[U-Boot] UBI problems on current u-boot

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi Holger,

On Monday 12 September 2011 19:16:33 Holger Brunck wrote:
> I have seen in mainline kernel this fix in the ubi layer:
> 
> commit b86a2c56e512f46d140a4bcb4e35e8a7d4a99a4b
> Author: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
> Date:   Sun May 24 14:13:34 2009 +0300
> 
>     UBI: do not switch to R/O mode on read errors
> 
>     This patch improves UBI errors handling. ATM UBI switches to
>     R/O mode when the WL worker fails to read the source PEB.
>     This means that the upper layers (e.g., UBIFS) has no
>     chances to unmap the erroneous PEB and fix the error.
>     This patch changes this behaviour and makes UBI put PEBs
>     like this into a separate RB-tree, thus preventing the
>     WL worker from hitting the same read errors again and
>     again.
> 
> [...]
> 
> And this sounds like the problem I see in u-boot.

Yes, very likely.

> But this patch is not
> easy to port onto u-boot because previously undergoing changes in the
> kernels ubi layer...

Correct. UBI has undergone many changes since the integration into U-Boot back 
in the end of 2008 (nearly 3 years ago now). Perhaps the best would be to re-
synch with the latest Linux UBI version. But this sounds like quite a lot of 
work as well...

Best regards,
Stefan

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