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There is a risk that the fastmap anchor PEB is alternating between just two PEBs, the current anchor and the previous anchor that was just deleted. As the fastmap pools gets the first take on free PEBs, the pools may leave no free PEBs to be selected as the new anchor, resulting in the two PEBs alternating behaviour. If the anchor PEBs gets a high erase count the PEBs will not be used by the pools but remain in ubi->free, even more increasing the likelihood they will be used as anchors. Getting stuck using only a couple of PEBs continuously will result in an uneven wear, eventually leading to failure. To fix this: - Choose the fastmap anchor when the most free PEBs are available. This is during rebuilding of the fastmap pools, after the unused pool PEBs are added to ubi->free but before the pools are populated again from the free PEBs. Also reserve an additional second best PEB as a candidate for the next time the fast map anchor is updated. If a better PEB is found the next time the fast map anchor is updated, the candidate is made available for building the pools. - Enable anchor move within the anchor area again as it is useful for distributing wear. - The anchor candidate for the next fastmap update is the most suited free PEB. Check this PEB's erase count during wear leveling. If the wear leveling limit is exceeded, the PEB is considered unsuitable for now. As all other non used anchor area PEBs should be even worse, free up the used anchor area PEB with the lowest erase count. Signed-off-by: Arne Edholm <arne.edholm@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.