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diff --git a/fs/ubifs/budget.c b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
index 85377ea2a6..9ed40177cb 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/budget.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
@@ -3,18 +3,7 @@
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation.
*
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
- * more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
- * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51
- * Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
*
* Authors: Adrian Hunter
* Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
@@ -31,32 +20,171 @@
*/
#include "ubifs.h"
+#define __UBOOT__
+#ifndef __UBOOT__
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
+#else
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#endif
#include <linux/math64.h>
+/*
+ * When pessimistic budget calculations say that there is no enough space,
+ * UBIFS starts writing back dirty inodes and pages, doing garbage collection,
+ * or committing. The below constant defines maximum number of times UBIFS
+ * repeats the operations.
+ */
+#define MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES 3
+
+/*
+ * The below constant defines amount of dirty pages which should be written
+ * back at when trying to shrink the liability.
+ */
+#define NR_TO_WRITE 16
+
+#ifndef __UBOOT__
+/**
+ * shrink_liability - write-back some dirty pages/inodes.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @nr_to_write: how many dirty pages to write-back
+ *
+ * This function shrinks UBIFS liability by means of writing back some amount
+ * of dirty inodes and their pages.
+ *
+ * Note, this function synchronizes even VFS inodes which are locked
+ * (@i_mutex) by the caller of the budgeting function, because write-back does
+ * not touch @i_mutex.
+ */
+static void shrink_liability(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr_to_write)
+{
+ down_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount);
+ writeback_inodes_sb(c->vfs_sb, WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE);
+ up_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount);
+}
+
+/**
+ * run_gc - run garbage collector.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function runs garbage collector to make some more free space. Returns
+ * zero if a free LEB has been produced, %-EAGAIN if commit is required, and a
+ * negative error code in case of failure.
+ */
+static int run_gc(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ int err, lnum;
+
+ /* Make some free space by garbage-collecting dirty space */
+ down_read(&c->commit_sem);
+ lnum = ubifs_garbage_collect(c, 1);
+ up_read(&c->commit_sem);
+ if (lnum < 0)
+ return lnum;
+
+ /* GC freed one LEB, return it to lprops */
+ dbg_budg("GC freed LEB %d", lnum);
+ err = ubifs_return_leb(c, lnum);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
- * ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs - calculate amount of eraseblocks for the index.
+ * get_liability - calculate current liability.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
- * This function calculates and returns the number of eraseblocks which should
- * be kept for index usage.
+ * This function calculates and returns current UBIFS liability, i.e. the
+ * amount of bytes UBIFS has "promised" to write to the media.
+ */
+static long long get_liability(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ long long liab;
+
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ liab = c->bi.idx_growth + c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+ return liab;
+}
+
+/**
+ * make_free_space - make more free space on the file-system.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function is called when an operation cannot be budgeted because there
+ * is supposedly no free space. But in most cases there is some free space:
+ * o budgeting is pessimistic, so it always budgets more than it is actually
+ * needed, so shrinking the liability is one way to make free space - the
+ * cached data will take less space then it was budgeted for;
+ * o GC may turn some dark space into free space (budgeting treats dark space
+ * as not available);
+ * o commit may free some LEB, i.e., turn freeable LEBs into free LEBs.
+ *
+ * So this function tries to do the above. Returns %-EAGAIN if some free space
+ * was presumably made and the caller has to re-try budgeting the operation.
+ * Returns %-ENOSPC if it couldn't do more free space, and other negative error
+ * codes on failures.
+ */
+static int make_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ int err, retries = 0;
+ long long liab1, liab2;
+
+ do {
+ liab1 = get_liability(c);
+ /*
+ * We probably have some dirty pages or inodes (liability), try
+ * to write them back.
+ */
+ dbg_budg("liability %lld, run write-back", liab1);
+ shrink_liability(c, NR_TO_WRITE);
+
+ liab2 = get_liability(c);
+ if (liab2 < liab1)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ dbg_budg("new liability %lld (not shrunk)", liab2);
+
+ /* Liability did not shrink again, try GC */
+ dbg_budg("Run GC");
+ err = run_gc(c);
+ if (!err)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ if (err != -EAGAIN && err != -ENOSPC)
+ /* Some real error happened */
+ return err;
+
+ dbg_budg("Run commit (retries %d)", retries);
+ err = ubifs_run_commit(c);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ } while (retries++ < MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES);
+
+ return -ENOSPC;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs - calculate amount of LEBs for the index.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns the number of LEBs which should be kept
+ * for index usage.
