Numonyx NOR and chip->mutex bug?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Michael Cashwell <mboards at prograde.net> wrote on 2011/02/07 16:10:03:
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> On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Michael Cashwell wrote:
>
> >> I won't worry about this until you test my patch and still have a problem :) Please test it.
> >
> > My plan is to retest your patch against a pristine copy of the file and report back. Unfortunately this has to wait until Monday as I don't have access to the hardware over the weekend.
>
> OK, I retested Joakim's patch from 4-feb on a clean source file and it doesn't help my problem:
>
> [cashwell at mec-fedora14 linux-2.6.35.7-arm-gum]$ cat ../joakim.patch | patch -p1
> patching file drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1227 (offset -18 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 1266 (offset -18 lines).
>
> (The offsets are just that we're on slightly different kernel versions, I assume. It applies OK.)

Yes, I got an extra patch in my driver as my chips both have top and bottom boot sector.


> #### Exporting kernel linux-2.6.35.7-arm-gum to netboot.
> Image Name:   2.6.35.7-gum1
> Created:      Mon Feb  7 08:22:31 2011
> Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size:    1919908 Bytes = 1874.91 kB = 1.83 MB
> Load Address: 0xA1000000
> Entry Point:  0xA1000000
>
> Booted and then did ubiformat, mount, rsync of about 20MB, and then during the umount of that file system:
>
> UBI error: ubi_io_write: error -30 while writing 1968 bytes to PEB 17:37528, written 0 bytes
> UBI warning: ubi_eba_write_leb: failed to write data to PEB 17
> UBI warning: ubi_ro_mode: switch to read-only mode
>
> which I'd previously traced to the -EROFS return in do_write_buffer because it thinks it got a block-locked error during write. I've also seen that sometimes see the bad Vpp error too. (Why one of those has a printk and not the other I don't know.)
>

Seems like you have another problem, does it only occur at umount? Perhaps UBI does something at umount
that the driver doesn't agree with?
Anyhow, will submit my patch soon, I hope you still agree that it fixes an bug. Just not your bug :(

I am on PPC BTW.

 Jocke