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    UBI: fix atomic LEB change problems · e8823bd6
    Artem Bityutskiy authored
    When the UBI device is nearly full, i.e. all LEBs are mapped, we have
    only one spare LEB left - the one we reserved for WL purposes. Well,
    I do not count the LEBs which were reserved for bad PEB handling -
    suppose NOR flash for simplicity. If an "atomic LEB change operation"
    is run, and the WL unit is moving a LEB, we have no spare LEBs to
    finish the operation and fail, which is not good. Moreover, if there
    are 2 or more simultanious "atomic LEB change" requests, only one of
    them has chances to succeed, the other will fail with -ENOSPC. Not
    good either.
    
    This patch does 2 things:
    1. Reserves one PEB for the "atomic LEB change" operation.
    2. Serealize the operations so that only on of them may run
       at a time (by means of a mutex).
    Pointed-to-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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