Re: [Yaffs] Why do I get a "gc prioritised" message?

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Author: Allen Curtis
Date:  
To: Charles Manning
CC: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Why do I get a "gc prioritised" message?
>> Does anyone know why, when unmounting a YAFFS partition, after reading
>> from it, I get the following messages?
>>
>> yaffs block 250 gc prioritised
>> yaffs block 251 gc prioritised
>
> These messages are just debug/tracing messages that were added during
> recent
> changes to support better retirement handling.
>
> If you are getting many of these, then you might have some issues with
> ecc or
> similar.
>


Ok, this is a little scary... How do we investigate this further?

> A block that is prioritised for gc has some sort of error on it and we
> keep
> this state over unmount/mount cycles with checkpointing.
>
> The messages are just there to show that this was remembered correctly.
>>
>> These messages are generated from a recent YAFFS, CVS checkout. They
>> do
>> not appear to be a problem but it does slow the performance while
>> umounting.
>
> This only slows things by the addition of the messages.


True, but messages are normally off unless you want to enable them or
they are important!

Allen