UBIFS: start using hrtimers

UBIFS uses timers for write-buffer write-back. It is not
crucial for us to write-back exactly on time. We are fine
to write-back a little earlier or later. And this means

UBIFS: start using hrtimers

UBIFS uses timers for write-buffer write-back. It is not
crucial for us to write-back exactly on time. We are fine
to write-back a little earlier or later. And this means
we may optimize UBIFS timer so that it could be groped
with a close timer event, so that the CPU would not be
waken up just to do the write back. This is optimization
to lessen power consumption, which is important in
embedded devices UBIFS is used for.

hrtimers have a nice feature: they are effectively range
timers, and we may defind the soft and hard limits for
it. Standard timers do not have these feature. They may
only be made deferrable, but this means there is effectively
no hard limit. So, we will better use hrtimers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: add R/O compatibility

Now UBIFS is supported by u-boot. If we ever decide to change the
media format, then people will have to upgrade their u-boots to
mount new format images. However, very

UBIFS: add R/O compatibility

Now UBIFS is supported by u-boot. If we ever decide to change the
media format, then people will have to upgrade their u-boots to
mount new format images. However, very often it is possible to
preserve R/O forward-compatibility, even though the write
forward-compatibility is not preserved.

This patch introduces a new super-block field which stores the
R/O compatibility version.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: introduce a helpful variable

This patch introduces a helpful @c->idx_leb_size variable.
The patch also fixes some spelling issues and makes comments
use "LEB" instead of "eraseblock", which i

UBIFS: introduce a helpful variable

This patch introduces a helpful @c->idx_leb_size variable.
The patch also fixes some spelling issues and makes comments
use "LEB" instead of "eraseblock", which is more correct.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: improve find function interface

Make 'ubifs_find_free_space()' return offset where free space starts,
rather than the amount of free space. This is just more appropriat
for its caller.

Signe

UBIFS: improve find function interface

Make 'ubifs_find_free_space()' return offset where free space starts,
rather than the amount of free space. This is just more appropriat
for its caller.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: remove fast unmounting

This UBIFS feature has never worked properly, and it was a mistake
to add it because we simply have no use-cases. So, lets still accept
the fast_unmount mount option, b

UBIFS: remove fast unmounting

This UBIFS feature has never worked properly, and it was a mistake
to add it because we simply have no use-cases. So, lets still accept
the fast_unmount mount option, but ignore it. This does not change
much, because UBIFS commit in sync_fs anyway, and sync_fs is called
while unmounting.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: remount ro fixes

- preserve the idx_gc list - it will be needed in the same
state, should UBIFS be remounted rw again
- prevent remounting ro if we have switched to read only
mode (due to a f

UBIFS: remount ro fixes

- preserve the idx_gc list - it will be needed in the same
state, should UBIFS be remounted rw again
- prevent remounting ro if we have switched to read only
mode (due to a fatal error)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: fix no_chk_data_crc

When data CRC checking is disabled, UBIFS returns incorrect return
code from the 'try_read_node()' function (0 instead of 1, which means
CRC error), which make the caller

UBIFS: fix no_chk_data_crc

When data CRC checking is disabled, UBIFS returns incorrect return
code from the 'try_read_node()' function (0 instead of 1, which means
CRC error), which make the caller re-read the data node again, but using
a different code patch, so the second read is fine. Thus, we read the
same node twice. And the result of this is that UBIFS is slower
with no_chk_data_crc option than it is with chk_data_crc option.
This patches fixes the problem.

Reported-by: Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized

When mounting read-only the orphan area head is
not initialized. It must be initialized when
remounting read/write, but it was not. This patch
fixes t

UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized

When mounting read-only the orphan area head is
not initialized. It must be initialized when
remounting read/write, but it was not. This patch
fixes that.

