[PATCH V3] Add support for flag status register on Micron chips.

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, April 25, 2014 at 03:34:36 AM, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:03:16AM -0500, Graham Moore wrote:
> > Some new Micron flash chips require reading the flag
> > status register to determine when operations have completed.
> > 
> > Furthermore, chips with multi-die stacks of the 65nm 256Mb QSPI also
> > require reading the status register before reading the flag status
> > register.
> > 
> > This patch adds support for the flag status register in the n25q512ax3
> > and n25q00 Micron QSPI flash chips.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Graham Moore <grmoore at altera.com>
> > ---
> > V3:
> > Rebase to l2-mtd spinor branch.
> > V2:
> > Remove leading underscore in function names.
> > Remove type cast in dev_err call and use the proper format
> > specifier instead.
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c |   51
> >  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h  
> >  |    4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> > b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c index d6f44d5..24b84d8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> > @@ -48,6 +48,25 @@ static int read_sr(struct spi_nor *nor)
> > 
> >  }
> >  
> >  /*
> > 
> > + * Read the flag status register, returning its value in the location
> > + * Return the status register value.
> > + * Returns negative if error occurred.
> > + */
> > +static int read_fsr(struct spi_nor *nor)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> > +	u8 val;
> > +
> > +	ret = nor->read_reg(nor, SPINOR_OP_RDFSR, &val, 1);
> > +	if (ret < 0) {
> > +		pr_err("error %d reading FSR\n", ret);
> > +		return ret;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return val;
> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > 
> >   * Read configuration register, returning its value in the
> >   * location. Return the configuration register value.
> >   * Returns negative if error occured.
> > 
> > @@ -165,6 +184,32 @@ static int spi_nor_wait_till_ready(struct spi_nor
> > *nor)
> > 
> >  	return -ETIMEDOUT;
> >  
> >  }
> > 
> > +static int spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready(struct spi_nor *nor)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long deadline;
> > +	int sr;
> > +	int fsr;
> > +
> > +	deadline = jiffies + MAX_READY_WAIT_JIFFIES;
> > +
> > +	do {
> > +		cond_resched();
> > +
> > +		sr = read_sr(nor);
> > +		if (sr < 0)
> > +			break;
> > +		else if (!(sr & SR_WIP)) {
> > +			fsr = read_fsr(nor);
> > +			if (fsr < 0)
> > +				break;
> > +			if (fsr & FSR_READY)
> > +				return 0;
> > +		}
> > +	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline));
> > +
> > +	return -ETIMEDOUT;
> > +}
> > +
> > 
> >  /*
> >  
> >   * Service routine to read status register until ready, or timeout
> >   occurs. * Returns non-zero if error.
> > 
> > @@ -402,6 +447,7 @@ struct flash_info {
> > 
> >  #define	SECT_4K_PMC		0x10	/* SPINOR_OP_BE_4K_PMC works 
uniformly */
> >  #define	SPI_NOR_DUAL_READ	0x20    /* Flash supports Dual Read */
> >  #define	SPI_NOR_QUAD_READ	0x40    /* Flash supports Quad Read */
> > 
> > +#define	USE_FSR			0x80	/* use flag status register */
> > 
> >  };
> >  
> >  #define INFO(_jedec_id, _ext_id, _sector_size, _n_sectors, _flags)	\
> > 
> > @@ -488,6 +534,8 @@ const struct spi_device_id spi_nor_ids[] = {
> > 
> >  	{ "n25q128a13",  INFO(0x20ba18, 0, 64 * 1024,  256, 0) },
> >  	{ "n25q256a",    INFO(0x20ba19, 0, 64 * 1024,  512, SECT_4K) },
> >  	{ "n25q512a",    INFO(0x20bb20, 0, 64 * 1024, 1024, SECT_4K) },
> > 
> > +	{ "n25q512ax3",  INFO(0x20ba20, 0, 64 * 1024, 1024, USE_FSR) },
> > +	{ "n25q00",      INFO(0x20ba21, 0, 64 * 1024, 2048, USE_FSR) },
> > 
> >  	/* PMC */
> >  	{ "pm25lv512",   INFO(0,        0, 32 * 1024,    2, SECT_4K_PMC) },
> > 
> > @@ -965,6 +1013,9 @@ int spi_nor_scan(struct spi_nor *nor, const struct
> > spi_device_id *id,
> > 
> >  	else
> >  	
> >  		mtd->_write = spi_nor_write;
> > 
> > +	if (info->flags & USE_FSR)
> > +		nor->wait_till_ready = spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready;
> > +
> 
> the drivers may fills this hook itself, so the code should like this:
>    --------------------------------------------------
> 	if ((info->flags & USE_FSR) &&
> 	       	nor->wait_till_ready == spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready)
> 		nor->wait_till_ready = spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready;
>    --------------------------------------------------

I sense a misdesign of the SPI NOR subsystem here. The subsystem and the driver 
compete for a function pointer here ? I guess one should have precedence in some 
way then ... and also, they should be two different pointers, where the 
subsystem decides which to use.