linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] UBI: Implement bitrot checking

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Date:	Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:01:19 +0200
From:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dedekind1@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] UBI: Implement bitrot checking

Hi Richard,

After the 'coding style related'/'useless' comments, now comes a real
question related to the approach you've taken :-).

On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:13:17 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> wrote:

[...]
> +
> +/**
> + * ubi_wl_trigger_bitrot_check - triggers a re-read of all physical erase
> + * blocks.
> + * @ubi: UBI device description object
> + */
> +void ubi_wl_trigger_bitrot_check(struct ubi_device *ubi)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	struct ubi_wl_entry *e;
> +
> +	ubi_msg(ubi, "Running a full read check");
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ubi->peb_count; i++) {
> +		spin_lock(&ubi->wl_lock);
> +		e = ubi->lookuptbl[i];
> +		spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
> +		if (e) {
> +			atomic_inc(&ubi->bit_rot_work);
> +			schedule_bitrot_check(ubi, e);
> +		}
> +	}

Do we really need to create a ubi_work per PEB ?
Couldn't we create a single work being rescheduled inside the worker
function (after updating the ubi_wl_entry of course).

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious that you'll probably
point out ;-).


-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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