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Commit e8823bd6 authored by Artem Bityutskiy's avatar Artem Bityutskiy
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UBI: fix atomic LEB change problems



When the UBI device is nearly full, i.e. all LEBs are mapped, we have
only one spare LEB left - the one we reserved for WL purposes. Well,
I do not count the LEBs which were reserved for bad PEB handling -
suppose NOR flash for simplicity. If an "atomic LEB change operation"
is run, and the WL unit is moving a LEB, we have no spare LEBs to
finish the operation and fail, which is not good. Moreover, if there
are 2 or more simultanious "atomic LEB change" requests, only one of
them has chances to succeed, the other will fail with -ENOSPC. Not
good either.

This patch does 2 things:
1. Reserves one PEB for the "atomic LEB change" operation.
2. Serealize the operations so that only on of them may run
   at a time (by means of a mutex).

Pointed-to-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
parent 6986646b
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