[PATCH v2] gpmi-nand: Handle ECC Errors in erased pages

[Markus Pargmann]

On Tuesday 26 April 2016 19:30:02 Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:35:12 +0200
> Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > ECC is only calculated for written pages. As erased pages are not
> > actively written the ECC is always invalid. For this purpose the
> > Hardware BCH unit is able to check for erased pages and does not raise
> > an ECC error in this case. This behaviour can be influenced using the
> > BCH_MODE register which sets the number of allowed bitflips in an erased
> > page. Unfortunately the unit is not capable of fixing the bitflips in
> > memory.
> > 
> > To avoid complete software checks for erased pages, we can simply check
> > buffers with uncorrectable ECC errors because we know that any erased
> > page with errors is uncorrectable by the BCH unit.
> > 
> > This patch adds the generic nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk() to gpmi-nand
> > to correct erased pages. To have the valid data in the buffer before
> > using them, this patch moves the read_page_swap_end() call before the
> > ECC status checking for-loop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
> > [Squashed patches by Stefan and Boris to check ECC area]
> > Cc: Stefan Christ <s.christ at phytec.de>
> > Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> 
> Applied, thanks.

Great, thanks all of you.

Best Regards,

Markus

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