[PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] mtd: spinand: try a regular dirmap if creating a dirmap for continuous reading fails
Frieder Schrempf
frieder at fris.de
Tue Aug 11 09:13:37 PDT 2026
From: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy at iopsys.eu>
[ Upstream commit 004f8ea0d9917398aabff7388b3bf62a84a4088b ]
Continuous reading may result in multiple flash pages reading in one
operation. Typically only one flash page has read/written (a little bit
more than 2-4 Kb), but continuous reading requires the spi controller
to read up to 512 Kb in one operation without toggling CS in beetween.
Roughly speaking spi controllers can be divided on 2 categories:
* spi controllers without dirmap acceleration support
* spi controllers with dirmap acceleration support
Firt of them will have issues with continuous reading if restriction on
the transfer length is implemented in the adjust_op_size() handler.
Second group often supports acceleration of single page only reading.
Thus enabling of continuous reading can break flash reading.
This patch tries to create dirmap for continuous reading first and
fallback to regular reading if spi controller refuses to create it.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy at iopsys.eu>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
index a480243385e2e..10339209e7322 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
@@ -1032,6 +1032,39 @@ static int spinand_mtd_block_isreserved(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t offs)
return ret;
}
+static struct spi_mem_dirmap_desc *spinand_create_rdesc(
+ struct spinand_device *spinand,
+ struct spi_mem_dirmap_info *info)
+{
+ struct nand_device *nand = spinand_to_nand(spinand);
+ struct spi_mem_dirmap_desc *desc = NULL;
+
+ if (spinand->cont_read_possible) {
+ /*
+ * spi controller may return an error if info->length is
+ * too large
+ */
+ info->length = nanddev_eraseblock_size(nand);
+ desc = devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create(&spinand->spimem->spi->dev,
+ spinand->spimem, info);
+ }
+
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(desc)) {
+ /*
+ * continuous reading is not supported by flash or
+ * its spi controller, use regular reading
+ */
+ spinand->cont_read_possible = false;
+
+ info->length = nanddev_page_size(nand) +
+ nanddev_per_page_oobsize(nand);
+ desc = devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create(&spinand->spimem->spi->dev,
+ spinand->spimem, info);
+ }
+
+ return desc;
+}
+
static int spinand_create_dirmap(struct spinand_device *spinand,
unsigned int plane)
{
@@ -1051,11 +1084,8 @@ static int spinand_create_dirmap(struct spinand_device *spinand,
spinand->dirmaps[plane].wdesc = desc;
- if (spinand->cont_read_possible)
- info.length = nanddev_eraseblock_size(nand);
info.op_tmpl = *spinand->op_templates.read_cache;
- desc = devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create(&spinand->spimem->spi->dev,
- spinand->spimem, &info);
+ desc = spinand_create_rdesc(spinand, &info);
if (IS_ERR(desc))
return PTR_ERR(desc);
@@ -1078,12 +1108,9 @@ static int spinand_create_dirmap(struct spinand_device *spinand,
spinand->dirmaps[plane].wdesc_ecc = desc;
- if (spinand->cont_read_possible)
- info.length = nanddev_eraseblock_size(nand);
info.op_tmpl = *spinand->op_templates.read_cache;
info.op_tmpl.data.ecc = true;
- desc = devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create(&spinand->spimem->spi->dev,
- spinand->spimem, &info);
+ desc = spinand_create_rdesc(spinand, &info);
if (IS_ERR(desc))
return PTR_ERR(desc);
--
2.55.0
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