UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get bad_peb_limit

On NAND flash devices, UBI reserves some physical erase blocks (PEB) for
bad block handling. Today, the number of reserved PEB can only be set as a
percentage of the total number of PEB in each MTD partition. For example, for a
NAND flash with 128KiB PEB, 2 MTD partition of 20MiB (mtd0) and 100MiB (mtd1)
and 2% reserved PEB:
 - the UBI device on mtd0 will have 2 PEB reserved
 - the UBI device on mtd1 will have 16 PEB reserved

The problem with this behaviour is that NAND flash manufacturers give a
minimum number of valid block (NVB) during the endurance life of the
device, e.g.:

Parameter             Symbol    Min    Max    Unit      Notes
--------------------------------------------------------------
Valid block number     NVB     1004    1024   Blocks     1

From this number we can deduce the maximum number of bad PEB that a device will
contain during its endurance life: a 128MiB NAND flash (1024 PEB) will not have
less than 20 bad blocks during the flash endurance life.

But the manufacturer doesn't tell where those bad block will appear. He doesn't
say either if they will be equally disposed on the whole device (and I'm pretty
sure they won't). So, according to the datasheets, we should reserve the
maximum number of bad PEB for each UBI device (worst case scenario: 20 bad
blocks appears on the smallest MTD partition).

So this patch make UBI use the whole MTD device size to calculate the maximum
bad expected eraseblocks.

The Kconfig option is in per1024 blocks, thus it can have a default value of 20
which is *very* common for NAND devices.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index ce311aa..9980441 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/stat.h>
 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
+#include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
 #include <linux/log2.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -610,11 +611,25 @@ static int io_init(struct ubi_device *ubi)
 	if (mtd_can_have_bb(ubi->mtd)) {
 		ubi->bad_allowed = 1;
 		if (CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT > 0) {
-			int percent = CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT;
-			int limit = mult_frac(ubi->peb_count, percent, 100);
+			int per1024 = CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT;
+			int limit, device_pebs;
+			uint64_t device_size;
+
+			/*
+			 * Here we are using size of the entire flash chip and
+			 * not just the MTD partition size because the maximum
+			 * number of bad eraseblocks is a percentage of the
+			 * whole device and bad eraseblocks are not fairly
+			 * distributed over the flash chip. So the worst case
+			 * is that all the bad eraseblocks of the chip are in
+			 * the MTD partition we are attaching (ubi->mtd).
+			 */
+			device_size = mtd_get_device_size(ubi->mtd);
+			device_pebs = mtd_div_by_eb(device_size, ubi->mtd);
+			limit = mult_frac(device_pebs, per1024, 1024);
 
 			/* Round it up */
-			if (mult_frac(limit, 100, percent) < ubi->peb_count)
+			if (mult_frac(limit, 1024, per1024) < device_pebs)
 				limit += 1;
 			ubi->bad_peb_limit = limit;
 		}