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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:23:55 +0200
From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:04 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> Boris,
> 
> On 05.09.2016 17:05, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > + * This function is called in case of a write failure and moves all good data
> > + * from the potentially bad physical eraseblock to a good physical eraseblock.
> > + * This function also writes the data which was not written due to the failure.
> > + * Returns 0 in case of success, and a negative error code in case of failure.
> > + * This function tries %UBI_IO_RETRIES before giving up.
> > + */
> > +static int recover_peb(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum, int vol_id, int lnum,
> > +		       const void *buf, int offset, int len)
> > +{
> > +	int err, idx = vol_id2idx(ubi, vol_id), tries;
> > +	struct ubi_volume *vol = ubi->volumes[idx];
> > +	struct ubi_vid_hdr *vid_hdr;
> > +
> > +	vid_hdr = ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(ubi, GFP_NOFS);
> > +	if (!vid_hdr)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	for (tries = 0; tries <= UBI_IO_RETRIES; tries++) {
> > +		err = try_recover_peb(vol, pnum, lnum, buf, offset, len,
> > +				      vid_hdr);
> > +		if (!err || err == -ENOSPC)
> > +			break;  
> 
> Why do you handle ENOSPC as fatal error? Since the loop is bound by UBI_IO_RETRIES
> IMHO we can retry also upon ENOSPC.

I was just trying to mimic the existing behavior: if ubi_wl_get_peb()
fails to return a free PEB it returns -ENOSPC, and the current
implementation does not retry in this case.

I also realize that we should not retry if the error happened when
reading from the source PEB.

Maybe we should have an extra 'bool *retry' parameter to let
recover_peb() know whether the operation should be retried or not.
What do you think?