UBIFS problem on MPC8536DS

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter at nokia.com
Wed Oct 14 23:36:04 EST 2009


Felix Radensky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem in linux-2.6.31 running on MPC8536DS board.
> It is 100% reproducible, by opening a 350MB tar file into ubifs volume
> on NAND flash, and starting erase of NOR flash partition right after that.
> 
> If I don't start  NOR erase, everything works fine. Also, If I run sync 
> after
> tar, no problem occurs.  The NOR flash is 32MB  Spansion, NAND is
> 4GB Samsung.
> 
> The error messages are as follows:
> 
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 2048 bytes to PEB 
> 5812:12288, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: ubi_eba_write_leb: failed to write data to PEB 5812
> UBI: recover PEB 5812, move data to PEB 19400
> UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 512 bytes from PEB 
> 5812:512, read 512 bytes
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 512 bytes to PEB 
> 19400:512, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19400
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5812, move data to PEB 19401
> UBI: run torture test for PEB 19400
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 512 bytes to PEB 
> 19401:512, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19401
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5812, move data to PEB 19402
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 512 bytes to PEB 
> 19402:512, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19402
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5812, move data to PEB 19403
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 512 bytes to PEB 
> 19403:512, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19403
> UBI warning: ubi_ro_mode: switch to read-only mode
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock: cannot write 2522 bytes 
> to LEB 389:10240, error -5
> UBIFS warning (pid 1149): ubifs_ro_mode: switched to read-only mode, 
> error -5
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): do_writepage: cannot write page 0 of inode 
> 30708, error -5
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 858 bytes in 
> jhead 2, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): do_writepage: cannot write page 2 of inode 
> 29486, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 721 bytes in 
> jhead 2, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): do_writepage: cannot write page 1 of inode 
> 30070, error -30
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 2048 bytes to PEB 
> 5022:88064, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: ubi_eba_write_leb: failed to write data to PEB 5022
> UBI: recover PEB 5022, move data to PEB 19404
> UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 512 bytes from PEB 
> 5022:512, read 512 bytes
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19404
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5022, move data to PEB 19405
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19405
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5022, move data to PEB 19406
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19406
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5022, move data to PEB 19407
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19407
> UBIFS error (pid 1044): ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock: cannot write 2048 bytes 
> to LEB 788:86016
> UBIFS error (pid 1044): ubifs_bg_wbufs_sync: cannot sync write-buffer, 
> error -30
> UBIFS warning (pid 1044): ubifs_ro_mode: switched to read-only mode, 
> error -30
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -5 while writing 2048 bytes to PEB 
> 5817:26624, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: ubi_eba_write_leb: failed to write data to PEB 5817
> UBI: recover PEB 5817, move data to PEB 19408
> UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 512 bytes from PEB 
> 5817:512, read 512 bytes
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19408
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5817, move data to PEB 19409
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19409
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5817, move data to PEB 19410
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19410
> UBI: try again
> UBI: recover PEB 5817, move data to PEB 19411
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: read-only mode
> UBI warning: recover_peb: failed to write to PEB 19411
> UBIFS error (pid 1047): ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock: cannot write 2048 bytes 
> to LEB 385:24576
> UBIFS error (pid 1047): ubifs_bg_wbufs_sync: cannot sync write-buffer, 
> error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 160 bytes in 
> jhead 1, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): ubifs_write_inode: can't write inode 30709, 
> error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 160 bytes in 
> jhead 1, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): ubifs_write_inode: can't write inode 30710, 
> error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 160 bytes in 
> jhead 1, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): ubifs_write_inode: can't write inode 30698, 
> error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): make_reservation: cannot reserve 160 bytes in 
> jhead 1, error -30
> UBIFS error (pid 1149): ubifs_write_inode: can't write inode 30711, 
> error -30
> 
> I'd appreciate any hints on what can cause this. Is it a hardware 
> problem, mtd layer problem
> or UBI problem ?

It sounds like you are saying one MTD partition somehow affects another.
You should check the MTD partitions are set up correctly.  Are you using
tools that make assumptions about which mtd partition is which?

How do you erase the NOR flash?  Is the device node (/dev/mtd...) correct?




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