JFFS: free_size == 0 after mounting

JFFS: free_size == 0 after mounting

[David Vrabel]

Hi,

I'm using the latest CVS JFFS and get endless
   jffs_garbage_collect_thread(): free_size == 0. This is BAD.
messages after mounting.

I have images of the flash if anyone is interested.

David Vrabel



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Re: JFFS: free_size == 0 after mounting

[David Woodhouse]

dvrabel@arcom.co.uk said:
>  I'm using the latest CVS JFFS and get endless
>    jffs_garbage_collect_thread(): free_size == 0. This is BAD.
> messages after mounting.

> I have images of the flash if anyone is interested. 

Thanks. cvs update and break it again :)

Index: intrep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mtd/fs/jffs/intrep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.67
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -r1.67 -r1.68
--- intrep.c	2000/08/22 09:32:28	1.67
+++ intrep.c	2000/08/23 11:27:35	1.68
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  * (at your option) any later version.
  *
- * $Id: intrep.c,v 1.67 2000/08/22 09:32:28 dwmw2 Exp $
+ * $Id: intrep.c,v 1.68 2000/08/23 11:27:35 dwmw2 Exp $
  *
  * Ported to Linux 2.3.x and MTD:
  * Copyright (C) 2000  Alexander Larsson (alex@cendio.se), Cendio Systems AB
@@ -644,6 +644,16 @@
 			   a single kernel thread will fix the original problem.
 			*/
 			if ((__u32) pos % fmc->sector_size) {
+				/* If there was free space in previous 
+				   sectors, don't mark that dirty too - 
+				   only from the beginning of this sector
+				   (or from start) 
+				*/
+				if (start < (pos & ~(fmc->sector_size-1))) {
+					D1(printk("Reducing start to 0x%x from 0x%x\n", pos & ~(fmc->sector_size-1), start));
+					start = pos & ~(fmc->sector_size-1);
+				}
+				D1(printk("Dirty space: 0x%x for 0x%x bytes\n", start, (pos - start)));
 				jffs_fmalloced(fmc, (__u32) start,
 					       (__u32) (pos - start), 0);
 			}


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dwmw2




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