[Yaffs] Yaffs & uclinux kernel 2.4.22 problem

[Luc Van Oostenryck]

Charles Manning wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:24, Ludovic Guilhamat wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to shift from Jffs2 to Yaffs, but I have some problems...
>>
>>Well, I work on a Coldfire platform, with uClinux and a 2.4.22 kernel.
>>
>>I successfully compiled Yaffs on this distrib, but I've a problem when I
>>want to mount a Nand partition with Yaffs.
>>Actually, it's a Jffs2 partition (empty), so I unmount it, I use
>>'mkyaffs /dev/mtd1' to format it, and I use 'mount -t yaffs /dev/mtd1
>>/var/parameters' to mount it, but I have this message :
>>
>>mtdblock_open
>>ok
>>yaffs: dev is 7937 name is "1f:01"
>>yaffs_read_super: MTD block size 4096
>>yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.1, "1f:01"
>>yaffs locking
>>
>>
>>yaffs_read_super: guts initialised
>>yaffs_read_super : guts initialized...
>>yaffs_get_inode for object 146776
>>yaffs_read_inode for 146776
> 
> 
> Did all that happen just from the mount or did you do something between 
> mounting and crashing? It seems that the scanning itself went fine.

The get/read_inode calls are, I think, the ones done at mount for the root
directory. So, I think the crashing happened during the mount.

> One of the best things you can do at this point is to turn on a bit more 
> tracing. tracing is controlled by yaffs_traceMask in yaffs_fs.c. Set it to 
> 0xFFFFFFFF and you'll get everything.
> 
> Are you using yaffs or yaffs2 codebase?
> 
> -- Charles

Ludovic, can you send the Ooops decoded by ksymoops so that we can have
a better idea of where the problem can be?


-- Luc