JFFS2: Use CLEANMARKER to reduce scanning time

If a sector has a CLEANMARKER at the beginning, it indicates that the
entire sector has been erased. Therefore, if this is found, we can skip the
entire block. This was not being done before this patch.

The code now does the same as the kernel does when encountering a
CLEANMARKER. It still checks that the next few words are FFFFFFFF, and if
so, the block is assumed to be empty, and so is skipped.

Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
index c55d472047af4f07c4c17df3eb928abfae9f415c..432579239d981994c2cbefb26a5ff0bbc7344034 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
@@ -1528,6 +1528,8 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
                uint32_t sumlen;
                int ret;
 #endif
+               /* Indicates a sector with a CLEANMARKER was found */
+               int clean_sector = 0;
 
                /* Set buf_size to maximum length */
                buf_size = DEFAULT_EMPTY_SCAN_SIZE;
@@ -1652,6 +1654,14 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
                                        ofs += 4;
                                }
                                /* Ran off end. */
+                               /*
+                                * If this sector had a clean marker at the
+                                * beginning, and immediately following this
+                                * have been a bunch of FF bytes, treat the
+                                * entire sector as empty.
+                                */
+                               if (clean_sector)
+                                       break;
 
                                /* See how much more there is to read in this
                                 * eraseblock...
@@ -1673,6 +1683,11 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
                                buf_ofs = ofs;
                                goto more_empty;
                        }
+                       /*
+                        * Found something not erased in the sector, so reset
+                        * the 'clean_sector' flag.
+                        */
+                       clean_sector = 0;
                        if (node->magic != JFFS2_MAGIC_BITMASK ||
                                        !hdr_crc(node)) {
                                ofs += 4;
@@ -1754,6 +1769,16 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
                                                "%d != %zu\n",
                                                node->totlen,
                                                sizeof(struct jffs2_unknown_node));
+                               if ((node->totlen ==
+                                    sizeof(struct jffs2_unknown_node)) &&
+                                   (ofs == sector_ofs)) {
+                                       /*
+                                        * Found a CLEANMARKER at the beginning
+                                        * of the sector. It's in the correct
+                                        * place with correct size and CRC.
+                                        */
+                                       clean_sector = 1;
+                               }
                                break;
                        case JFFS2_NODETYPE_PADDING:
                                if (node->totlen < sizeof(struct jffs2_unknown_node))