This pull request contains the following changes for JFFS2, UBI and UBIFS:
JFFS2:
- Fix for a deadlock in jffs2_write_begin()
UBI:
- Fixes in comments
UBIFS:
- Expose error counters in sysfs
- Many bugfixes found by Hulk Robot and others
jffs2: GC deadlock reading a page that is used in jffs2_write_begin()
GC task can deadlock in read_cache_page() because it may attempt
to release a page that is actually allocated by another task in
jffs2_write_begin().
The reason is that in jffs2_write_begin() there is a small window
a cache page is allocated for use but not set Uptodate yet.
This ends up with a deadlock between two tasks:
1) A task (e.g. file copy)
- jffs2_write_begin() locks a cache page
- jffs2_write_end() tries to lock "alloc_sem" from
jffs2_reserve_space() <-- STUCK
2) GC task (jffs2_gcd_mtd3)
- jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() locks "alloc_sem"
- try to lock the same cache page in read_cache_page() <-- STUCK
So to avoid this deadlock, hold "alloc_sem" in jffs2_write_begin()
while reading data in a cache page.
Signed-off-by: Kyeong Yoo <kyeong.yoo@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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