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UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes
This commit introduces read-only block device emulation on top of UBI volumes. Given UBI takes care of wear leveling and bad block management it's possible to add a thin layer to enable block device access to UBI volumes. This allows to use a block-oriented filesystem on a flash device. The UBI block devices are meant to be used in conjunction with any regular, block-oriented file system (e.g. ext4), although it's primarily targeted at read-only file systems, such as squashfs. Block devices are created upon user request through new ioctls: UBI_IOCVOLATTBLK to attach and UBI_IOCVOLDETBLK to detach. Also, a new UBI module parameter is added 'ubi.block'. This parameter is needed in order to attach a block device on boot-up time, allowing to mount the rootfs on a ubiblock device. For instance, you could have these kernel parameters: ubi.mtd=5 ubi.block=0,0 root=/dev/ubiblock0_0 Or, if you compile ubi as a module: $ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd5 block=/dev/ubi0_0 Artem: amend commentaries and massage the patch a little bit. Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
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@@ -1298,6 +1298,15 @@ static int __init ubi_init(void)
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}
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}
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err = ubiblock_init();
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if (err) {
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ubi_err("block: cannot initialize, error %d", err);
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/* See comment above re-ubi_is_module(). */
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if (ubi_is_module())
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goto out_detach;
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}
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return 0;
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out_detach:
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@@ -1326,6 +1335,8 @@ static void __exit ubi_exit(void)
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{
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int i;
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ubiblock_exit();
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for (i = 0; i < UBI_MAX_DEVICES; i++)
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if (ubi_devices[i]) {
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mutex_lock(&ubi_devices_mutex);
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