UBI: use vmalloc for large buffers
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1 /*
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18 * Author: Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
21 /* Here we keep miscellaneous functions which are used all over the UBI code */
23 #include "ubi.h"
25 /**
26 * calc_data_len - calculate how much real data is stored in a buffer.
27 * @ubi: UBI device description object
28 * @buf: a buffer with the contents of the physical eraseblock
29 * @length: the buffer length
31 * This function calculates how much "real data" is stored in @buf and returnes
32 * the length. Continuous 0xFF bytes at the end of the buffer are not
33 * considered as "real data".
35 int ubi_calc_data_len(const struct ubi_device *ubi, const void *buf,
36 int length)
38 int i;
40 ubi_assert(length % ubi->min_io_size == 0);
42 for (i = length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
43 if (((const uint8_t *)buf)[i] != 0xFF)
44 break;
46 /* The resulting length must be aligned to the minimum flash I/O size */
47 length = ALIGN(i + 1, ubi->min_io_size);
48 return length;
51 /**
52 * ubi_check_volume - check the contents of a static volume.
53 * @ubi: UBI device description object
54 * @vol_id: ID of the volume to check
56 * This function checks if static volume @vol_id is corrupted by fully reading
57 * it and checking data CRC. This function returns %0 if the volume is not
58 * corrupted, %1 if it is corrupted and a negative error code in case of
59 * failure. Dynamic volumes are not checked and zero is returned immediately.
61 int ubi_check_volume(struct ubi_device *ubi, int vol_id)
63 void *buf;
64 int err = 0, i;
65 struct ubi_volume *vol = ubi->volumes[vol_id];
67 if (vol->vol_type != UBI_STATIC_VOLUME)
68 return 0;
70 buf = vmalloc(vol->usable_leb_size);
71 if (!buf)
72 return -ENOMEM;
74 for (i = 0; i < vol->used_ebs; i++) {
75 int size;
77 if (i == vol->used_ebs - 1)
78 size = vol->last_eb_bytes;
79 else
80 size = vol->usable_leb_size;
82 err = ubi_eba_read_leb(ubi, vol_id, i, buf, 0, size, 1);
83 if (err) {
84 if (err == -EBADMSG)
85 err = 1;
86 break;
90 vfree(buf);
91 return err;
94 /**
95 * ubi_calculate_rsvd_pool - calculate how many PEBs must be reserved for bad
96 * eraseblock handling.
97 * @ubi: UBI device description object
99 void ubi_calculate_reserved(struct ubi_device *ubi)
101 ubi->beb_rsvd_level = ubi->good_peb_count/100;
102 ubi->beb_rsvd_level *= CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE;
103 if (ubi->beb_rsvd_level < MIN_RESEVED_PEBS)
104 ubi->beb_rsvd_level = MIN_RESEVED_PEBS;