[JFFS2] print a message when marking bad block

New bad eraseblock is an event which is important enough to be printed
about.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@no

[JFFS2] print a message when marking bad block

New bad eraseblock is an event which is important enough to be printed
about.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[JFFS2] Fix writebuffer recovery in the first page of a block

For the case when nand_write_page fail with -EIO for the first page in an
eraseblock, jffs2_wbuf_recover ends up producing a

[JFFS2] Fix writebuffer recovery in the first page of a block

For the case when nand_write_page fail with -EIO for the first page in an
eraseblock, jffs2_wbuf_recover ends up producing a BUG in jffs2_block_refile
as jeb->first_node is not yet set up (it's set up later in jffs2_wbuf_recover).
This BUG is not really a bug; it's just jffs2_wbuf_recover calling
jffs2_block_refile with the wrong second parameter.
This patch takes care of this situation.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[JFFS2] printk warning fixes

fs/jffs2/wbuf.c: In function 'jffs2_check_oob_empty':
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:993: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/j

[JFFS2] printk warning fixes

fs/jffs2/wbuf.c: In function 'jffs2_check_oob_empty':
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:993: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:993: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c: In function 'jffs2_check_nand_cleanmarker':
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:1036: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:1036: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c: In function 'jffs2_write_nand_cleanmarker':
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:1062: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:1062: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[JFFS2] Use MTD_OOB_AUTO to automatically place cleanmarker on NAND

Nowadays MTD supports an MTD_OOB_AUTO option which allows users
to access free bytes in NAND's OOB as a contiguous buf

[JFFS2] Use MTD_OOB_AUTO to automatically place cleanmarker on NAND

Nowadays MTD supports an MTD_OOB_AUTO option which allows users
to access free bytes in NAND's OOB as a contiguous buffer, although
it may be highly discontinuous.

This patch teaches JFFS2 to use this nice feature instead of the
old MTD_OOB_PLACE option. This for example caused problems with
OneNAND. Now JFFS2 does not care how are the free bytes situated.

This may change position of the clean marker on some flashes,
but this is not a problem. JFFS2 will just re-erase the empty
eraseblocks and write the new (correct) clean marker.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

[PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[MTD] [NAND] remove len/ooblen confusion.

As was discussed between Ricard Wanderlöf, David Woodhouse, Artem
Bityutskiy and me, the current API for reading/writing OOB is confusing.

[MTD] [NAND] remove len/ooblen confusion.

As was discussed between Ricard Wanderlöf, David Woodhouse, Artem
Bityutskiy and me, the current API for reading/writing OOB is confusing.

The thing that introduces confusion is the need to specify ops.len
together with ops.ooblen for reads/writes that concern only OOB not data
area. So, ops.len is overloaded: when ops.datbuf != NULL it serves to
specify the length of the data read, and when ops.datbuf == NULL, it
serves to specify the full OOB read length.

The patch inlined below is the slightly updated version of the previous
patch serving the same purpose, but with the new Artem's comments taken
into account.

Artem, BTW, thanks a lot for your valuable input!

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[PATCH] fs: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.

Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Joe

[PATCH] fs: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.

Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Cc: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[MTD] NAND Signal that a bitflip was corrected by ECC

Return -EUCLEAN on read when a bitflip was detected and corrected, so the
clients can react and eventually copy the affected block t

[MTD] NAND Signal that a bitflip was corrected by ECC

Return -EUCLEAN on read when a bitflip was detected and corrected, so the
clients can react and eventually copy the affected block to a spare one.
Make all in kernel users aware of the change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[MTD] Rework the out of band handling completely

Hopefully the last iteration on this!

The handling of out of band data on NAND was accompanied by tons of fruitless
discussions

[MTD] Rework the out of band handling completely

Hopefully the last iteration on this!

The handling of out of band data on NAND was accompanied by tons of fruitless
discussions and halfarsed patches to make it work for a particular
problem. Sufficiently annoyed by I all those "I know it better" mails and the
resonable amount of discarded "it solves my problem" patches, I finally decided
to go for the big rework. After removing the _ecc variants of mtd read/write
functions the solution to satisfy the various requirements was to refactor the
read/write _oob functions in mtd.

The major change is that read/write_oob now takes a pointer to an operation
descriptor structure "struct mtd_oob_ops".instead of having a function with at
least seven arguments.

read/write_oob which should probably renamed to a more descriptive name, can do
the following tasks:

- read/write out of band data
- read/write data content and out of band data
- read/write raw data content and out of band data (ecc disabled)

struct mtd_oob_ops has a mode field, which determines the oob handling mode.

Aside of the MTD_OOB_RAW mode, which is intended to be especially for
diagnostic purposes and some internal functions e.g. bad block table creation,
the other two modes are for mtd clients:

MTD_OOB_PLACE puts/gets the given oob data exactly to/from the place which is
described by the ooboffs and ooblen fields of the mtd_oob_ops strcuture. It's
up to the caller to make sure that the byte positions are not used by the ECC
placement algorithms.

MTD_OOB_AUTO puts/gets the given oob data automaticaly to/from the places in
the out of band area which are described by the oobfree tuples in the ecclayout
data structre which is associated to the devicee.

The decision whether data plus oob or oob only handling is done depends on the
setting of the datbuf member of the data structure. When datbuf == NULL then
the internal read/write_oob functions are selected, otherwise the read/write
data routines are invoked.

