[PATCH] mtd: rawnand: marvell: Fix read logic for layouts with ->nchunks > 2

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Mon May 14 01:38:19 PDT 2018


Hi Boris,

On Wed,  9 May 2018 09:13:58 +0200, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon at bootlin.com> wrote:

> The code is doing monolithic reads for all chunks except the last one
> which is wrong since a monolithic read will issue the
> READ0+ADDRS+READ_START sequence. It not only takes longer because it
> forces the NAND chip to reload the page content into its internal
> cache, but by doing that we also reset the column pointer to 0, which
> means we'll always read the first chunk instead of moving to the next
> one.
> 
> Rework the code to do a monolithic read only for the first chunk,
> then switch to naked reads for all intermediate chunks and finally
> issue a last naked read for the last chunk.
> 
> Fixes: 02f26ecf8c77 mtd: nand: add reworked Marvell NAND controller driver
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at bootlin.com>
> Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> ---

I'm surprised not to have spotted this while testing the 4k
pages-8b/512B strength layout. Probably something I changed during the
review process and forgot to test again.

Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>

Thanks,
Miquèl



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