Re: [PATCH 2/5] ubi: Limit amount of reserved eraseblocks for badPEB handling

From: Shmulik Ladkani
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 07:02:33 EST


On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:15:17 +0200 Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/7/4 Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > + /*
> > + * Calculate the actual number of PEBs currently needed to be reserved
> > + * for future bad eraseblock handling.
> > + */
> > + ubi->beb_rsvd_level = ubi->bad_peb_limit - ubi->bad_peb_count;
> > + if (ubi->beb_rsvd_level < 0) {
> > + ubi->beb_rsvd_level = 0;
> > + ubi_warn("number of bad PEBs (%d) is above the expected limit "
> > + "(%d), not reserving any PEBs for bad PEB handling, "
> > + "will use available PEBs (if any)",
> > + ubi->bad_peb_count, ubi->bad_peb_limit);
> > + }
> > }
> is it ok for beb_rsvd_level to be in the range [0..x[ instead of [2..x[ ?

Yes, it is ok in my new scheme.
It is even mandatory, otherwise more and more PEBs will attempt to be
reserved for future bad PEB handling (as 'beb_rsvd_pebs' always wishes
to reach 'beb_rsvd_level') even if passed the limit - this is exactly
what I'd like to fix.

Regards
Shmulik
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