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An unsigned long long is being formatted with %lld instead of the unsigned
version %llu. Fix this.
Clean up cppcheck warning:
%lld in format string (no. 1) requires 'long long' but the argument type
is 'unsigned long long'.
Fixes: a62c24d75529 ("mtd: part: Add sysfs variable for offset of partition")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Commit 33f45c44d68b ("mtd: Do not allow MTD devices with inconsistent
erase properties") introduced a check to make sure ->erasesize and
->_erase values are consistent with the MTD_NO_ERASE flag.
This patch did not take the 0 bytes partition case into account which
can happen when the defined partition is outside the flash device memory
range. Fix that by setting the partition erasesize to the parent
erasesize.
Fixes: 33f45c44d68b ("mtd: Do not allow MTD devices with inconsistent erase properties")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
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Commit 2b6f0090a333 ("mtd: Check add_mtd_device() ret code") contained
a leftover of the debug session that led to this bug fix. Remove this
pr_info().
Fixes: 2b6f0090a333 ("mtd: Check add_mtd_device() ret code")
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
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add_mtd_device() can fail. We should always check its return value
and gracefully handle the failure case. Fix the call sites where this
not done (in mtdpart.c) and add a __must_check attribute to the
prototype to avoid this kind of mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
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When checking for alignment mtd should check absolute offsets. It's
important for subpartitions as it doesn't make sense to check their
relative addresses.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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When allocating a new partition mtd subsystem runs internal tests in the
allocate_partition(). They may result in modifying specified flags (e.g.
dropping some /features/ like write access).
Those constraints don't have to be necessary true for subpartitions. It
may happen parent partition isn't block aligned (effectively disabling
write access) while subpartition may fit blocks nicely. In such case all
checks should be run again (starting with original flags value).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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While at first mtd_part_of_parse() would just call
of_get_chil_by_name(), it has been patched to deal with sub-partitions
and will now directly manipulate the node returned by mtd_get_of_node()
if the MTD device is a partition.
A of_node_put() was a bit below in the code, to balance the
of_get_child_by_name(). However, despite its name, mtd_get_of_node()
does not take a reference on the OF node. It is a simple helper hiding
some pointer logic to retrieve the OF node related to an MTD
device.
The direct effect of such unbalanced reference counting is visible by
rmmod'ing any module that would have added MTD partitions:
OF: ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on <of_path_to_partition>
As it seems normal to get a reference on the OF node during the
of_property_for_each_string() that follows, add a call to
of_node_get() when relevant.
Fixes: 76a832254ab0 ("mtd: partitions: use DT info for parsing partitions with "compatible" prop")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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So far only flash devices could be described in DT regarding partitions
parsing. That could be done with "partitions" subnode and a proper
"compatible" string.
Some devices may use hierarchical (multi-level) layouts and may mix used
layouts (fixed and dynamic). Describing that in DT is done by specifying
"compatible" for DT-represented partition plus optionally more
properties and/or subnodes.
To support such layouts each DT partition has to be checked for
additional description.
Please note this implementation will work in parallel with support for
partition type specified for non-DT setups. That already works since
commit 1a0915be1926 ("mtd: partitions: add support for partition
parsers").
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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This commit slightly simplifies the code. Every parse_mtd_partitions()
caller (out of two existing ones) had to add partitions & cleanup parser
on its own. This moves that responsibility into the function.
That change also allows dropping struct mtd_partitions argument.
There is one minor behavior change caused by this cleanup. If
parse_mtd_partitions() fails to add partitions (add_mtd_partitions()
return an error) then mtd_device_parse_register() will still try to
add (register) fallback partitions. It's a real corner case affecting
one of uncommon error paths and shouldn't cause any harm.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Type "ofpart" means that OF should be used to get partitioning info and
this driver supports "fixed-partitions" binding only. Renaming it should
lead to less confusion especially when parsers for new compatibility
strings start to appear.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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In order to properly support compatibility strings as described in the
bindings/mtd/partition.txt "ofpart" type should be treated as an
indication for looking into OF. MTD should check "compatible" property
and search for a matching parser rather than blindly trying the one
supporting "fixed-partitions".