[Artem: sorry, added comment tweaking noise]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks

We observe space corrupted accounting when re-mounting. So add some
debbugging checks to catch problems like this.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityut

UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks

We observe space corrupted accounting when re-mounting. So add some
debbugging checks to catch problems like this.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing

When freeing the c->idx_lebs list, we have to release the LEBs as well,
because we might be called from mount to read-only mode code. Otherwise
the LEBs stay taken foreve

UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing

When freeing the c->idx_lebs list, we have to release the LEBs as well,
because we might be called from mount to read-only mode code. Otherwise
the LEBs stay taken forever, which may cause problems when we re-mount
back ro RW mode.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: document dark_wm and dead_wm better

Just add more commentaries. Also some commentary fixes for
lprops flags.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: constify operations

Mark super, file, and inode operation structcutes with 'const'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix numerous spelling mistakes

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix checkpatch.pl warnings

These are mostly long lines and wrong indentation warning
fixes. But also there are two volatile variables and
checkpatch.pl complains about them:

WARNING: Use of

UBIFS: fix checkpatch.pl warnings

These are mostly long lines and wrong indentation warning
fixes. But also there are two volatile variables and
checkpatch.pl complains about them:

WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gc_seq;

WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gced_lnum;

Well, we anyway use smp_wmb() for c->gc_seq and c->gced_lnum, so
these 'volatile' modifiers can be just dropped.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: use nicer 64-bit math

Instead of using do_div(), use better primitives from
linux/math64.h.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix available blocks count

Take into account that 2 eraseblocks are never available because
they are reserved for the index. This gives more realistic count
of FS blocks.

To avoid future con

UBIFS: fix available blocks count

Take into account that 2 eraseblocks are never available because
they are reserved for the index. This gives more realistic count
of FS blocks.

To avoid future confusions like this, introduce a constant.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: various comment improvements and fixes

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: improve budgeting dump

Dump available space calculated by budgeting subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix section mismatch

This patch fixes the following section mismatch:

WARNING: fs/ubifs/ubifs.o(.init.text+0xec): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_module() to the functio

UBIFS: fix section mismatch

This patch fixes the following section mismatch:

WARNING: fs/ubifs/ubifs.o(.init.text+0xec): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_module() to the function .exit.text:ubifs_compressors_exit()

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: introduce LPT dump function

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: add debugfs support

We need to have a possibility to see various UBIFS variables
and ask UBIFS to dump various information. Debugfs is what
we need.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bi

UBIFS: add debugfs support

We need to have a possibility to see various UBIFS variables
and ask UBIFS to dump various information. Debugfs is what
we need.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: separate debugging fields out

Introduce a new data structure which contains all debugging
stuff inside. This is cleaner than having debugging stuff
directly in 'c'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bity

UBIFS: separate debugging fields out

Introduce a new data structure which contains all debugging
stuff inside. This is cleaner than having debugging stuff
directly in 'c'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: introduce compression mount options

It is very handy to be able to change default UBIFS compressor
via mount options. Introduce -o compr=<name> mount option support.
Currently only "none", "l

UBIFS: introduce compression mount options

It is very handy to be able to change default UBIFS compressor
via mount options. Introduce -o compr=<name> mount option support.
Currently only "none", "lzo" and "zlib" compressors are supported.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: use bit-fields to store compression type

Save a 4 bytes of RAM per 'struct inode' by stroring inode
compression type in bit-filed, instead of using 'int'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Ar

UBIFS: use bit-fields to store compression type

Save a 4 bytes of RAM per 'struct inode' by stroring inode
compression type in bit-filed, instead of using 'int'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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UBIFS: pre-allocate bulk-read buffer

To avoid memory allocation failure during bulk-read, pre-allocate
a bulk-read buffer, so that if there is only one bulk-reader at
a time, it would just use the p

UBIFS: pre-allocate bulk-read buffer

To avoid memory allocation failure during bulk-read, pre-allocate
a bulk-read buffer, so that if there is only one bulk-reader at
a time, it would just use the pre-allocated buffer and would not
do any memory allocation. However, if there are more than 1 bulk-
reader, then only one reader would use the pre-allocated buffer,
while the other reader would allocate the buffer for itself.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

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