[PATCH] mtd: nand: Disable subpage writes for drivers without ecc->hwctl

Helmut Schaa helmut.schaa at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 13 23:18:09 PDT 2014



On 14. April 2014 07:55:30 MESZ, "Gupta, Pekon" <pekon at ti.com> wrote:
>>From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com]
>>>On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 06:35 +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
>>> As per [1] and [2], If the subpage is _not_ supported then
>VID-header offset
>>> should be aligned to  PAGE_SIZE boundary. And it has implications on
>LEB size
>>> calculation too. I don't know how it was working earlier but if the
>earlier
>>> UBI images were using 512 as VID Header offset even without subpage
>>> Support then it's incorrect configuration.
>>
>>I believe what was happening before was full page writes with only
>>subpage content (the rest left at 0xff).
>>
>Yes, that is possible, sorry I missed that nand_do_write_ops() does
>0xff padding
>for non-page aligned writes. In that case replicating
>fsl_elbc_write_page() for
>chip->ecc.write_subpage should also work and maintain backward
>compatibility.
>
>(not compile tested)

JFI, I'm in vacation till next week and don't have access to the affected system. Will do a test once I'm back.
Helmut

>------------------------------------
>diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
>b/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
>index a21252c..cc79ce4 100644
>--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
>+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c
>@@ -723,6 +723,19 @@ static int fsl_elbc_write_page(struct mtd_info
>*mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
>        return 0;
> }
>
>+/* ECC will be calculated automatically, and errors will be detected
>in
>+ * waitfunc.
>+ */
>+static int fsl_elbc_write_subpage(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct
>nand_chip *chip,
>+                               uint32_t offset, uint32_t data_len,
>+                               const uint8_t *buf, int oob_required)
>+{
>+       fsl_elbc_write_buf(mtd, buf, mtd->writesize);
>+       fsl_elbc_write_buf(mtd, chip->oob_poi, mtd->oobsize);
>+
>+       return 0;
>+}
>+
> static int fsl_elbc_chip_init(struct fsl_elbc_mtd *priv)
> {
>        struct fsl_lbc_ctrl *ctrl = priv->ctrl;
>@@ -762,6 +775,7 @@ static int fsl_elbc_chip_init(struct fsl_elbc_mtd
>*priv)
>
>        chip->ecc.read_page = fsl_elbc_read_page;
>        chip->ecc.write_page = fsl_elbc_write_page;
>+       chip->ecc.write_subpage = fsl_elbc_write_subpage;
>
>        /* If CS Base Register selects full hardware ECC then use it */
>        if ((in_be32(&lbc->bank[priv->bank].br) & BR_DECC) ==
>
>------------------------------------
>
>with regards, pekon

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