On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 15:24 -0400, Peter Barada wrote:
> I have a filesystem - I've created it from scratch, copied one file
> into it, unmounted the filesystem, remounted it and created a new
> version of the file. I then reboot and remount the filesystem in
> read-only, and yaffs attempts to clean up the filesystem by calline
> yaffs_DeleteFile from yaffs_StripDeletedObjects.
>
> Unfortunately with the filesystem in this state,
> nandmtd2_WriteChunkWithTagsToNAND is called (and returns -EROFS) which
> yaffs treats as a write error, tries to retire the block and
> eventually complains that the allocator is out.
>
> I added a dump_stack into yaffs_VerifyChunkWritten to see how its
> called from mount on a read-only filesystem and I get:
>
>
> [<c0037584>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from [<c0168684>] (yaffs_WriteNewChunkWithTagsToNAND+0x470/0x5e8)
> [<c0168684>] (yaffs_WriteNewChunkWithTagsToNAND+0x470/0x5e8) from [<c0169644>] (yaffs_CheckGarbageCollection+0xa18/0xd08)
> [<c0169644>] (yaffs_CheckGarbageCollection+0xa18/0xd08) from [<c016ab2c>] (yaffs_ResizeFile+0x30/0xe8)
> [<c016ab2c>] (yaffs_ResizeFile+0x30/0xe8) from [<c016ae10>] (yaffs_DeleteFile+0x3c/0x188)
> [<c016ae10>] (yaffs_DeleteFile+0x3c/0x188) from [<c016d9cc>] (yaffs_GutsInitialise+0x13b0/0x15c8)
> [<c016d9cc>] (yaffs_GutsInitialise+0x13b0/0x15c8) from [<c0163df0>] (yaffs_internal_read_super+0x8e0/0xb6c)
> [<c0163df0>] (yaffs_internal_read_super+0x8e0/0xb6c) from [<c01640c4>] (yaffs_internal_read_super_mtd+0x1c/0x2c)
> [<c01640c4>] (yaffs_internal_read_super_mtd+0x1c/0x2c) from [<c00b1794>] (get_sb_bdev+0x114/0x16c)
> [<c00b1794>] (get_sb_bdev+0x114/0x16c) from [<c01613f8>] (yaffs_read_super+0x18/0x20)
> [<c01613f8>] (yaffs_read_super+0x18/0x20) from [<c00b0814>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x4c/0xd0)
> [<c00b0814>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x4c/0xd0) from [<c00b08dc>] (do_kern_mount+0x34/0xd8)
> [<c00b08dc>] (do_kern_mount+0x34/0xd8) from [<c00c4fdc>] (do_mount+0x5ec/0x64c)
> [<c00c4fdc>] (do_mount+0x5ec/0x64c) from [<c00c50c0>] (sys_mount+0x84/0xc4)
> [<c00c50c0>] (sys_mount+0x84/0xc4) from [<c0031ec0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
> **>> Block 5 needs retiring
>
>
> If I mount the filesystem read-write, then its cleaned up. So the
> question is, how can I fix YAFFS such that it doesn't attempt to write
> to a read-only filesystem?
Ping?
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Peter Barada <peterb@logicpd.com>
> Logic Product Development, Inc.
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