*/
int ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
- int idx_lebs, eff_leb_size = c->leb_size - c->max_idx_node_sz;
+ int idx_lebs;
long long idx_size;
- idx_size = c->old_idx_sz + c->budg_idx_growth + c->budg_uncommitted_idx;
-
+ idx_size = c->bi.old_idx_sz + c->bi.idx_growth + c->bi.uncommitted_idx;
/* And make sure we have thrice the index size of space reserved */
- idx_size = idx_size + (idx_size << 1);
-
+ idx_size += idx_size << 1;
/*
* We do not maintain 'old_idx_size' as 'old_idx_lebs'/'old_idx_bytes'
* pair, nor similarly the two variables for the new index size, so we
* have to do this costly 64-bit division on fast-path.
*/
- idx_size += eff_leb_size - 1;
- idx_lebs = div_u64(idx_size, eff_leb_size);
+ idx_lebs = div_u64(idx_size + c->idx_leb_size - 1, c->idx_leb_size);
/*
* The index head is not available for the in-the-gaps method, so add an
* extra LEB to compensate.
@@ -67,6 +195,424 @@ int ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(struct ubifs_info *c)
return idx_lebs;
}
+#ifndef __UBOOT__
+/**
+ * ubifs_calc_available - calculate available FS space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @min_idx_lebs: minimum number of LEBs reserved for the index
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns amount of FS space available for use.
+ */
+long long ubifs_calc_available(const struct ubifs_info *c, int min_idx_lebs)
+{
+ int subtract_lebs;
+ long long available;
+
+ available = c->main_bytes - c->lst.total_used;
+
+ /*
+ * Now 'available' contains theoretically available flash space
+ * assuming there is no index, so we have to subtract the space which
+ * is reserved for the index.
+ */
+ subtract_lebs = min_idx_lebs;
+
+ /* Take into account that GC reserves one LEB for its own needs */
+ subtract_lebs += 1;
+
+ /*
+ * The GC journal head LEB is not really accessible. And since
+ * different write types go to different heads, we may count only on
+ * one head's space.
+ */
+ subtract_lebs += c->jhead_cnt - 1;
+
+ /* We also reserve one LEB for deletions, which bypass budgeting */
+ subtract_lebs += 1;
+
+ available -= (long long)subtract_lebs * c->leb_size;
+
+ /* Subtract the dead space which is not available for use */
+ available -= c->lst.total_dead;
+
+ /*
+ * Subtract dark space, which might or might not be usable - it depends
+ * on the data which we have on the media and which will be written. If
+ * this is a lot of uncompressed or not-compressible data, the dark
+ * space cannot be used.
+ */
+ available -= c->lst.total_dark;
+
+ /*
+ * However, there is more dark space. The index may be bigger than
+ * @min_idx_lebs. Those extra LEBs are assumed to be available, but
+ * their dark space is not included in total_dark, so it is subtracted
+ * here.
+ */
+ if (c->lst.idx_lebs > min_idx_lebs) {
+ subtract_lebs = c->lst.idx_lebs - min_idx_lebs;
+ available -= subtract_lebs * c->dark_wm;
+ }
+
+ /* The calculations are rough and may end up with a negative number */
+ return available > 0 ? available : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * can_use_rp - check whether the user is allowed to use reserved pool.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * UBIFS has so-called "reserved pool" which is flash space reserved
+ * for the superuser and for uses whose UID/GID is recorded in UBIFS superblock.
+ * This function checks whether current user is allowed to use reserved pool.
+ * Returns %1 current user is allowed to use reserved pool and %0 otherwise.
+ */
+static int can_use_rp(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ if (uid_eq(current_fsuid(), c->rp_uid) || capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) ||
+ (!gid_eq(c->rp_gid, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID) && in_group_p(c->rp_gid)))
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * do_budget_space - reserve flash space for index and data growth.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function makes sure UBIFS has enough free LEBs for index growth and
+ * data.
