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Incooperate feedback for nand_cleanup()
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Over a decade ago nandsim was introduced to Linux. The main purpose is having a
software implementation of a NAND chip for rapid prototyping systems such as
UBI on top of it. On
the other hand is it also heavily used to load and inspect dumps from real NAND
flashes. The current design allows only having a single chip and all parameters
are passed as
modules parameters. Another draw back is that it emulates all NAND chip
internals including command parsing, this makes it slow and error prone wrt.
changes in nand_base.c since
the emulated chip is not really ONFI compliant.
This series addresses the singleton property of nandsim. It allows having
multiple instances which can be controlled by a new userspace tool, nandsimctl.
Nandsimctl works like
losetup. You can add and remove instances with different settings.
To allow multiple instances nandsim offers an ioctl() interface via a new
device file, /dev/nandsimctl, to userspace.
Currently nandsim has two backends, ram and cache. In the default backend mode,
ram, all data you change is stored in main memory. For smaller chips this works
well but becomes
problematic when modern multi-gigabyte chips are emulated. Cache mode addresses
this drawback and redirects program commands to a local file. Using the
cache_file module parameter
the path of the backing file can be set. When nandsim is not a module passing a
file name to it can lead to unexpected behavior since during kernel bootup the
real root filesystem
might not be ready and nandsim will populate the cache file on the initial root
filesysem which is either tmpfs or worse a ramfs.
Via the new ioctl() interface a third backend mode can be used, file mode. File
mode works like cache file but all data (including erases and OOB data) are
stored on a local file.
This file can also also be reused later. It is also possible to operate nandsim
in a mode to omit existing OOB data and masquerade OOB bytes to 0xFF. This
allows using a nanddump
(without OOB) from a real NAND chip directly in nandsim using the file backend.
That way you don't have to use nandwrite or other tools to write the dump into
yout MTD before using
it. You can directly attach the dump in a losetup alike way.
The ioctl() accepts all existing nandsim parameters except that in cache mode
you pass a file descriptor instead of a file name to nandsim. This allows
utilizing O_TMPFILE.
To preserve existing behavior and no breaking any users of nandsim it is still
possible to specify all parameters using module parameters but these parameters
will only affect the
first nandsim instance which will be automatically created upon module loading.
If you don't have to have a default instance and explicitly create nandsim
instances using
nandsimctl pass defaults=n to the module.
There will be an additional patch series for mtd-utils containing nandsimctl.
A side effect of heavily reworking nandsim's backend internals it is now also
possible to create custom backends. A custom backed was added to UserModeLinux.
It allows directly
booting from a nanddump using UML such that UBIFS as rootfs can be tested
nicely on virtual machines.
On step ahead for MTD testing.
The series itself is less straight forward than I wanted it to be, mostly
because while adding new features it was needed to cleanup some parts, over and
over.
Part II of that series will address the chip emulation nature of nandsim. It
will add a second emulation mode. By default NAND chip emulation will be used
but to allow arbitrary
sized MTDs a more simple mode will be added which just allocates a MTD with the
expected sizes instead of mocking nand_base.c.
Daniel Walter (1):
mtd/nandsim: Add ioctl for info
Mathias Kresin (1):
mtd: nandsim: use the existing output macros
Richard Weinberger (44):
mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()
mtd: nand: Provide nand_cleanup() function to free NAND related
resources
mtd: Don't unconditionally unregister reboot notifier
mtd: Don't unconditionally execute remove notifiers
mtd: Don't print a scary message when trying to remove a busy MTD
mtd: nandsim: Add basic control file support
mtd: nandsim: Begin with removal of global state
mtd: nandsim: Kill global nsmtd
mtd: nandsim: Don't directly use module parameters
mtd: nandsim: Add helper functions for pointer magic
mtd: nandsim: Factor out nandsim parameters
mtd: nandsim: Make debugfs logic multi instance capable
mtd: nandsim: Add final logic for multiple instances
mtd: nandsim: Add simulator id to MTD parition name
mtd: nandsim: Introduce backend operations
mtd: nandsim: Print error when backend init failed
mtd: nandsim: Allow external backends
mtd: nandsim: Add basic support for a file backend
mtd: nandsim: UAPI v1
mtd: nandsim: Implement preliminary constructor function
mtd: nandsim: Implement preliminary destructor function
mtd: nandsim: Cleanup destroy handlers
mtd: nandsim: Unify file backend init logic
mtd: nandsim: Wire up NANDSIM_MODE_CACHEFILE ioctl mode
mtd: nandsim: Print backend name
mtd: nandsim: Add no_oob mode
mtd: nandsim: Refine exports
um: Add nandsim backend driver
mtd: nandsim: Use pr_ style logging
mtd: nandsim: Remove NS_RAW_OFFSET_OOB
mtd: nandsim: Remove NS_IS_INITIALIZED
mtd: nandsim: Relax page size restrictions
mtd: nandsim: Support bitflip and read error emulation in file backend
mtd: nandsim: Make NANDSIM_MAX_DEVICES part of uapi
mtd: nandsim: Cleanup constants
mtd: nandsim: Turn parts[] into a integer
mtd: nandsim: Expose partition creation logic to user space
mtd: nandsim: Rework init error paths
mtd: nandsim: Expose BBT, delays, etc.. to userspace
mtd: nandsim: Expose support for weakpages/blocks to userspace
mtd: nandsim: Don't printk on ENOMEM
mtd: nandsim: Wire up NANDSIM_IOC_NEW_INSTANCE
mtd: nandsim: Wire up NANDSIM_IOC_DESTROY_INSTANCE
mtd: nandsim: Always answer all 8 bytes from NAND_CMD_READID
arch/um/Kconfig.um | 6 +
arch/um/drivers/Makefile | 2 +
arch/um/drivers/nand_kern.c | 159 +++
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 28 +-
drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 18 +
drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 18 +-
drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 2141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 1 +
include/linux/mtd/nandsim.h | 79 ++
include/uapi/mtd/nandsim-user.h | 113 +++
10 files changed, 1961 insertions(+), 604 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/nand_kern.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/mtd/nandsim.h
create mode 100644 include/uapi/mtd/nandsim-user.h
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