Thanks for your info, but I have no problem at all with JFFS2 using the same NAND driver. I run the full test on JFFS2 without any error.

Ceco

Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

This, and all your previous recent problems, look like issues in the nand
driver.

Allocator out can only happen when a lot of blocks all seem to go bad, or
there are a lot of nand errors. This is extremely unlikely with real flash,
but is quite possible if the software is being told that the blocks are bad.

My suggestion is to add more tracing to the lower levels (including the nand
drivers) to figure out what is getting messed up.

-- CHarles

On Friday 24 November 2006 06:11, goog long wrote:
> I have the same problem. I enable YAFFS_TRACE_ALLOCATE, YAFFS_TRACE_GC and
> YAFFS_TRACE_GC_DETAIL this time. I also capture /proc/yaffs before and
> after copying file. There are already some bad blocks marked by the last
> run. It is noticed that there is a soft lockup in the middle. The log is
> below.
>
>
> # cat /proc/yaffs
> YAFFS built:Nov 23 2006 11:50:15
> $Id: yaffs_fs.c,v 1.54 2006/10/24 18:09:15 charles Exp $
> $Id: yaffs_guts.c,v 1.45 2006/11/14 03:07:17 charles Exp $
> # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd5
>
> Skipping bad block at 0x00000000
> Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 20000 -- 0 % complete.
> Skipping bad block at 0x00040000
>
> Skipping bad block at 0x00060000
>
> ............
> Skipping bad block at 0x00340000
>
> Skipping bad block at 0x00360000
> Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 7e80000 -- 99 % complete.
> # mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock5 /yaffs2
> [42949509.130000] yaffs: dev is 32505861 name is "mtdblock5"
> [42949509.130000] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.5, "mtdblock5"
> [42949509.180000] block 1 is bad
> [42949509.180000] block 3 is bad
>
> ...........[42949509.260000] block 27 is bad
> [42949509.270000] block 28 is bad
> # cat /proc/yaffsYAFFS built:Nov 23 2006 11:50:15
> $Id: yaffs_fs.c,v 1.54 2006/10/24 18:09:15 charles Exp $
> $Id: yaffs_guts.c,v 1.45 2006/11/14 03:07:17 charles Exp $
>
> Device 0 "File system"
> startBlock......... 0
> endBlock........... 1012
> chunkGroupBits..... 0
> chunkGroupSize..... 1
> nErasedBlocks...... 986
> nTnodesCreated..... 0
> nFreeTnodes........ 0
> nObjectsCreated.... 200
> nFreeObjects....... 96
> nFreeChunks........ 63104
> nPageWrites........ 0
> nPageReads......... 0
> nBlockErasures..... 0
> nGCCopies.......... 0
> garbageCollections. 0
> passiveGCs......... 0
> nRetriedWrites..... 0
> nRetireBlocks...... 0
> eccFixed........... 0
> eccUnfixed......... 0
> tagsEccFixed....... 0
> tagsEccUnfixed..... 0
> cacheHits.......... 0
> nDeletedFiles...... 0
> nUnlinkedFiles..... 0
> nBackgroudDeletions 0
> useNANDECC......... 1
> isYaffs2........... 1# dd if=test_file of=/yaffs2/test_file
> [42949586.060000] yaffs: Tnodes added
> [42949586.070000] Allocated block 2, seq 4097, 985 left
> [42949586.080000] **>> Block 2 needs retiring
> [42949586.080000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 2 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949586.090000] **>> Block 2 retired
> [42949586.090000] Allocated block 29, seq 4098, 984 left
> [42949586.100000] **>> Block 29 needs retiring
> [42949586.100000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 29 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949586.110000] **>> Block 29 retired
> [42949586.110000] Allocated block 30, seq 4099, 983 left
> [42949586.120000] **>> Block 30 needs retiring
> [42949586.130000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 30 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949586.130000] **>> Block 30 retired
> [42949586.140000] Allocated block 31, seq 4100, 982 left
>
> ...............
> [42949595.250000] **>> Block 425 needs retiring
> [42949595.250000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 425 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949595.260000] **>> Block 425 retired
