[PATCH v3] mtd: nand: brcmnand: Disable prefetch by default

Kamal Dasu kdasu.kdev at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 12:36:48 PST 2018


Brcm nand controller prefetch feature needs to be disabled
by default. Enabling affects performance on random reads as
well as dma reads.

Signed-off-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev at gmail.com>
Fixes: 27c5b17cd1b1 ("mtd: nand: add NAND driver "library" for Broadcom STB NAND controller")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
index dd56a67..2a978d9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
@@ -2193,16 +2193,9 @@ static int brcmnand_setup_dev(struct brcmnand_host *host)
 	if (ctrl->nand_version >= 0x0702)
 		tmp |= ACC_CONTROL_RD_ERASED;
 	tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_FAST_PGM_RDIN;
-	if (ctrl->features & BRCMNAND_HAS_PREFETCH) {
-		/*
-		 * FIXME: Flash DMA + prefetch may see spurious erased-page ECC
-		 * errors
-		 */
-		if (has_flash_dma(ctrl))
-			tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH;
-		else
-			tmp |= ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH;
-	}
+	if (ctrl->features & BRCMNAND_HAS_PREFETCH)
+		tmp &= ~ACC_CONTROL_PREFETCH;
+
 	nand_writereg(ctrl, offs, tmp);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.7.4




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