[PATCH 10/14] MTD: nand: add ->badblockbits to specify the minimum number of bits in bad block byte to consider the block good

Maxim Levitsky maximlevitsky at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 08:03:09 EST 2010


This can be used to protect against bitflips in that field, but now mostly
for smartmedia.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |   13 +++++++++----
 include/linux/mtd/nand.h     |    1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index c393df3..88750a6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -335,14 +335,18 @@ static int nand_block_bad(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t ofs, int getchip)
 		bad = cpu_to_le16(chip->read_word(mtd));
 		if (chip->badblockpos & 0x1)
 			bad >>= 8;
-		if ((bad & 0xFF) != 0xff)
-			res = 1;
+		else
+			bad &= 0xFF;
 	} else {
 		chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READOOB, chip->badblockpos, page);
-		if (chip->read_byte(mtd) != 0xff)
-			res = 1;
+		bad = chip->read_byte(mtd);
 	}
 
+	if (likely(chip->badblockbits == 8))
+		res = bad != 0xFF;
+	else
+		res = hweight8(bad) < chip->badblockbits;
+
 	if (getchip)
 		nand_release_device(mtd);
 
@@ -2710,6 +2714,7 @@ static struct nand_flash_dev *nand_get_flash_type(struct mtd_info *mtd,
 	/* Set the bad block position */
 	chip->badblockpos = mtd->writesize > 512 ?
 		NAND_LARGE_BADBLOCK_POS : NAND_SMALL_BADBLOCK_POS;
+	chip->badblockbits = 8;
 
 	/* Get chip options, preserve non chip based options */
 	chip->options &= ~NAND_CHIPOPTIONS_MSK;
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
index ccab9df..27d998e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ struct nand_chip {
 	int		subpagesize;
 	uint8_t		cellinfo;
 	int		badblockpos;
+	int		badblockbits;
 
 	flstate_t	state;
 
-- 
1.6.3.3




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