[PATCH] Enable the read ECC before program the page

Arun Nagendran arunrasppi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 08:56:49 PDT 2017


On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:31:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:15:26PM -0400, Arun Nagendran wrote:
> > Current program_page function did following operation:
> > 
> > 1. read page (with ECC OFF)
> > 2. modify the page
> > 3. write the page (with ECC ON)
> > 
> > For some case(buggy flash Chip), while read the page without ECC ON,
> > we may read the page with bit flip error and modify that bad page without
> > knowing the bit flip error on that page.
> > also we re-calculate the hash for bad page and write it.
> > This could bring potential in-consistency problem with Flash data.
> > 
> > Verify this logic with GIGA DEVICE Part(GD5F2GQ4RCFIG):
> > we see this in-conststency problem wit Giga Device and fix on
> > this patch resovle that issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arun Nagendran <arunrasppi at gmail.com>
> 
> Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for how to properly version
> your patches so we know what is going on and which one to accept/review.
> 
> Also your subject line needs some work, look at the other subjects for
> patches that have been accepted for this driver/subsystem for examples
> of what needs to be done.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thank you Greg on your review comments, I am working on 
your suggestion.

Thanks,
-Arun



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