UBI - disable subpage verify and use CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE possible?

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hi,

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:52 -0700, Darwin Rambo wrote:
> Hello Artem,
> 
> Can you please clarify something for me?
> 
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html#L_subpage_verify_fail 
> 
> I read this note and still, CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE is very
> useful for me.

Ok.

>  The question is, if I don't mind wasting a bit of flash, and
> configure UBI to not do subpage writes and put the EC and VID headers
> on separate pages (for example ubi.mtd=6,4096), does UBI then always
> do page writes and would CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE then work
> reliably for me?

Yes, in this case UBI will never use sub-pages, all writes will be 4KiB
aligned, and the feature should work.

>  Or are there other places in the code that might do subpage writes?

No.

>  So far it seems to work well for me with the verify on and no
> subpages for the headers. 

Right.

> By the way, the standard nand_verify_buf() function in nand_base.c
> uses readb(chip->IO_ADDR_R) and doesn't use something like
> chip->ecc.read_page() to correct the data so this sounds like a bug to
> me.

Yup. I think this feature was not used by anyone for long time.

>  But I override this to do corrected reads anyways, which works better
> for SLC/MLC flash which can show one or more bit errors in a page
> read.

Just send a patch then :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)