DATA ERASURE METHOD FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE, AND APPARATUS

• US 20180173620A1
• Filed: 02/14/2018
• Published: 06/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2015
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CEN, Xinxing, ZENG, Zhen
• Application Number:
  US15/896,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20180173620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/7205 Cleaning, compaction, garbage collection, erase control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0616 in relation to life time, e.g. increasing Mean Time Between Failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0652 Erasing, e.g. deleting, data cleaning, moving of data to a wastebasket
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0679 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]

Abstract

A data erasure solution for a solid state drive is provided. The solid state drive includes a first target storage area and a second target storage area, each of the first target storage area and the second target storage area includes an idle block and an occupied block. The first target storage area stores only data of a first target application. The second target storage area stores only data of a second target application. The solid state drive can perform data erasure operation on target storage areas independently according to idle state of applications.

Claims

1. A data erasure method for a solid state drive, wherein the solid state drive comprises a storage controller and a storage medium, the storage medium comprises a first target storage area, the first target storage area comprises an idle block and an occupied block, the first target storage area stores only data of a first target application, and the method comprises:

determining, by the storage controller, an occupied block that requires a data erasure operation from the first target storage area when the first target application is in an idle state;

reading, by the storage controller, valid data from the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the first target storage area;

writing, by the storage controller, the valid data into the idle block in the first target storage area; and

erasing, by the storage controller, data in the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the first target storage area.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the storage controller, an idle indication message sent by an application server, wherein the application server runs the first target application, and the idle indication message indicates that the first target application is in the idle state.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the storage controller, that a quantity of idle blocks in the first target storage area is less than a first threshold.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining that a quantity of invalid pages is greater than a second threshold in the occupied block that requires a data erasure operation.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the solid state drive further comprises a block unallocated to the first target storage area;

and

wherein the method further comprises;

replacing, by the storage controller, a block in the first target storage area with the unallocated block according to wear leveling of the first target storage area.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the solid state drive further comprises a second target storage area, the second target storage area comprises an idle block and an occupied block, the second target storage area stores only data of a second target application;

and

wherein the method further comprises operations of;

reading, by the storage controller, valid data from the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

writing, by the storage controller, the valid data into the idle block in the second target storage area; and

erasing, by the storage controller, data in the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

wherein the operations on the second target storage area do not affect the first target application.

7. A solid state drive comprising a storage controller and a storage medium, the storage medium comprises a first target storage area, the first target storage area comprises an idle block and an occupied block, the first target storage area stores only data of a first target application, and the storage controller is configured to:

determine an occupied block that requires a data erasure operation from the first target storage area when the first target application is in an idle state;

read valid data from the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the first target storage area;

write the valid data into the idle block in the first target storage area; and

erase data in the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the first target storage area.

8. The solid state drive according to claim 7, wherein the storage controller is further configured to:

receive an idle indication message sent by an application server, wherein the application server runs the first target application, and the idle indication message indicates that the first target application is in the idle state.

9. The solid state drive according to claim 7, wherein the storage controller is further configured to:

determine that a quantity of idle blocks in the first target storage area is less than a first threshold.

10. The solid state drive according to claim 7, wherein the storage controller is further configured to:

determine that a quantity of invalid pages is greater than a second threshold in the occupied block that requires a data erasure operation.

11. The solid state drive according to claim 7, wherein the storage controller is further configured to:

replace a block in the first target storage area with an unallocated block according to wear leveling of the first target storage area.

12. The solid state drive according to claim 7, wherein the solid state drive further comprises a second target storage area, the second target storage area comprises an idle block and an occupied block, the second target storage area stores only data of a second target application;

and

wherein the storage controller is further configured to perform operations of;

reading valid data from the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

writing the valid data into the idle block in the second target storage area; and

erasing data in the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

wherein the operations on the second target storage area do not affect the first target application.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a storage controller in a solid state drive, cause the storage controller to:

determine an occupied block that requires a data erasure operation from a first target storage area in the solid state drive when a first target application is in an idle state;

wherein the first target storage area stores only data of the first target application;

read valid data from the occupied block that requires a data erasure operation from the first target storage area;

write the valid data into an idle block in the first target storage area; and

erase data in the occupied block that requires a data erasure operation from the first target storage area.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising instructions that when executed by the storage controller, cause the storage controller to:

receive an idle indication message sent by an application server, wherein the application server runs the first target application, and the idle indication message indicates that the first target application is in the idle state.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising instructions that when executed by the storage controller, cause the storage controller to:

determine that a quantity of idle blocks in the first target storage area is less than a first threshold.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising instructions that when executed by the storage controller, cause the storage controller to:

determine that a quantity of invalid pages is greater than a second threshold in the occupied block that requires a data erasure operation.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising instructions that when executed by the storage controller, cause the storage controller to:

replace a block in the first target storage area with an unallocated block according to wear leveling of the first target storage area.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising instructions that when executed by the storage controller, cause the storage controller to perform operations of:

reading valid data from the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

writing the valid data into the idle block in the second target storage area; and

erasing data in the occupied block that requires the data erasure operation from the second target storage area;

wherein the operations on the second target storage area do not affect the first target application.