[PATCH] mtd: cfi: Wait for Block Erase operation to finish

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Paul Parsons <lost.distance at yahoo.com> wrote on 2012/03/01 15:57:14:
>
> --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se> wrote:
> > This looks like a erase resume problem, cfi driver issues a
> > resume command but the
> > chip fails or is slow to respond. I remember someone having
> > a similar problem
> > some time ago. Don't think we got to bottom of it though,
> > look for subject:
> >   Numonyx NOR and chip->mutex bug?
>
> Yes, that Numonyx NOR problem seems to be the same as mine.
>
> > Try adding extra read status cmds around resume, check if
> > SR.6 is cleared too.
>
> OK, I think I've made some progress here.
>
> The status transitions around the Erase Resume are as follows:
>
> [   58.702774] 108: PUTC: 0: status=0x00c000c0 // Before CMD(0xd0)
> [   58.702792] 108: PUTC: 1: status=0x00400040 // After CMD(0xd0),CMD(0x70)
> [   58.702808] 108: PUTC: 2: status=0x00000000 // + cfi_udelay(1)

hmm, this is not ideal. The status bits are only valid if SR.7 is set if I remember correctly?
Maybe SR.6 is an exception?
So reading SR.6 and waiting for it to clear may not work on other chips?
Is there some resume to erase time in the specs?


>
> So SR.7 transitions from 1 to 0 after CMD(0xd0), and some time later SR.6
> transitions from 1 to 0. So the effects of Erase Resume are not immediate.
> Thus it seemed a good idea to wait for these bits to settle:
>
> diff -upr clean-3.3-rc5/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c linux-3.3-rc5/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
> --- clean-3.3-rc5/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c   2012-02-25 20:18:16.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-3.3-rc5/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c   2012-03-01 13:44:49.529371920 +0000
> @@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ static int get_chip(struct map_info *map
>  static void put_chip(struct map_info *map, struct flchip *chip, unsigned long adr)
>  {
>     struct cfi_private *cfi = map->fldrv_priv;
> +   map_word status, status_40 = CMD(0x40), status_00 = CMD(0x00);
>
>     if (chip->priv) {
>        struct flchip_shared *shared = chip->priv;
> @@ -1006,6 +1007,15 @@ static void put_chip(struct map_info *ma
>        map_write(map, CMD(0xd0), adr);
>        map_write(map, CMD(0x70), adr);
>        chip->oldstate = FL_READY;
> +      chip->state = FL_ERASE_RESUMING;
> +      for (;;) {
> +         status = map_read(map, adr);
> +         if (map_word_andequal(map, status, status_40, status_00))
> +                 break;
> +         mutex_unlock(&chip->mutex);
> +         cfi_udelay(1);
> +         mutex_lock(&chip->mutex);
> +      }
>        chip->state = FL_ERASING;
>        break;
>
> diff -upr clean-3.3-rc5/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h linux-3.3-rc5/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h
> --- clean-3.3-rc5/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h   2012-02-25 20:18:16.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-3.3-rc5/include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h   2012-03-01 13:41:48.288232532 +0000
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ typedef enum {
>     FL_ERASING,
>     FL_ERASE_SUSPENDING,
>     FL_ERASE_SUSPENDED,
> +   FL_ERASE_RESUMING,
>     FL_WRITING,
>     FL_WRITING_TO_BUFFER,
>     FL_OTP_WRITE,
>
> This patch adds a wait after Erase Resume, just like the existing one after
> Erase Suspend (but without the timeout). I added the FL_ERASE_RESUMING
> state to perform the same function as the FL_ERASE_SUSPENDING state: to
> stop anyone else touching it.
>
> When I tried this patch in place of my previous one I found it too fixed
> my problem. That's not a surprise because it does the same thing, it waits
> for SR.6 to clear, but at an earlier point. Unlike my previous patch,
> this patch leaves SR.7 and SR.6 in a consistent state before put_chip()
> returns (and indeed before the call to wake_up(&chip->wq) at the bottom of
> put_chip()).
>
> What I don't know is why not waiting for SR.7 and SR.6 to settle after
> Erase Resume can then break UBI, in particular provoking the
> "block erase error: (bad VPP)" messages I was seeing earlier.