[PATCH v10 08/13] mtd: spinand: Create direct mapping descriptors for ECC operations
Miquel Raynal
miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Mon Jan 31 08:22:12 PST 2022
On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 09:18:03 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> In order for pipelined ECC engines to be able to enable/disable the ECC
> engine only when needed and avoid races when future parallel-operations
> will be supported, we need to provide the information about the use of
> the ECC engine in the direct mapping hooks. As direct mapping
> configurations are meant to be static, it is best to create two new
> mappings: one for regular 'raw' accesses and one for accesses involving
> correction. It is up to the driver to use or not the new ECC enable
> boolean contained in the spi-mem operation.
>
> As dirmaps are not free (they consume a few pages of MMIO address space)
> and because these extra entries are only meant to be used by pipelined
> engines, let's limit their use to this specific type of engine and save
> a bit of memory with all the other setups.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20220104083631.40776-9-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git spi-mem-ecc.
Miquel
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