/* * Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2006 * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA * * Author: Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) */ #ifndef __UBI_USER_H__ #define __UBI_USER_H__ /* * UBI volume creation * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * UBI volumes are created via the %UBI_IOCMKVOL IOCTL command of UBI character * device. A &struct ubi_mkvol_req object has to be properly filled and a * pointer to it has to be passed to the IOCTL. * * UBI volume deletion * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * To delete a volume, the %UBI_IOCRMVOL IOCTL command of the UBI character * device should be used. A pointer to the 32-bit volume ID hast to be passed * to the IOCTL. * * UBI volume re-size * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * To re-size a volume, the %UBI_IOCRSVOL IOCTL command of the UBI character * device should be used. A &struct ubi_rsvol_req object has to be properly * filled and a pointer to it has to be passed to the IOCTL. * * UBI volume update * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * Volume update should be done via the %UBI_IOCVOLUP IOCTL command of the * corresponding UBI volume character device. A pointer to a 64-bit update * size should be passed to the IOCTL. After then, UBI expects user to write * this number of bytes to the volume character device. The update is finished * when the claimed number of bytes is passed. So, the volume update sequence * is something like: * * fd = open("/dev/my_volume"); * ioctl(fd, UBI_IOCVOLUP, &image_size); * write(fd, buf, image_size); * close(fd); */ /* * When a new volume is created, users may either specify the volume number they * want to create or to let UBI automatically assign a volume number using this * constant. */ #define UBI_VOL_NUM_AUTO (-1) /* Maximum volume name length */ #define UBI_MAX_VOLUME_NAME 127 /* IOCTL commands of UBI character devices */ #define UBI_IOC_MAGIC 'o' /* Create an UBI volume */ #define UBI_IOCMKVOL _IOW(UBI_IOC_MAGIC, 0, struct ubi_mkvol_req) /* Remove an UBI volume */ #define UBI_IOCRMVOL _IOW(UBI_IOC_MAGIC, 1, int32_t) /* Re-size an UBI volume */ #define UBI_IOCRSVOL _IOW(UBI_IOC_MAGIC, 2, struct ubi_rsvol_req) /* IOCTL commands of UBI volume character devices */ #define UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC 'O' /* Start UBI volume update */ #define UBI_IOCVOLUP _IOW(UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC, 0, int64_t) /* An eraseblock erasure command, used for debugging, disabled by default */ #define UBI_IOCEBER _IOW(UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC, 1, int32_t) /* * UBI volume type constants. * * @UBI_DYNAMIC_VOLUME: dynamic volume * @UBI_STATIC_VOLUME: static volume */ enum { UBI_DYNAMIC_VOLUME = 3, UBI_STATIC_VOLUME = 4 }; /** * struct ubi_mkvol_req - volume description data structure used in * volume creation requests. * @vol_id: volume number * @alignment: volume alignment * @bytes: volume size in bytes * @vol_type: volume type (%UBI_DYNAMIC_VOLUME or %UBI_STATIC_VOLUME) * @padding1: reserved for future, not used * @name_len: volume name length * @padding2: reserved for future, not used * @name: volume name * * This structure is used by userspace programs when creating new volumes. The * @used_bytes field is only necessary when creating static volumes. * * The @alignment field specifies the required alignment of the volume logical * eraseblock. This means, that the size of logical eraseblocks will be aligned * to this number, i.e., * (UBI device logical eraseblock size) mod (@alignment) = 0. * * To put it differently, the logical eraseblock of this volume may be slightly * shortened in order to make it properly aligned. The alignment has to be * multiple of the flash minimal input/output unit, or %1 to utilize the entire * available space of logical eraseblocks. * * The @alignment field may be useful, for example, when one wants to maintain * a block device on top of an UBI volume. In this case, it is desirable to fit * an integer number of blocks in logical eraseblocks of this UBI volume. With * alignment it is possible to update this volume using plane UBI volume image * BLOBs, without caring about how to properly align them. */ struct ubi_mkvol_req { int32_t vol_id; int32_t alignment; int64_t bytes; int8_t vol_type; int8_t padding1; int16_t name_len; int8_t padding2[4]; char name[UBI_MAX_VOLUME_NAME+1]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); /** * struct ubi_rsvol_req - a data structure used in volume re-size requests. * @vol_id: ID of the volume to re-size * @bytes: new size of the volume in bytes * * Re-sizing is possible for both dynamic and static volumes. But while dynamic * volumes may be re-sized arbitrarily, static volumes cannot be made to be * smaller then the number of bytes they bear. To arbitrarily shrink a static * volume, it must be wiped out first (by means of volume update operation with * zero number of bytes). */ struct ubi_rsvol_req { int64_t bytes; int32_t vol_id; } __attribute__ ((packed)); #endif /* __UBI_USER_H__ */