It also means that existing "fixed-partitions" parser should get renamed
to use a more meaningful name.
This commit achievies that aim by introducing a new mtd_part_of_parse().
It works by looking for a matching parser for every string in the
"compatibility" property (starting with the most specific one).
Please note that driver-specified parsers still take a precedence. It's
assumed that driver providing a parser type has a good reason for that
(e.g. having platform data with device-specific info). Also doing
otherwise could break existing setups. The same applies to using default
parsers (including "cmdlinepart") as some overwrite DT data with cmdline
argument.
Partition parsers can now provide an of_match_table to enable
flash<-->parser matching via device tree as documented in the
mtd/partition.txt.
This support is currently limited to built-in parsers as it uses
request_module() and friends. This should be sufficient for most cases
though as compiling parsers as modules isn't a common choice.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Tested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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MTD users are no longer checking erase_info->state to determine if the
erase operation failed or succeeded. Moreover, mtd_erase_callback() is
now a NOP.
We can safely get rid of all mtd_erase_callback() calls and all
erase_info->state assignments. While at it, get rid of the
erase_info->state field, all MTD_ERASE_XXX definitions and the
mtd_erase_callback() function.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Address a few coding style issues (reported by Miquel)
- Remove comments that are no longer valid (reported by Miquel)
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->fail_addr and ->addr can be updated no matter the result of
parent->_erase(), we just need to remove the code doing the same thing
in mtd_erase_callback() to avoid adjusting those fields twice.
Note that this can be done because all MTD users have been converted to
not pass an erase_info->callback() and are thus only taking the
->addr_fail and ->addr fields into account after part_erase() has
returned.
While we're at it, get rid of the erase_info->mtd field which was only
needed to let mtd_erase_callback() get the partition device back.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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None of the mtd->_erase() implementations work in an asynchronous manner,
so let's simplify MTD users that call mtd_erase(). All they need to do
is check the value returned by mtd_erase() and assume that != 0 means
failure.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Some of the check done in custom ->_read/write_oob() implementation are
already done by the core (in mtd_check_oob_ops()).
Suggested-by: Peter Pan <peterpansjtu@gmail.com>
[Remove redundant checks done in mtdpart.c]
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
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Some MTD sublayers/drivers are implementing ->_read/write_oob() and
provide dummy wrappers for their ->_read/write() implementations.
Let the core handle this case instead of duplicating the logic.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
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part_read() and part_read_oob() were counting ECC failures and
bitflips differently. Adjust part_read_oob() to mimic what is done in
part_read(). This is needed to use ->_read_oob() as a fallback when
when ->_read() is not implemented.
Note that bitflips and ECC failure accounting on MTD partitions is
broken by design, because nothing prevents concurrent accesses to the
underlying master MTD device between the moment we save the stats in a
local variable and the moment master->_read[_oob]() returns. It's not
something that can easily be fixed, so leave it like that for now.
Suggested-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
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It is now unused.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Commit 1eeef2d7483a ("mtd: handle partitioning on devices with 0
erasesize") introduced a regression on heterogeneous erase region
devices. Alignment of the partition was tested against the master
eraseblock size which can be bigger than the slave one, thus leading
to some partitions being marked as read-only.
Update wr_alignment to match this slave erasesize after this erasesize
has been determined by picking the biggest erasesize of all the regions
embedded in the MTD partition.
Reported-by: Mathias Thore <Mathias.Thore@infinera.com>
Fixes: 1eeef2d7483a ("mtd: handle partitioning on devices with 0 erasesize")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Mathias Thore <Mathias.Thore@infinera.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathias Thore <Mathias.Thore@infinera.com>
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Some recent patches caused churn around this area, and checkpatch
noticed the existing issues.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Some devices have partitions that are kind of containers with extra
subpartitions / volumes instead of e.g. a simple filesystem data. To
support such cases we need to first create normal flash device
partitions and then take care of these special ones.