> [42949595.260000] Allocated block 426, seq 4495, 587 left
> [42949595.270000] **>> Block 426 needs retiring
> [42949595.270000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 426 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949595.280000] **>> Block 426 retired
> [42949595.290000] Allocated block 427, seq 4496, 586 left
> [42949595.290000] **>> Block 427 needs retiring
> [42949595.300000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
> [42949595.300000]
> [42949595.300000] Pid: 227, comm: dd
> [42949595.300000] CPU: 0
> [42949595.300000] PC is at release_console_sem+0xb0/0x224
> [42949595.300000] LR is at release_console_sem+0xac/0x224
> [42949595.300000] pc : [] lr : [] Not tainted
> [42949595.300000] sp : c3817b30 ip : 0001a8bf fp : c3817b5c
> [42949595.300000] r10: c02cd49c r9 : c02cd498 r8 : fffe5741
> [42949595.300000] r7 : c026a664 r6 : 60000013 r5 : 0001a8bf r4 :
> 0001a8bf [42949595.300000] r3 : c02cd084 r2 : c0278870 r1 : 0001a8bf r0
> : 0001a8bf [42949595.300000] Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32
> Segment user [42949595.300000] Control: C5387F Table: 83848000 DAC:
> 00000015
> [42949595.300000] [] (show_regs+0x0/0x50) from []
> (softlock)[42949595.300000] r5 = C02EE824 [42949595.300000] []
> (softlockup_tick+0x0/0x84) from [] (do)[42949595.300000] r4 =
> 00000000 [42949595.300000] [] (do_timer+0x0/0x514) from
> [] (timer_ti)[42949595.300000] [] (timer_tick+0x0/0xf8)
> from [] (omap2_g)[42949595.300000] r6 = 00000026 r5 = C3817AE8
> r4 = C02ED7D0 [42949595.300000] []
> (omap2_gp_timer_interrupt+0x0/0x7c) from [> 00000000 r4 = C0269168 [42949595.300000] [] (__do_irq+0x0/0xfc)
> from [] (do_level_)[42949595.300000] r8 = C3817AE8 r7 =
> C0265C88 r6 = C3817AE8 r5 = 00000026 [42949595.300000] r4 = C02C7A7C
> [42949595.300000] [] (do_level_IRQ+0x0/0xc4) from []
> (asm_d)[42949595.300000] r6 = 60000013 r5 = D80FE000 r4 = C3816000
> [42949595.300000] [] (asm_do_IRQ+0x0/0x154) from []
> (__irq_)[42949595.300000] [] (release_console_sem+0x0/0x224) from
> [)[42949595.300000] [] (vprintk+0x0/0x330) from
> [] (printk+0x)[42949595.300000] [] (printk+0x0/0x24)
> from [] (yaffs_Write)[42949595.300000] r3 = 40001055 r2 =
> 0000000F r1 = 000001AB r0 = C0238270 [42949595.300000] []
> (yaffs_WriteNewChunkWithTagsToNAND+0x0/0x560) fr)[42949595.300000]
> [] (yaffs_UpdateObjectHeader+0x0/0x3a8) from
> [] (yaffs_MknodObject+0x0/0x16c) from
> [] )[42949595.300000] [] (yaffs_MknodFile+0x0/0x50)
> from [] (ya)[42949595.300000] r4 = C38440F8 [42949595.300000]
> [] (yaffs_mknod+0x0/0x2b4) from []
> (yaffs)[42949595.300000] [] (yaffs_create+0x0/0x6c) from
> [] (vfs_c)[42949595.300000] r6 = C3D0E6D0 r5 = 000001A4 r4 =
> 00000000 [42949595.300000] [] (vfs_create+0x0/0xbc) from
> [] (open_na)[42949595.300000] r8 = C3820EE8 r7 = 00000242 r6 =
> C3820BB8 r5 = C3817F00 [42949595.300000] r4 = C3820BB8
> [42949595.300000] [] (open_namei+0x0/0x570) from []
> (filp_o)[42949595.300000] [] (filp_open+0x0/0xa0) from
> [] (do_sys_o)[42949595.300000] r8 = C00252A8 r7 = C3FDD000 r6
> = 000001B6 r5 = 00000004 [42949595.300000] r4 = 00000241
> [42949595.300000] [] (do_sys_open+0x0/0xf0) from []
> (sys_op)[42949595.300000] [] (sys_open+0x0/0x14) from
> [] (ret_fast_)[42949595.310000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 427
> state 5 needs retiring [42949595.320000] **>> Block 427 retired
> [42949595.320000] Allocated block 428, seq 4497, 585 left
> [42949595.330000] **>> Block 428 needs retiring
> [42949595.330000] yaffs_BlockBecameDirty block 428 state 5 needs retiring
> [42949595.340000] **>> Block 428 retired
>
> ............
>
> [42949608.540000] **>> Block 998 retired
> [42949608.540000] Allocated block 999, seq 5068, 14 left
> [42949608.550000] **>> yaffs write required 971 attempts
> dd: /yaffs2/test_file: Cannot allocate memory
> # cat /proc/yaffs
> YAFFS built:Nov 23 2006 11:50:15
> $Id: yaffs_fs.c,v 1.54 2006/10/24 18:09:15 charles Exp $
> $Id: yaffs_guts.c,v 1.45 2006/11/14 03:07:17 charles Exp $
>
> Device 0 "File system"
