linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get bad_peb

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:35:23 +0200
From:	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>
To:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:	dedekind1@...il.com, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get bad_peb_limit

2012/8/16 Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>:
> Hi Artem, Richard,
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:08:51 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
>> 1. Invalid blocks are block that contain one or more bad bits beyond
>> ECC.
>
> I would remove this one sentence from the log, it is misleading; invalid
> blocks are not necessarily related to ECC.
I agree (even if this sentence is from a nand datasheet !)

>
>>               if (CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT > 0) {
>> -                     int percent = CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT;
>> -                     int limit = mult_frac(ubi->peb_count, percent, 100);
>> +                     int per1024 = CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT;
>> +                     int limit, device_pebs;
>> +                     uint64_t device_size;
>> +
>> +                     /*
>> +                      * Here we are using size of the entire flash chip and
>> +                      * not just the MTD partition size because the maximum
>> +                      * number of bad eraseblocks is a percentage of the
>> +                      * whole device and bad eraseblocks are not fairly
>> +                      * distributed over the flash chip. So the worst case
>> +                      * is that all the bad eraseblocks of the chip are in
>> +                      * the MTD partition we are attaching (ubi->mtd).
>> +                      */
>> +                     device_size = mtd_get_device_size(ubi->mtd);
>> +                     device_pebs = mtd_div_by_eb(device_size, ubi->mtd);
>> +                     limit = mult_frac(device_pebs, per1024, 1024);
>>
>>                       /* Round it up */
>> -                     if (mult_frac(limit, 100, percent) < ubi->peb_count)
>> +                     if (mult_frac(limit, 1024, per1024) < ubi->peb_count)
>
> Oops... should be:
>
> +                       if (mult_frac(limit, 1024, per1024) < device_pebs)
>
> Regards,
> Shmulik
Ok, I'll change that, may be in a separate patch, as it's a bug fix.
I'll add your signoff.

thanks !


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