UBI: fix mean EC calculation

(a + b) / (c + d) != a / c + b / d. The old code errornously
assumed this incorrect formuld. Instead, just sum all erase
counters in a 64-bit variable and divide to the number of EBs
at the end.

Thanks to Adrian Hunter for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
index 05aa3e7daba1edefb88a3b97befb6d4f717fc25c..96d410e106ab1cb72cf9f6bda211e756eaa8c98d 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/crc32.h>
+#include <asm/div64.h>
 #include "ubi.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID
@@ -91,27 +92,6 @@ static int add_to_list(struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum, int ec,
        return 0;
 }
 
-/**
- * commit_to_mean_value - commit intermediate results to the final mean erase
- * counter value.
- * @si: scanning information
- *
- * This is a helper function which calculates partial mean erase counter mean
- * value and adds it to the resulting mean value. As we can work only in
- * integer arithmetic and we want to calculate the mean value of erase counter
- * accurately, we first sum erase counter values in @si->ec_sum variable and
- * count these components in @si->ec_count. If this temporary @si->ec_sum is
- * going to overflow, we calculate the partial mean value
- * (@si->ec_sum/@si->ec_count) and add it to @si->mean_ec.
- */
-static void commit_to_mean_value(struct ubi_scan_info *si)
-{
-       si->ec_sum /= si->ec_count;
-       if (si->ec_sum % si->ec_count >= si->ec_count / 2)
-               si->mean_ec += 1;
-       si->mean_ec += si->ec_sum;
-}
-
 /**
  * validate_vid_hdr - check that volume identifier header is correct and
  * consistent.
@@ -901,15 +881,8 @@ static int process_eb(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum
 
 adjust_mean_ec:
        if (!ec_corr) {
-               if (si->ec_sum + ec < ec) {
-                       commit_to_mean_value(si);
-                       si->ec_sum = 0;
-                       si->ec_count = 0;
-               } else {
-                       si->ec_sum += ec;
-                       si->ec_count += 1;
-               }
-
+               si->ec_sum += ec;
+               si->ec_count += 1;
                if (ec > si->max_ec)
                        si->max_ec = ec;
                if (ec < si->min_ec)
@@ -965,9 +938,11 @@ struct ubi_scan_info *ubi_scan(struct ubi_device *ubi)
 
        dbg_msg("scanning is finished");
 
-       /* Finish mean erase counter calculations */
-       if (si->ec_count)
-               commit_to_mean_value(si);
+       /* Calculate mean erase counter */
+       if (si->ec_count) {
+               do_div(si->ec_sum, si->ec_count);
+               si->mean_ec = si->ec_sum;
+       }
 
        if (si->is_empty)
                ubi_msg("empty MTD device detected");

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h
index 46d444af471a24a094fc3c0aa54d76e91dda94bd..966b9b682a423819921f69ca02e626ad0c89772b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct ubi_scan_info {
        int max_ec;
        unsigned long long max_sqnum;
        int mean_ec;
-       int ec_sum;
+       uint64_t ec_sum;
        int ec_count;
 };