> startBlock......... 0
> endBlock........... 1012
> chunkGroupBits..... 0
> chunkGroupSize..... 1
> nErasedBlocks...... 14
> nTnodesCreated..... 100
> nFreeTnodes........ 100
> nObjectsCreated.... 200
> nFreeObjects....... 96
> nFreeChunks........ 960
> nPageWrites........ 0
> nPageReads......... 0
> nBlockErasures..... 0
> nGCCopies.......... 0
> garbageCollections. 0
> passiveGCs......... 0
> nRetriedWrites..... 970
> nRetireBlocks...... 971
> eccFixed........... 0
> eccUnfixed......... 0
> tagsEccFixed....... 0
> tagsEccUnfixed..... 0
> cacheHits.......... 0
> nDeletedFiles...... 0
> nUnlinkedFiles..... 1
> nBackgroudDeletions 0
> useNANDECC......... 1
> isYaffs2........... 1
> # umount /yaffs2
>
> Charles Manning wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006
16:27, Paul Wang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your valuable answer.
> > Yes, I forget to erase the mtdblock first.
> >
> > After I used "mkyaffs" to erase the block, It shows from /proc/yaffs that
> > nEraseblocks is 815. I can write some files without the errors.
> >
> > Then I got another problem, after I write some files(the total blocksize
> > is 13M and I write around 5M data), the nEraseblock went down to 0 and I
> > got the same error message again. Even I delete some files and the
> > nEraseblock is always 0.
> > That means the flash is not fully released.
> >
> > How to do the garbage collection?
> > How can my application know when to do the garbage collection?
>
> The garbage collection is done automatically by yaffgs as a by-product of
> any operation that modifies the file system.
>
> It seems to me that one of two things has happened here:
> 1) Garbage collection triggering is broken somehow, so yaffs does not
> triger garbage collection.
> 2) The garbage collection is failing because the erasure is failing or some
> simil;ar problem. Thsi means that attempts to do garbage collection do not
> free up any space.
>
> Try turning on tracing for YAFFS_TRACE_ALLOCATE, YAFFS_TRACE_GC and
> YAFFS_TRACE_GC_DETAIL. These should give a far better indication of what is
> happening.
>
> > Regards
> > Paul
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Manning"
> > To:
> > Cc: "Paul Wang" ; ;
>
> ; ; Sent: Tuesday,
>
> > October 24, 2006 8:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Yaffs] yaffs problem: !!!!!!!!! Allocator out
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > On Sunday 22 October 2006 03:56, Paul Wang wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Sorry to disturb, I saw you discussed this problem last month.
> > > Is there any solution?
> > >
> > > I meet this problem and have no idea what to do.
> > > Currently I'm using Linux 2.6.12.
> > > And it's a 32M nand flash with 3 mtdbolcks.
> > > first 3M bytes reserved
> > > following 16M bytes file system(cramfs)
> > > last 13M bytes yaffs
> > >
> > > I can see it reports few bad blocks for the yaffs.
> > > I always get this error message
> > > -----------------
> > > yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks
> > > !!!!!!!!! Allocator out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > This happens because you have no erased blocks to use for further
> > allocation.
> >
> > > ---------------------
> > > And what I did is just using VI to edit a file(no more than 30 bytes).
> > >
> > > I have attached the /proc/yaffs file and the message during linux start
> > > up.
> >
> > From the /proc/yaffs
> >
> > nErasedBlocks...... 0
> >
> > What you don't say is when you captured the /proc/yaffs and how you got
> > the system into this state.
> >
> > There should never be fewer than about 5 erased blocks.
> >
> > Can you do the following:
> >
> > 1) Erase partition
> > 2) Mount
> > 3) capture /proc/yaffs and output from ls -ial
> > 4) Do whatever it is you do to get into this state. With some
> > explanation. 5) capture /proc/yaffs.
> >
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> > -- Charles
>
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