cfi_cmdset_0001.c: Excessive erase suspends
Anders Grafström
grfstrm at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 18 18:11:06 EDT 2008
Jared Hulbert wrote:
> 2) Did you check that the MTD is configured to treat this flash with
> the correct bus width? I've been burned trying to figure out why a
> 16bit configuration was missing half the data, turned out I had it
> configured for 32bit MTD accesses.
I think I got it right.
> 3) I'd like to see that you can't use flash_eraseall and hexdump
> /dev/mtdX to see this behavior. Or maybe you could try to create a
> simple test that would suspend an erase 10K times and verify the erase
See below.
> A solution might be an small delay before a
> write suspends the erase.
udelay(100) right before the suspend command seems to work for me.
It reduces the suspend count to about 1700 and no errors reported
by JFFS2.
I ran this routine in a standalone test program from u-boot:
void test_flash_erase_suspend(void)
{
volatile unsigned int *flash = (unsigned int *)0x41040000;
unsigned int i;
unsigned int suspends = 0;
unsigned int words = 10;
/* Make sure there's something to erase */
for (i = 0; i < 0x10000; i++) {
if (flash[i] == 0xffffffff) {
flash[i] = 0x00400040;
flash[i] = 0;
while ((flash[i] & 0x00800080) != 0x00800080);
}
}
/* Clear status */
flash[0] = 0x00500050;
/* Erase */
flash[0] = 0x00200020;
flash[0] = 0x00d000d0;
while (1) {
/* Suspend */
flash[0] = 0x00b000b0;
suspends++;
/* Short delay */
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++);
/* Resume */
flash[0] = 0x00d000d0;
flash[0] = 0x00700070;
/* Erase done ? */
if ((flash[i] & 0x00800080) == 0x00800080) {
printf("\nStatus %08x\n", flash[i]);
break;
}
/* Short delay */
for (i = 0; i < 3500; i++);
}
/* Read array */
flash[0] = 0x00ff00ff;
/* Show the first 10 failed words */
for (i = 0; i < 0x10000; i++) {
if (flash[i] != 0xffffffff) {
printf("%08x\n", flash[i]);
if (--words == 0)
break;
}
}
printf("%d suspends\n", suspends);
}
The delay loop doing 3500 loops seems to be the critical one.
Most of the time I get something like this, which I assume
means 'Operation abort'.
Status 00a000a0
aa695555
695a5555
5a555555
a56a5555
59555555
595a5555
6aa65555
69a65555
69595555
95965555
5647 suspends
But sometimes I get this:
Status 00a00080
aa690000
696a0000
5a950000
a66a0000
59590000
595a0000
6a960000
69a60000
69590000
95960000
5625 suspends
Here's a link to the document that I previously referred to:
http://www.spansion.com/application_notes/erase_susp_appnote_00_a1_e.pdf
/Anders
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