Re: [PATCH 4/4] UBI: Implement bitrot checking

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Am 12.04.2015 um 21:20 schrieb Boris Brezillon:
> Unless I'm missing something, it should be pretty easy to implement:
> adding the following lines at the end of bitrot_check_worker() should do
> the trick
> 
> 	if (e->pnum + 1 < ubi->peb_count) {
> 		wl_wrk->e = ubi->lookuptbl[e->pnum + 1];
> 		__schedule_ubi_work(ubi, wl_wrk);
> 	} else {
> 		atomic_dec(&ubi->bit_rot_work);
> 	}
> 	

It will suffer from the same race issue as my current approach.
While e is scheduled another worker could free it in case of an fatal
error.

>> I'd like to avoid works which schedule again other works.
>> In the current way it is clear where the work is scheduled and how much.
> 
> Yes, but the memory consumption induced by this approach can be pretty
> big on modern NAND chips (on 32 bit platforms, ubi_work is 32 octets
> large, and on modern NANDs you often have 4096 blocks, so a UBI device
> of 4000 block is pretty common => 4000 * 32 = 125 KiB).

While I agree that consuming memory is not very nice I don't think that 125KiB
is a big deal.

> For standard wear leveling requests, using a ubi_work per request is
> sensible since you can't know in advance which block will be queued for
> wear-leveling operation next time.
> In your case, you're scanning all blocks in ascending order, which
> makes it a good candidate for this 'one work for all bitrot checks'
> approach.

The good news is that I have an idea to solve both problems the race and
the memory issue. It should be pretty easy to implement.
Patches will materialize in a few days.

Thanks,
//richard