It's very common case for home routers. Depending on the vendor there
are formats like TRX, Seama, TP-Link, WRGG & more. All of them are used
to embed few partitions into a single one / single firmware file.
Ideally all vendors would use some well documented / standardized format
like UBI (and some probably start doing so), but there are still
countless devices on the market using these poor vendor specific
formats.
This patch extends MTD subsystem by allowing to specify list of parsers
that should be tried for a given partition. Supporting such poor formats
is highly unlikely to be the top priority so these changes try to
minimize maintenance cost to the minimum. It reuses existing code for
these new parsers and just adds a one property and one new function.
This implementation requires setting partition parsers in a flash
parser. A proper change of bcm47xxpart will follow and in the future we
will hopefully also find a solution for doing it with ofpart
("fixed-partitions").
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Some flash device partitions can be containers with extra subpartitions
(volumes). All callbacks are already capable of this additional level of
indirection.
This patch makes sure we always display subpartitions using a tree
structure and takes care of deleting subpartitions when parent gets
removed.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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This prepares mtd subsystem for the new feature: subpartitions. In some
cases flash device partition can be a container with extra subpartitions
(volumes).
So far there was a flat structure implemented. One master (flash device)
could be partitioned into few partitions. Every partition got its master
and it was enough to get things running.
To support subpartitions we need to store pointer to the parent for each
partition. This is required to implement more natural tree structure and
handle all recursion and offsets calculation.
To make code consistent this patch renamed "master" to the "parent" in
places where we can be dealing with subpartitions.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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When support for sysfs "offset" file was added it missed to update the
del_mtd_partitions function. It deletes partitions just like
mtd_del_partition does so both should also take care of removing sysfs
files.
This change moves sysfs_remove_files call to the shared function to fix
this issue.
Fixes: a62c24d755291 ("mtd: part: Add sysfs variable for offset of partition")
Cc: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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There are two similar functions handling deletion. One handles single
partition and another the whole MTD flash device. They share (duplicate)
some code so it makes sense to add a small helper for that part.
Function del_mtd_partitions has been moved a bit to keep all deleting
stuff together.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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This code is going to be reused for parsers matched using OF so let's
factor it out to make this easier.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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erasesize is meaningful for flash devices but for SRAM there is no
concept of an erase block so erasesize is set to 0. When partitioning
these devices instead of ensuring partitions fall on erasesize
boundaries we ensure they fall on writesize boundaries.
Helped-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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The user visible change here is that mtd partitions get an of_node link
in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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If implemented, 'max_bad_blocks' returns the maximum number of bad
blocks to reserve for a MTD. An implementation for NAND is coming soon.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@ni.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electron.com>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Kernel source files need not include <linux/kconfig.h> explicitly
because the top Makefile forces to include it with:
-include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h
This commit removes explicit includes except the following:
* arch/s390/include/asm/facilities_src.h
* tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/kernel.h
These two are used for host programs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473656164-11929-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduction of the MTD pairing scheme concept.
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If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device()
and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions
will never issue the registered callbacks.
Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down.
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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MLC and TLC NAND devices are using NAND cells exposing more than one bit,
but instead of attaching all the bits in a given cell to a single NAND
page, each bit is usually attached to a different page. This concept is
called 'page pairing', and has significant impacts on the flash storage
usage.
The main problem showed by these devices is that interrupting a page
program operation may not only corrupt the page we are programming
but also the page it is paired with, hence the need to expose to MTD
users the pairing scheme information.
The pairing APIs allows one to query pairing information attached to a
given page (here called wunit), or the other way around (the wunit
pointed by pairing information).
It also provides several helpers to help the conversion between absolute
offsets and wunits, and query the number of pairing groups.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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ECC layout definitions are currently exposed using the nand_ecclayout
struct which embeds oobfree and eccpos arrays with predefined size.
