Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760636Ab2EPUxw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 16:53:52 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:47834 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755330Ab2EPUwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:13 -0400 From: Richard Weinberger To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, dedekind1@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heinz.Egger@linutronix.de, tim.bird@am.sony.com Subject: [RFC v5] UBI: Fastmap support (aka checkpointing) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 22:51:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1337201522-86521-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1789 Lines: 47 This is a bug-fix release. v4 handled static volumes wrong. v6 will address everything that Artem pointed out. v1: https://lwn.net/Articles/481612/ v2: https://lwn.net/Articles/496586/ v3: Didn't release it to linux-mtd v4: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1297626 Changes since v1: - renamed it to UBIVIS (at least in Kconfig) - UBIVIS parameters are now configurable via Kconfig - several bugs have been fixed (design and implementation bugs) - added lots of comments to make the review process easier - made checkpatch.pl happy Changes since v2: - minor bugs have been fixed - renamed it to UBI fastmap (as Artem requested) Changes since v3: - changed the on-flash layout (added padding fields, turned the EBA storage into an array) - fixed some corner cases (the protection queue needed some extra work) - removed the data type hint logic - rebased to Artems mtd tree Changes since v4: - fixed static volume handling (used_ebs and last_data_bytes contained bad values in some cases) git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubi2.git ubi2/v5 [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] UBI: Export next_sqnum() [PATCH 2/7] [RFC] UBI: Export compare_lebs() [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] UBI: Add fastmap on-flash layout [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] UBI: Add fastmap structs to ubi_device [PATCH 5/7] [RFC] UBI: Make wl subsystem fastmap aware [PATCH 6/7] [RFC] UBI: Implement fastmapping support [PATCH 7/7] [RFC] UBI: Wire up fastmap support Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/