+ *
+ * When budgeting index space, UBIFS reserves thrice as many LEBs as the index
+ * would take if it was consolidated and written to the flash. This guarantees
+ * that the "in-the-gaps" commit method always succeeds and UBIFS will always
+ * be able to commit dirty index. So this function basically adds amount of
+ * budgeted index space to the size of the current index, multiplies this by 3,
+ * and makes sure this does not exceed the amount of free LEBs.
+ *
+ * Notes about @c->bi.min_idx_lebs and @c->lst.idx_lebs variables:
+ * o @c->lst.idx_lebs is the number of LEBs the index currently uses. It might
+ * be large, because UBIFS does not do any index consolidation as long as
+ * there is free space. IOW, the index may take a lot of LEBs, but the LEBs
+ * will contain a lot of dirt.
+ * o @c->bi.min_idx_lebs is the number of LEBS the index presumably takes. IOW,
+ * the index may be consolidated to take up to @c->bi.min_idx_lebs LEBs.
+ *
+ * This function returns zero in case of success, and %-ENOSPC in case of
+ * failure.
+ */
+static int do_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ long long outstanding, available;
+ int lebs, rsvd_idx_lebs, min_idx_lebs;
+
+ /* First budget index space */
+ min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+
+ /* Now 'min_idx_lebs' contains number of LEBs to reserve */
+ if (min_idx_lebs > c->lst.idx_lebs)
+ rsvd_idx_lebs = min_idx_lebs - c->lst.idx_lebs;
+ else
+ rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * The number of LEBs that are available to be used by the index is:
+ *
+ * @c->lst.empty_lebs + @c->freeable_cnt + @c->idx_gc_cnt -
+ * @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs
+ *
+ * @c->lst.empty_lebs are available because they are empty.
+ * @c->freeable_cnt are available because they contain only free and
+ * dirty space, @c->idx_gc_cnt are available because they are index
+ * LEBs that have been garbage collected and are awaiting the commit
+ * before they can be used. And the in-the-gaps method will grab these
+ * if it needs them. @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs are empty LEBs that have
+ * already been allocated for some purpose.
+ *
+ * Note, @c->idx_gc_cnt is included to both @c->lst.empty_lebs (because
+ * these LEBs are empty) and to @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs (because they
+ * are taken until after the commit).
+ *
+ * Note, @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs may temporarily be higher by one
+ * because of the way we serialize LEB allocations and budgeting. See a
+ * comment in 'ubifs_find_free_space()'.
+ */
+ lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
+ c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
+ if (unlikely(rsvd_idx_lebs > lebs)) {
+ dbg_budg("out of indexing space: min_idx_lebs %d (old %d), rsvd_idx_lebs %d",
+ min_idx_lebs, c->bi.min_idx_lebs, rsvd_idx_lebs);
+ return -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ available = ubifs_calc_available(c, min_idx_lebs);
+ outstanding = c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+
+ if (unlikely(available < outstanding)) {
+ dbg_budg("out of data space: available %lld, outstanding %lld",
+ available, outstanding);
+ return -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ if (available - outstanding <= c->rp_size && !can_use_rp(c))
+ return -ENOSPC;
+
+ c->bi.min_idx_lebs = min_idx_lebs;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_idx_growth - calculate approximate index growth from budgeting request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ *
+ * For now we assume each new node adds one znode. But this is rather poor
+ * approximation, though.
+ */
+static int calc_idx_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+ const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+ int znodes;
+
+ znodes = req->new_ino + (req->new_page << UBIFS_BLOCKS_PER_PAGE_SHIFT) +
+ req->new_dent;
+ return znodes * c->max_idx_node_sz;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_data_growth - calculate approximate amount of new data from budgeting
+ * request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ */
+static int calc_data_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+ const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+ int data_growth;
+
+ data_growth = req->new_ino ? c->bi.inode_budget : 0;
+ if (req->new_page)
+ data_growth += c->bi.page_budget;
+ if (req->new_dent)
+ data_growth += c->bi.dent_budget;
+ data_growth += req->new_ino_d;
+ return data_growth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_dd_growth - calculate approximate amount of data which makes other data
+ * dirty from budgeting request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ */
+static int calc_dd_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+ const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+ int dd_growth;
+
+ dd_growth = req->dirtied_page ? c->bi.page_budget : 0;
+
+ if (req->dirtied_ino)
+ dd_growth += c->bi.inode_budget << (req->dirtied_ino - 1);
+ if (req->mod_dent)
+ dd_growth += c->bi.dent_budget;
+ dd_growth += req->dirtied_ino_d;
+ return dd_growth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_budget_space - ensure there is enough space to complete an operation.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budget request
+ *
+ * This function allocates budget for an operation. It uses pessimistic
+ * approximation of how much flash space the operation needs. The goal of this
+ * function is to make sure UBIFS always has flash space to flush all dirty
+ * pages, dirty inodes, and dirty znodes (liability). This function may force
+ * commit, garbage-collection or write-back. Returns zero in case of success,
+ * %-ENOSPC if there is no free space and other negative error codes in case of
+ * failures.
