[PATCH] mtd: nand: raw: qcom_nandc: Don't clear_bam_transaction on READID

[Miquel Raynal]

Hi Mani,

mani at kernel.org wrote on Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:03:16 +0530:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:16:13AM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > miquel.raynal at bootlin.com wrote on Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:27:18 +0100:
> >   
> > > Hi Konrad,
> > > 
> > > konrad.dybcio at somainline.org wrote on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:44:26 +0100:
> > >   
> > > > While I have absolutely 0 idea why and how, running clear_bam_transaction
> > > > when READID is issued makes the DMA totally clog up and refuse to function
> > > > at all on mdm9607. In fact, it is so bad that all the data gets garbled
> > > > and after a short while in the nand probe flow, the CPU decides that
> > > > sepuku is the only option.
> > > > 
> > > > Removing _READID from the if condition makes it work like a charm, I can
> > > > read data and mount partitions without a problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio at somainline.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > This is totally just an observation which took me an inhumane amount of
> > > > debug prints to find.. perhaps there's a better reason behind this, but
> > > > I can't seem to find any answers.. Therefore, this is a BIG RFC!    
> > > 
> > > I'm adding two people from codeaurora who worked a lot on this driver.
> > > Hopefully they will have an idea :)  
> > 
> > Sadre, I've spent a significant amount of time reviewing your patches,
> > now it's your turn to not take a month to answer to your peers
> > proposals.
> > 
> > Please help reviewing this patch.
> >   
> 
> Sorry. I was hoping that Qcom folks would chime in as I don't have any idea
> about the mdm9607 platform. It could be that the mail server migration from
> codeaurora to quicinc put a barrier here.
> 
> Let me ping them internally.

Oh, ok, I didn't know. Thanks!

> > BTW why is this driver still using cmdfund? It should have been
> > migrated to ->exec_op() a long time ago.  
> 
> I'll look into it.

That would be great, given the number of updates this driver has
received, it would be nice to tackle the legacy bits there.

Thanks,
Miquèl