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authorEzequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>2014-06-24 10:55:50 -0300
committerBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2014-07-08 18:37:26 -0700
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mtd: Add sysfs attributes to expose the ECC stats fields
These new sysfs device attributes allow us to retrieve the ECC and bad block stats by poking a sysfs file, which is often more convenient than using the ioctl. Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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@@ -184,3 +184,41 @@ Description:
It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ecc_failures
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of failures reported by this device's ECC. Typically,
+ these failures are associated with failed read operations.
+
+ It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
+ devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/corrected_bits
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of bits that have been corrected by means of the
+ device's ECC.
+
+ It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
+ devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/bad_blocks
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of blocks marked as bad, if any, in this partition.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/bbt_blocks
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of blocks that are marked as reserved, if any, in
+ this partition. These are typically used to store the in-flash
+ bad block table (BBT).