+ */
+int ubifs_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+ int uninitialized_var(cmt_retries), uninitialized_var(wb_retries);
+ int err, idx_growth, data_growth, dd_growth, retried = 0;
+
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_page <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_page <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_dent <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->mod_dent <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_ino <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_ino <= 4);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA * 4);
+ ubifs_assert(!(req->new_ino_d & 7));
+ ubifs_assert(!(req->dirtied_ino_d & 7));
+
+ data_growth = calc_data_growth(c, req);
+ dd_growth = calc_dd_growth(c, req);
+ if (!data_growth && !dd_growth)
+ return 0;
+ idx_growth = calc_idx_growth(c, req);
+
+again:
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.idx_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.data_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.dd_growth >= 0);
+
+ if (unlikely(c->bi.nospace) && (c->bi.nospace_rp || !can_use_rp(c))) {
+ dbg_budg("no space");
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+ return -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ c->bi.idx_growth += idx_growth;
+ c->bi.data_growth += data_growth;
+ c->bi.dd_growth += dd_growth;
+
+ err = do_budget_space(c);
+ if (likely(!err)) {
+ req->idx_growth = idx_growth;
+ req->data_growth = data_growth;
+ req->dd_growth = dd_growth;
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* Restore the old values */
+ c->bi.idx_growth -= idx_growth;
+ c->bi.data_growth -= data_growth;
+ c->bi.dd_growth -= dd_growth;
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+
+ if (req->fast) {
+ dbg_budg("no space for fast budgeting");
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ err = make_free_space(c);
+ cond_resched();
+ if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+ dbg_budg("try again");
+ goto again;
+ } else if (err == -ENOSPC) {
+ if (!retried) {
+ retried = 1;
+ dbg_budg("-ENOSPC, but anyway try once again");
+ goto again;
+ }
+ dbg_budg("FS is full, -ENOSPC");
+ c->bi.nospace = 1;
+ if (can_use_rp(c) || c->rp_size == 0)
+ c->bi.nospace_rp = 1;
+ smp_wmb();
+ } else
+ ubifs_err("cannot budget space, error %d", err);
+ return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_release_budget - release budgeted free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budget request
+ *
+ * This function releases the space budgeted by 'ubifs_budget_space()'. Note,
+ * since the index changes (which were budgeted for in @req->idx_growth) will
+ * only be written to the media on commit, this function moves the index budget
+ * from @c->bi.idx_growth to @c->bi.uncommitted_idx. The latter will be zeroed
+ * by the commit operation.
+ */
+void ubifs_release_budget(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_page <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_page <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_dent <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->mod_dent <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_ino <= 1);
+ ubifs_assert(req->new_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_ino <= 4);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA * 4);
+ ubifs_assert(!(req->new_ino_d & 7));
+ ubifs_assert(!(req->dirtied_ino_d & 7));
+ if (!req->recalculate) {
+ ubifs_assert(req->idx_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(req->data_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(req->dd_growth >= 0);
+ }
+
+ if (req->recalculate) {
+ req->data_growth = calc_data_growth(c, req);
+ req->dd_growth = calc_dd_growth(c, req);
+ req->idx_growth = calc_idx_growth(c, req);
+ }
+
+ if (!req->data_growth && !req->dd_growth)
+ return;
+
+ c->bi.nospace = c->bi.nospace_rp = 0;
+ smp_wmb();
+
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ c->bi.idx_growth -= req->idx_growth;
+ c->bi.uncommitted_idx += req->idx_growth;
+ c->bi.data_growth -= req->data_growth;
+ c->bi.dd_growth -= req->dd_growth;
+ c->bi.min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.idx_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.data_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.dd_growth >= 0);
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.min_idx_lebs < c->main_lebs);
+ ubifs_assert(!(c->bi.idx_growth & 7));
+ ubifs_assert(!(c->bi.data_growth & 7));
+ ubifs_assert(!(c->bi.dd_growth & 7));
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_convert_page_budget - convert budget of a new page.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function converts budget which was allocated for a new page of data to
+ * the budget of changing an existing page of data. The latter is smaller than
+ * the former, so this function only does simple re-calculation and does not
+ * involve any write-back.