This approach was acceptable when NAND chips were providing relatively
small OOB regions, but MLC and TLC now provide OOB regions of several
hundreds of bytes, which implies a non negligible overhead for everybody
even those who only need to support legacy NANDs.
Create an mtd_ooblayout_ops interface providing the same functionality
(expose the ECC and oobfree layout) without the need for this huge
structure.
The mtd->ecclayout is now deprecated and should be replaced by the
equivalent mtd_ooblayout_ops. In the meantime we provide a wrapper around
the ->ecclayout field to ease migration to this new model.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Use the mtd_set_ecclayout() helper instead of directly assigning the
mtd->ecclayout field.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Currently, all MTD drivers/sublayers exposing an OOB area are
doing the same kind of test to extract the available OOB size
based on the mtd_info and mtd_oob_ops structures.
Move this common logic into an inline function and make use of it.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Suggested-by: Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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If partition parsers need to clean up their resources, we shouldn't
assume that all memory will fit in a single kmalloc() that the caller
can kfree(). We should allow the parser to provide a proper cleanup
routine.
Note that this means we need to keep a hold on the parser's module for a
bit longer, and release it later with mtd_part_parser_put().
Alongside this, define a default callback that we'll automatically use
if the parser doesn't provide one, so we can still retain the old
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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For some of the core partitioning code, it helps to keep info about the
parsed partition (and who parsed them) together in one place.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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The use of kmemdup() complicates the error handling a bit. We don't
actually need to allocate new memory, since this reference is treated as
const, and it is copied into new memory by the partition registration
code anyway. So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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We're going to reuse put_partition_parser(), so let's fix up the prefix
naming a bit, to hopefully be more consistent. Also make convert to a
true C function instead of a macro.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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We can guard against reorganization of struct mtd_part by using
container_of(). We can also make sure we're using the right pointer
types by making this a static inline function instead of a macro.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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This can help eliminate some boilerplate by generating the module_init()
and module_exit() functions, and by automatically assigning the module
owner.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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It's easier to guarantee we've cleared out all unused fields with
memset() than by manually initializing each field.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Due to wrong assumption in ofpart ofpart fails on Exynos on SPI chips
with no partitions because the subnode containing controller data
confuses the ofpart parser.
Thus compiling in ofpart support automatically fails probing any SPI NOR
flash without partitions on Exynos.
Compiling in a partitioning scheme should not cause probe of otherwise
valid device to fail.
Instead, let's do the following:
* try parsers until one succeeds
* if no parser succeeds, report the first error we saw
* even in the failure case, allow MTD to probe, with fallback
partitions or no partitions at all -- the master device will still be
registered
Issue report and comments initially by Michal Suchanek.
Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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The probe of a mtd device can fail when a partition parser returns
error. The failure due to partition parsing can be quite mysterious when
multiple partitioning schemes are compiled in and any of them can fail
the probe.
Add debug prints which show what parsers were tried and what they
returned.
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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If we fail to allocate a partition structure in the middle of the partition
creation process, the already allocated partitions are never removed, which
means they are still present in the partition list and their resources are
never freed.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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This patch makes MTD dynamic partitioning more flexible by removing
overlap checks for dynamic partitions. I don't see any particular
reason why overlapping dynamic partitions should be prohibited while
static partitions are allowed to overlap freely.
The checks previously had an off-by-one error, where 'end' should be
one less than what it is currently set at, and adding partitions out of
increasing order will fail. Disabling the checks resolves this issue.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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This patch makes a sysfs variable called 'offset' on each partition
which contains the offset in bytes from the beginning of the master
device that the partition starts.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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For many use cases, it helps to have a device node for the entire
MTD device as well as device nodes for the individual partitions.
For example, this allows querying the entire device's properties.
A common idiom is to create an additional partition which spans
over the whole device.
This patch makes a config option, CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER,
which makes the master partition present even when the device is
partitioned. This isn't turned on by default since it presents
a backwards-incompatible device numbering.
The patch also makes the parent of a partition device be the master,
if the config flag is set, now that the master is a full device.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.
Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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