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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c, branch linux-7.0.y</title>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
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<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ubi: correct the calculation of fastmap size</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T20:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-20T02:49:03+00:00</published>
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Now that the calculation of fastmap size in ubi_calc_fm_size() is
incorrect since it miss each user volume's ubi_fm_eba structure and the
Internal UBI volume info. Let's correct the calculation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>ubi: fastmap: Wait until there are enough free PEBs before filling pools</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T20:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:38:39+00:00</published>
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Wait until there are enough free PEBs before filling pool/wl_pool,
sometimes erase_worker is not scheduled in time, which causes two
situations:
 A. There are few PEBs filled in pool, which makes ubi_update_fastmap
    is frequently called and leads first 64 PEBs are erased more times
    than other PEBs. So waiting free PEBs before filling pool reduces
    fastmap updating frequency and prolongs flash service life.
 B. In situation that space is nearly running out, ubi_refill_pools()
    cannot make sure pool and wl_pool are filled with free PEBs, caused
    by the delay of erase_worker. After this patch applied, there must
    exist free PEBs in pool after one call of ubi_update_fastmap.

Besides, this patch is a preparetion for fixing large erase counter in
fastmap data block and fixing lapsed wear leveling for first 64 PEBs.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217787
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>ubi: Replace erase_block() with sync_erase()</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T20:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:38:37+00:00</published>
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Since erase_block() has same logic with sync_erase(), just replace it
with sync_erase(), also rename 'sync_erase()' to 'ubi_sync_erase()'.

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>ubi: fastmap: Allocate memory with GFP_NOFS in ubi_update_fastmap</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T20:33:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:38:36+00:00</published>
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Function ubi_update_fastmap could be called in IO context, for example:
 ubifs_writepage
  do_writepage
   ubifs_jnl_write_data
    write_head
     ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock
      ubifs_leb_write
       ubi_leb_write
        ubi_eba_write_leb
	 try_write_vid_and_data
	  ubi_wl_get_peb
	   ubi_update_fastmap
	    erase_block

So it's better to allocate memory with GFP_NOFS mode, in case waiting
page writeback(dead loop).

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ubi: fastmap: erase_block: Get erase counter from wl_entry rather than flash</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T20:32:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:38:35+00:00</published>
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Just like sync_erase() does, getting erase counter from wl_entry is
faster than reading from flash.

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ubi: fastmap: Fix missed ec updating after erasing old fastmap data block</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T20:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:38:34+00:00</published>
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After running fsstress on ubifs for a long time, UBI(16384 blocks,
fastmap takes 2 blocks) has an erase block with different erase
counters displayed from two views:

From ubiscan view: PEB 8031 has erase counter 31581
=========================================================
from              to     count      min      avg      max
---------------------------------------------------------
0        ..        9:        0        0        0        0
10       ..       99:        0        0        0        0
100      ..      999:    16383      290      315      781
1000     ..     9999:        0        0        0        0
10000    ..    99999:        1    31581    31581    31581
100000   ..      inf:        0        0        0        0
---------------------------------------------------------
Total               :    16384      290      317    31581

From detailed_erase_block_info view: PEB 8031 has erase counter 7
physical_block_number   erase_count
8030                    421
8031                    7   # mem info is different from disk info
8032                    434
8033                    425
8034                    431

Following process missed updating erase counter in wl_entry(in memory):
ubi_update_fastmap
 for (i = 1; i &lt; new_fm-&gt;used_blocks; i++) // update fastmap data
  if (!tmp_e)
   if (old_fm &amp;&amp; old_fm-&gt;e[i])
    erase_block(ubi, old_fm-&gt;e[i]-&gt;pnum)
     ret = ubi_io_sync_erase(ubi, pnum, 0)
     ec = be64_to_cpu(ec_hdr-&gt;ec)
     ec += ret
     ec_hdr-&gt;ec = cpu_to_be64(ec)
     ubi_io_write_ec_hdr(ubi, pnum, ec_hdr)  // ec is updated on flash
   // ec is not updated in old_fm-&gt;e[i] (in memory)

Fix it by passing wl_enter into erase_block() and updating erase
counter in erase_block().

Fixes: dbb7d2a88d2a ("UBI: Add fastmap core")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>UBI: Fastmap: Fix kernel-doc</title>
<updated>2023-02-02T20:13:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiapeng Chong</name>
<email>jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T03:57:58+00:00</published>
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drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c:104: warning: expecting prototype for new_fm_vhdr(). Prototype was for new_fm_vbuf() instead.

Link: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=2289
Reported-by: Abaci Robot &lt;abaci@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong &lt;jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ubi: fastmap: Use the bitmap API to allocate bitmaps</title>
<updated>2022-09-21T09:32:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-04T18:46:00+00:00</published>
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Use bitmap_zalloc()/bitmap_free() instead of hand-writing them.

It is less verbose and it improves the semantic.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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