gpmi-mtd ecc regression

[Huang Shijie]

于 2013年10月19日 01:03, Tim Harvey 写道:
> Huang,
>
> The patch you made to obtain ECC info from the chip
> (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand?id=2febcdf84b75aae627c61f0a5bf531a69299966c)
> has caused a regression for an i.MX6 board I'm working with that uses
> NAND and ubifs.
>
> I'm using a Micron MT29F8G08
> (http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/flash/nand/2_4_8gb_nand_m49a.pdf)
> which has:
> page size: 2112 bytes (2048 + 64 bytes)
> block size: 1056 words (1024 + 32 words)
> plane size: 2 planes x 1024 blocks per plane
> device size: 2Gb: 2048 blocks
> ecc: 4bit
>
> The legacy_set_geometry function comes up with:
> gf_len=13
> ecc_strength=8
> page_size=2112
> metadata_size=10
> ecc_chunk_size=512
> ecc_chunk_count=4
> payload_size=2048
> auxiliary_size=16
> auxiliary_status_offset=12
> block_mark_byte_offset=1999
>
> and the new set_geometry_by_ecc_info comes up with:
> gf_len=13
> ecc_strength=4
> page_size=2084
> metadata_size=10
> ecc_chunk_size=512
> ecc_chunk_count=4
> payload_size=2048
> auxiliary_size=16
> auxiliary_status_offset=12
> block_mark_byte_offset=2018
> block_mark_bit_offset=4
>
> There are two discrepancies above:
>   a) ecc_strength - this part has 4bit ecc but being detected as 8?
>   b) page_size - the legacy function includes oob in page size, and the
> new one does not
>
> which is correct?
>
In theory, both are correct.

I am in an embarrass state now:
[1] we can support the jffs2, when we use the set_geometry_by_ecc_info() 
to set the NAND layout.

[2] if we still use the legacy_set_geometry() to set the NAND layout, we 
can not support the jffs2 for GPMI.


When i submitted the gpmi to the kernel, the mtd code can not provide me 
the ECC info. I had to use all the OOB
with legacy_set_geometry(). After i submitted several patches for mtd, 
it can provide us the ECC info now, so i switch
to use the set_geometry_by_ecc_info().

it's easy to fix your problem with a patch like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c |    3 ++-
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand
index 5a1bbc7..8eeead6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
@@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ static int legacy_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)

  int common_nfc_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
  {
-       return set_geometry_by_ecc_info(this) ? 0 : legacy_set_geometry(this);
+       return (legacy_set_geometry(this) == 0) ? 0 :
+               set_geometry_by_ecc_info(this);
  }

  struct dma_chan *get_dma_chan(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But after apply this patch, the gpmi may can not support the JFFS2 any more.

thanks
Huang Shijie



> With your patch using the new function to detect ECC from the part,
> booting to a ubifs that was flashed with uboot (which incidentally
> also set ecc_strength=8) I get endless ECC failures:
>
> [    3.946205] UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi0
> [    3.946585] UBI warning: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while
> reading 64 bytes from PEB 0:0, read only 64 bytes, retry
> [    3.946785] UBI warning: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while
> reading 64 bytes from PEB 0:0, read only 64 bytes, retry
> [    3.946983] UBI warning: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while
> reading 64 bytes from PEB 0:0, read only 64 bytes, retry
> [    3.947177] UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while
> reading 64 bytes from PEB 0:0, read 64 bytes
> [    3.947186] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc3+ #253
> [    3.947192] Backtrace:
> [    3.947220] [<8001265c>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x10c) from
> [<800127fc>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
> [    3.947230]  r6:00000040 r5:ffffffb6 r4:00000000 r3:00000000
> [    3.947247] [<800127e4>] (show_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<80661820>]
> (dump_stack+0x78/0x94)
> [    3.947269] [<806617a8>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x94) from [<803b4ebc>]
> (ubi_io_read+0x12c/0x364)
> [    3.947274]  r4:bf09e000 r3:00000000
> [    3.947285] [<803b4d90>] (ubi_io_read+0x0/0x364) from [<803b533c>]
> (ubi_io_read_ec_hdr+0x60/0x330)
> [    3.947295] [<803b52dc>] (ubi_io_read_ec_hdr+0x0/0x330) from
> [<803bb2dc>] (ubi_attach+0x160/0x15f0)
> [    3.947304] [<803bb17c>] (ubi_attach+0x0/0x15f0) from [<803ae5f0>]
> (ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x794/0xf18)
> [    3.947319] [<803ade5c>] (ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x0/0xf18) from
> [<808d9850>] (ubi_init+0x1f8/0x2bc)
> [    3.947330] [<808d9658>] (ubi_init+0x0/0x2bc) from [<80008880>]
> (do_one_initcall+0xdc/0x194)
> [    3.947342] [<800087a4>] (do_one_initcall+0x0/0x194) from
> [<808aeb94>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x104/0x1d0)
> [    3.952386] [<808d9658>] (ubi_init+0x0/0x2bc) from [<80008880>]
> (do_one_initcall+0xdc/0x194)
> [    3.960828] [<800087a4>] (do_one_initcall+0x0/0x194) from
> [<808aeb94>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x104/0x1d0)
> [    3.967418] [<800087a4>] (do_one_initcall+0x0/0x194) from
> [<808aeb94>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x104/0x1d0)
> [    3.967426] [<808aea90>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x0/0x1d0) from
> [<8065c74c>] (kernel_init+0x10/0xec)
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>