UBI: fix mean EC calculation

(a + b) / (c + d) != a / c + b / d. The old code errornously
assumed this incorrect formuld. Instead, just sum all erase
counters in a 64-bit variable and divide to the number of EBs
at the end.

Thanks to Adrian Hunter for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
index 05aa3e7daba..96d410e106a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/crc32.h>
+#include <asm/div64.h>
 #include "ubi.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID
@@ -92,27 +93,6 @@ static int add_to_list(struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum, int ec,
 }
 
 /**
- * commit_to_mean_value - commit intermediate results to the final mean erase
- * counter value.
- * @si: scanning information
- *
- * This is a helper function which calculates partial mean erase counter mean
- * value and adds it to the resulting mean value. As we can work only in
- * integer arithmetic and we want to calculate the mean value of erase counter
- * accurately, we first sum erase counter values in @si->ec_sum variable and
- * count these components in @si->ec_count. If this temporary @si->ec_sum is
- * going to overflow, we calculate the partial mean value
- * (@si->ec_sum/@si->ec_count) and add it to @si->mean_ec.
- */
-static void commit_to_mean_value(struct ubi_scan_info *si)
-{
-	si->ec_sum /= si->ec_count;
-	if (si->ec_sum % si->ec_count >= si->ec_count / 2)
-		si->mean_ec += 1;
-	si->mean_ec += si->ec_sum;
-}
-
-/**
  * validate_vid_hdr - check that volume identifier header is correct and
  * consistent.
  * @vid_hdr: the volume identifier header to check
@@ -901,15 +881,8 @@ static int process_eb(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum
 
 adjust_mean_ec:
 	if (!ec_corr) {
-		if (si->ec_sum + ec < ec) {
-			commit_to_mean_value(si);
-			si->ec_sum = 0;
-			si->ec_count = 0;
-		} else {
-			si->ec_sum += ec;
-			si->ec_count += 1;
-		}
-
+		si->ec_sum += ec;
+		si->ec_count += 1;
 		if (ec > si->max_ec)
 			si->max_ec = ec;
 		if (ec < si->min_ec)
@@ -965,9 +938,11 @@ struct ubi_scan_info *ubi_scan(struct ubi_device *ubi)
 
 	dbg_msg("scanning is finished");
 
-	/* Finish mean erase counter calculations */
-	if (si->ec_count)
-		commit_to_mean_value(si);
+	/* Calculate mean erase counter */
+	if (si->ec_count) {
+		do_div(si->ec_sum, si->ec_count);
+		si->mean_ec = si->ec_sum;
+	}
 
 	if (si->is_empty)
 		ubi_msg("empty MTD device detected");