Tested on a few platforms with all variants. Please be aware of possible
regressions for your particular device / application scenario

Disclaimer: Any whining will be ignored from those who just contributed "hot
air blurb" and never sat down to tackle the underlying problem of the mess in
the NAND driver grown over time and the big chunk of work to fix up the
existing users. The problem was not the holiness of the existing MTD
interfaces. The problems was the lack of time to go for the big overhaul. It's
easy to add more mess to the existing one, but it takes alot of effort to go
for a real solution.

Improvements and bugfixes are welcome!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[MTD] NAND Replace oobinfo by ecclayout

The nand_oobinfo structure is not fitting the newer error correction
demands anymore. Replace it by struct nand_ecclayout and fixup the users

[MTD] NAND Replace oobinfo by ecclayout

The nand_oobinfo structure is not fitting the newer error correction
demands anymore. Replace it by struct nand_ecclayout and fixup the users
all over the place. Keep the nand_oobinfo based ioctl for user space
compability reasons.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[MTD] NAND Consolidate oobinfo handling

The info structure for out of band data was copied into
the mtd structure. Make it a pointer and remove the ability
to set it from userspace.

[MTD] NAND Consolidate oobinfo handling

The info structure for out of band data was copied into
the mtd structure. Make it a pointer and remove the ability
to set it from userspace. The position of ecc bytes is
defined by the hardware and should not be changed by software.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[JFFS2] Fix wbuf recovery of f->metadata->raw node.

A data node might not be in the fraglist; it could be f->metadata.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

[JFFS2] Switch to using an array of jffs2_raw_node_refs instead of a list.

This allows us to drop another pointer from the struct jffs2_raw_node_ref,
shrinking it to 8 bytes on 32-bit ma

[JFFS2] Switch to using an array of jffs2_raw_node_refs instead of a list.

This allows us to drop another pointer from the struct jffs2_raw_node_ref,
shrinking it to 8 bytes on 32-bit machines (if the TEST_TOTLEN) paranoia
check is turned off, which will be committed soon).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[JFFS2] Add 'jeb' argument to jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs()

Preallocation of refs is shortly going to be a per-eraseblock thing,
rather than per-filesystem. Add the required argument to

[JFFS2] Add 'jeb' argument to jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs()

Preallocation of refs is shortly going to be a per-eraseblock thing,
rather than per-filesystem. Add the required argument to the function.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/~gleixner/mtd-nand-2.6.git

[JFFS2] Reduce visibility of raw_node_ref to upper layers of JFFS2 code.

As the first step towards eliminating the ref->next_phys member and saving
memory by using an _array_ of struct j

[JFFS2] Reduce visibility of raw_node_ref to upper layers of JFFS2 code.

As the first step towards eliminating the ref->next_phys member and saving
memory by using an _array_ of struct jffs2_raw_node_ref per eraseblock,
stop the write functions from allocating their own refs; have them just
_reserve_ the appropriate number instead. Then jffs2_link_node_ref() can
just fill them in.

Use a linked list of pre-allocated refs in the superblock, for now. Once
we switch to an array, it'll just be a case of extending that array.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[MTD] Remove read/write _ecc variants

MTD clients are agnostic of FLASH which needs ECC suppport.
Remove the functions and fixup the callers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tgl

[MTD] Remove read/write _ecc variants

MTD clients are agnostic of FLASH which needs ECC suppport.
Remove the functions and fixup the callers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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Merge branch 'master' of /home/tglx/work/kernel/git/mtd-2.6/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

[JFFS2] Simplify writebuffer handling

The writev based write buffer implementation was far to complex as
in most use cases the write buffer had to be handled anyway.
Simplify the wri

[JFFS2] Simplify writebuffer handling

The writev based write buffer implementation was far to complex as
in most use cases the write buffer had to be handled anyway.
Simplify the write buffer handling and use mtd->write instead.

From extensive testing no performance impact has been noted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[JFFS2] Remove flash offset argument from various functions.

We don't need the upper layers to deal with the physical offset. It's
_always_ c->nextblock->offset + c->sector_size - c->nex

[JFFS2] Remove flash offset argument from various functions.

We don't need the upper layers to deal with the physical offset. It's
_always_ c->nextblock->offset + c->sector_size - c->nextblock->free_size
so we might as well just let the actual write functions deal with that.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[MTD] Merge STMicro NOR_ECC code with Intel Sibley code

In 2002, STMicro started producing NOR flashes with internal ECC protection
for small blocks (8 or 16 bytes). Support for those f

[MTD] Merge STMicro NOR_ECC code with Intel Sibley code

In 2002, STMicro started producing NOR flashes with internal ECC protection
for small blocks (8 or 16 bytes). Support for those flashes was added by me.
In 2005, Intel Sibley flashes copied this strategy and Nico added support for
those. Merge the code for both.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>

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[MTD] Introduce writesize

At least two flashes exists that have the concept of a minimum write unit,
similar to NAND pages, but no other NAND characteristics. Therefore, rename
the

[MTD] Introduce writesize

At least two flashes exists that have the concept of a minimum write unit,
similar to NAND pages, but no other NAND characteristics. Therefore, rename
the minimum write unit to "writesize" for all flashes, including NAND.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>

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[JFFS2] Extend jffs2_link_node_ref() to link into per-inode list too.

Let's avoid the potential for forgetting to set ref->next_in_ino, by doing
it within jffs2_link_node_ref() instead.

[JFFS2] Extend jffs2_link_node_ref() to link into per-inode list too.

Let's avoid the potential for forgetting to set ref->next_in_ino, by doing
it within jffs2_link_node_ref() instead.

This highlights the ugliness of what we're currently doing with
xattr_datum and xattr_ref structures -- we should find a nicer way of
dealing with that.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

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[JFFS2] Initialise ref->next_in_ino when marking dirty space in wbuf flush

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>