[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] cmd_ubi: add write.part command, to write a volume in multiple parts

Paul Burton paul.burton at imgtec.com
Tue Aug 20 11:55:52 CEST 2013


Thanks, I'll fix the style issues and send v2 soon.

Paul

On 19/08/13 10:07, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 06.08.2013 12:13, Paul Burton wrote:
>> This allows you to write data to an UBI volume when the amount of memory
>> available to write that data from is less than the total size of the
>> data. For example, you may split a root filesystem UBIFS image into
>> parts, provide the total size of the image to the first write.part
>> command and then use multiple write.part commands to write the
>> subsequent parts of the volume. This results in a sequence of commands
>> akin to:
>>
>>    ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.0
>>    ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000 0x18000000
>>    ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.1
>>    ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000
>>    ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.2
>>    ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000
>>
>> This would write 384MiB of data to the UBI volume 'root' whilst only
>> requiring 128MiB of said data to be held in memory at a time.
> Some coding-style (nitpicking) comments below.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
>> ---
>>   common/cmd_ubi.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>   doc/README.ubi   |  3 +++
>>   2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/common/cmd_ubi.c b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> index 5ba4feb..dadb27b 100644
>> --- a/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> +++ b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> @@ -266,28 +266,15 @@ out_err:
>>   	return err;
>>   }
>>   
>> -int ubi_volume_write(char *volume, void *buf, size_t size)
>> +int ubi_volume_continue_write(char *volume, void *buf, size_t size)
>>   {
>>   	int err = 1;
>> -	int rsvd_bytes = 0;
>>   	struct ubi_volume *vol;
>>   
>>   	vol = ubi_find_volume(volume);
>>   	if (vol == NULL)
>>   		return ENODEV;
>>   
>> -	rsvd_bytes = vol->reserved_pebs * (ubi->leb_size - vol->data_pad);
>> -	if (size < 0 || size > rsvd_bytes) {
>> -		printf("size > volume size! Aborting!\n");
>> -		return EINVAL;
>> -	}
>> -
>> -	err = ubi_start_update(ubi, vol, size);
>> -	if (err < 0) {
>> -		printf("Cannot start volume update\n");
>> -		return -err;
>> -	}
>> -
>>   	err = ubi_more_update_data(ubi, vol, buf, size);
>>   	if (err < 0) {
>>   		printf("Couldnt or partially wrote data\n");
>> @@ -314,6 +301,37 @@ int ubi_volume_write(char *volume, void *buf, size_t size)
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>>   
>> +int ubi_volume_begin_write(char *volume, void *buf, size_t size,
>> +	size_t full_size)
>> +{
>> +	int err = 1;
>> +	int rsvd_bytes = 0;
>> +	struct ubi_volume *vol;
>> +
>> +	vol = ubi_find_volume(volume);
>> +	if (vol == NULL)
>> +		return ENODEV;
>> +
>> +	rsvd_bytes = vol->reserved_pebs * (ubi->leb_size - vol->data_pad);
>> +	if (size < 0 || size > rsvd_bytes) {
>> +		printf("size > volume size! Aborting!\n");
>> +		return EINVAL;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	err = ubi_start_update(ubi, vol, full_size);
>> +	if (err < 0) {
>> +		printf("Cannot start volume update\n");
>> +		return -err;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return ubi_volume_continue_write(volume, buf, size);
>> +}
>> +
>> +int ubi_volume_write(char *volume, void *buf, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +	return ubi_volume_begin_write(volume, buf, size, size);
>> +}
>> +
>>   int ubi_volume_read(char *volume, char *buf, size_t size)
>>   {
>>   	int err, lnum, off, len, tbuf_size;
>> @@ -588,7 +606,19 @@ static int do_ubi(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>>   		addr = simple_strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 16);
>>   		size = simple_strtoul(argv[4], NULL, 16);
>>   
>> -		ret = ubi_volume_write(argv[3], (void *)addr, size);
>> +		if (strlen(argv[1]) == 10 &&
>> +		    strncmp(argv[1] + 5, ".part", 5) == 0) {
>> +			if (argc < 6)
>> +				ret = ubi_volume_continue_write(argv[3],
>> +						(void *)addr, size);
> Please use braces for multi-line statements.
>
>> +			else {
>> +				size_t full_size;
>> +				full_size = simple_strtoul(argv[5], NULL, 16);
>> +				ret = ubi_volume_begin_write(argv[3],
>> +						(void *)addr, size, full_size);
>> +			}
> Especially when the other branch also uses braces.
>
>> +		} else
>> +			ret = ubi_volume_write(argv[3], (void *)addr, size);
> Here again, please braces since the other branch also uses them.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>




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