[PATCH] mtd: brcmnand: clean up flash cache for parameter pages

[Ray Jui]

On 11/16/2015 4:56 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> The read_byte() handling for accessing the flash cache has some awkward
> swapping being done in the read_byte() function. Let's just make this a
> byte array, and do the swapping with the word-level macros during the
> initial buffer copy.
>
> This is just a refactoring patch, with no (intended) functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> Cc: Clay McClure <clay at daemons.net>
> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> Cc: <bcm-kernel-feedback-list at broadcom.com>
> Tested-by: Clay McClure <clay at daemons.net>
> ---
> I wanted to get this out there as a proper patch, since there was some
> confusion on the previous thread in which this appeared.
>
> This does *not* fix the bug reported by Cyrille in the thread "mtd: brcmnand:
> Fix NAND_CMD_PARAM byte order". There is a candidate patch which fixes this:
>
>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/535330/
>
> But I'm awaiting a better explanation from Broadcom folks before I
> respin/accept anything like that.

Yeah still on our to-do list. Will find time to talk to our ASIC engineer.

>
>   drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 13 +++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> index 2a437c7ed175..0f43bc95ece4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct brcmnand_controller {
>   	dma_addr_t		dma_pa;
>
>   	/* in-memory cache of the FLASH_CACHE, used only for some commands */
> -	u32			flash_cache[FC_WORDS];
> +	u8			flash_cache[FC_BYTES];
>
>   	/* Controller revision details */
>   	const u16		*reg_offsets;
> @@ -1188,6 +1188,8 @@ static void brcmnand_cmdfunc(struct mtd_info *mtd, unsigned command,
>
>   	if (native_cmd == CMD_PARAMETER_READ ||
>   			native_cmd == CMD_PARAMETER_CHANGE_COL) {
> +		/* Copy flash cache word-wise */
> +		u32 *flash_cache = (u32 *)ctrl->flash_cache;
>   		int i;
>
>   		brcmnand_soc_data_bus_prepare(ctrl->soc);
> @@ -1197,7 +1199,11 @@ static void brcmnand_cmdfunc(struct mtd_info *mtd, unsigned command,
>   		 * SECTOR_SIZE_1K may invalidate it
>   		 */
>   		for (i = 0; i < FC_WORDS; i++)
> -			ctrl->flash_cache[i] = brcmnand_read_fc(ctrl, i);
> +			/*
> +			 * Flash cache is big endian for parameter pages, at
> +			 * least on STB SoCs
> +			 */
> +			flash_cache[i] = be32_to_cpu(brcmnand_read_fc(ctrl, i));
>
>   		brcmnand_soc_data_bus_unprepare(ctrl->soc);
>
> @@ -1250,8 +1256,7 @@ static uint8_t brcmnand_read_byte(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>   		if (host->last_byte > 0 && offs == 0)
>   			chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_RNDOUT, addr, -1);
>
> -		ret = ctrl->flash_cache[offs >> 2] >>
> -					(24 - ((offs & 0x03) << 3));
> +		ret = ctrl->flash_cache[offs];
>   		break;
>   	case NAND_CMD_GET_FEATURES:
>   		if (host->last_byte >= ONFI_SUBFEATURE_PARAM_LEN) {
>

"Tested" on Cygnus, and as expected, nothing changes. NAND still works 
and ONFI still fails.

Thanks,

Ray