Progress recording method and recovering method for encoding operation on storage device

• US 9,323,622 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2015
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Original Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Inventors: Li, Shou-Di, Wu, Guang-Hui, Shen, Hai-Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): THAI, TUAN V
• Application Number:
  US14/931,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20160055063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 174 Days
• Field of Search: 711/100, 711/154, 711/162, 711/163, 711/170
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1402 Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1441 Resetting or repowering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/16 Protection against loss of memory contents contains no material, see G06F11/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/85 Active fault masking without idle spares active fault masking without idle spare hardware where processing functionality is redundant G06F11/2035

Abstract

A recovering method is adapted to an encoding operation performed on a storage area of a storage device. The recovering method includes: reading a variable set, wherein the encoding operation comprises a plurality of sub-operations, and each of the sub-operations is corresponding to at least one flag variable in the variable set; determining whether any one of the sub-operations is interrupted according to the variable set; when one of the sub-operations is interrupted, recovering the sub-operation according to the at least one flag variable corresponding to the sub-operation; and carrying on the encoding operation according to a process recorded by the flag variables in the variable set.

Claims

1. A recovering method, adapted to an encoding operation performed on a storage area of a storage device, the recovering method comprising:

reading a variable set, wherein the encoding operation comprises a plurality of sub-operations, and each of the sub-operations is corresponding to at least one flag variable in the variable set;

determining whether any one of the sub-operations is interrupted according to the variable set;

when one of the sub-operations is interrupted, recovering the sub-operation according to the at least one flag variable corresponding to the sub-operation; and

carrying on the encoding operation according to a process recorded by the flag variables in the variable set.

2. The recovering method according to claim 1, wherein the variable set further comprises a path of the storage area and a type and a direction of the encoding operation, the type of the encoding operation is encryption, decryption, re-encryption, or reverse re-encryption, and the recovering method further comprises:

carrying on the encoding operation according to the path of the storage area, the type and the direction of the encoding operation, and the progress recorded by the flag variables in the variable set.

3. The recovering method according to claim 1, wherein the variable set is stored in the storage area or in another storage area different from the storage area.

4. The recovering method according to claim 1, wherein one of the sub-operations is corresponding to one of the flag variables, the one flag variable is equal to a first value or a second value, and the recovering method further comprises:

when the one flag variable is equal to the first value, re-executing the sub-operation.

5. The recovering method according to claim 1, wherein one of the sub-operations is corresponding to one of the flag variables, the sub-operation is to update a progress variable stored in the storage area, and the step of recovering the interrupted sub-operation comprises:

when the one flag variable is not equal to the progress variable, setting the progress variable to be equal to the one flag variable.

6. The recovering method according to claim 1, wherein one of the sub-operations is corresponding to a first flag variable and a second flag variable among the flag variables, and the step of recovering the interrupted sub-operation comprises:

when the first flag variable is not equal to the second flag variable, setting the first flag variable to be equal to the second flag variable.

7. The recovering method according to claim 6, wherein the encoding operation comprises a backup sub-operation, the backup sub-operation backs up data in the storage area into another storage area different from the storage area before the sub-operation corresponding to the first flag variable and the second flag variable is executed, and the step of recovering the interrupted sub-operation further comprises:

recovering data in a section of the storage area defined by the first flag variable and the second flag variable by using the backup data of the storage area.

8. The recovering method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether to execute the recovering method according to whether the variable set is stored.