+ */
+void ubifs_convert_page_budget(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ /* Release the index growth reservation */
+ c->bi.idx_growth -= c->max_idx_node_sz << UBIFS_BLOCKS_PER_PAGE_SHIFT;
+ /* Release the data growth reservation */
+ c->bi.data_growth -= c->bi.page_budget;
+ /* Increase the dirty data growth reservation instead */
+ c->bi.dd_growth += c->bi.page_budget;
+ /* And re-calculate the indexing space reservation */
+ c->bi.min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_release_dirty_inode_budget - release dirty inode budget.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @ui: UBIFS inode to release the budget for
+ *
+ * This function releases budget corresponding to a dirty inode. It is usually
+ * called when after the inode has been written to the media and marked as
+ * clean. It also causes the "no space" flags to be cleared.
+ */
+void ubifs_release_dirty_inode_budget(struct ubifs_info *c,
+ struct ubifs_inode *ui)
+{
+ struct ubifs_budget_req req;
+
+ memset(&req, 0, sizeof(struct ubifs_budget_req));
+ /* The "no space" flags will be cleared because dd_growth is > 0 */
+ req.dd_growth = c->bi.inode_budget + ALIGN(ui->data_len, 8);
+ ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);
+}
+#endif
+
/**
* ubifs_reported_space - calculate reported free space.
* @c: the UBIFS file-system description object
@@ -111,3 +657,75 @@ long long ubifs_reported_space(const struct ubifs_info *c, long long free)
free *= factor;
return div_u64(free, divisor);
}
+
+#ifndef __UBOOT__
+/**
+ * ubifs_get_free_space_nolock - return amount of free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates amount of free space to report to user-space.
+ *
+ * Because UBIFS may introduce substantial overhead (the index, node headers,
+ * alignment, wastage at the end of LEBs, etc), it cannot report real amount of
+ * free flash space it has (well, because not all dirty space is reclaimable,
+ * UBIFS does not actually know the real amount). If UBIFS did so, it would
+ * bread user expectations about what free space is. Users seem to accustomed
+ * to assume that if the file-system reports N bytes of free space, they would
+ * be able to fit a file of N bytes to the FS. This almost works for
+ * traditional file-systems, because they have way less overhead than UBIFS.
+ * So, to keep users happy, UBIFS tries to take the overhead into account.
+ */
+long long ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ int rsvd_idx_lebs, lebs;
+ long long available, outstanding, free;
+
+ ubifs_assert(c->bi.min_idx_lebs == ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c));
+ outstanding = c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+ available = ubifs_calc_available(c, c->bi.min_idx_lebs);
+
+ /*
+ * When reporting free space to user-space, UBIFS guarantees that it is
+ * possible to write a file of free space size. This means that for
+ * empty LEBs we may use more precise calculations than
+ * 'ubifs_calc_available()' is using. Namely, we know that in empty
+ * LEBs we would waste only @c->leb_overhead bytes, not @c->dark_wm.
+ * Thus, amend the available space.
+ *
+ * Note, the calculations below are similar to what we have in
+ * 'do_budget_space()', so refer there for comments.
+ */
+ if (c->bi.min_idx_lebs > c->lst.idx_lebs)
+ rsvd_idx_lebs = c->bi.min_idx_lebs - c->lst.idx_lebs;
+ else
+ rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
+ lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
+ c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
+ lebs -= rsvd_idx_lebs;
+ available += lebs * (c->dark_wm - c->leb_overhead);
+
+ if (available > outstanding)
+ free = ubifs_reported_space(c, available - outstanding);
+ else
+ free = 0;
+ return free;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_get_free_space - return amount of free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns amount of free space to report to
+ * user-space.
+ */
+long long ubifs_get_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ long long free;
+
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ free = ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(c);
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+
+ return free;
+}
+#endif