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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: hujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: add ubi_err() to report the failure of leb read
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:58:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548FF41F.3030902@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548FE51D.60707@huawei.com>

Am 16.12.2014 um 08:54 schrieb hujianyang:
> If an error occur while reading from PEBs, for example, an ECC error,
> ubi_io_read() will print some error messages. But it's not enough for
> debugging. These messages don't show the mapping info for a read from
> UBIFS layer.
> 
> Although UBIFS will soon print its error messages after catching the
> return value from UBI layer,  multi-path reading will confuse the
> relationship between LEBs and PEBs showed by these messages.
> 
> This patch adds an ubi_err() to report reading errors in the function
> ubi_eba_read_leb(). The mapping info of LEB and PEB is showed by
> this error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c
> index b698534..b4e69e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c
> @@ -477,6 +477,8 @@ out_free:
>  	ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
>  out_unlock:
>  	leb_read_unlock(ubi, vol_id, lnum);
> +	ubi_err(ubi, "err %d while reading %d bytes from offset %d of LEB %d:%d, PEB %d",
> +		err, len, offset, vol_id, lnum, pnum);

This label will also be reached if we run out of memory.
Please make sure that the new ubi_err() can only be reached in case of an MTD error.
Also make sure that the function prints only one message and not two.

Thanks,
//richard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-16  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-16  7:54 [PATCH] UBI: add ubi_err() to report the failure of leb read hujianyang
2014-12-16  8:02 ` hujianyang
2014-12-16  9:21   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-16  9:52     ` hujianyang
2014-12-16  9:57       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-16 10:34         ` hujianyang
2014-12-16  8:58 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2014-12-16 10:12   ` hujianyang

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