[PATCH v7] mtd: sharpslpart: Add sharpslpart partition parser

Andrea Adami andrea.adami at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 16:42:02 PDT 2017


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:20:32 +0200
> Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Sharp SL Series (Zaurus) PXA handhelds have 16/64/128M of NAND flash
>> and share the same layout of the first 7M partition, managed by Sharp FTL.
>>
>> GPL 2.4 sources: http://support.ezaurus.com/developer/source/source_dl.asp
>>
>> The purpose of this self-contained patch is to add a common parser and
>> remove the hardcoded sizes in the board files (these devices are not yet
>> converted to devicetree).
>> Users will have benefits because the mtdparts= tag will not be necessary
>> anymore and they will be free to repartition the little sized flash.
>>
>> The obsolete bootloader can not pass the partitioning info to modern
>> kernels anymore so it has to be read from flash at known logical addresses.
>> (see http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~rimemoon/zaurus/memo_006.htm )
>>
>> In kernel, under arch/arm/mach-pxa we have already 8 machines:
>> MACH_POODLE, MACH_CORGI, MACH_SHEPERD, MACH_HUSKY, MACH_AKITA, MACH_SPITZ,
>> MACH_BORZOI, MACH_TOSA.
>> Lost after the 2.4 vendor kernel are MACH_BOXER and MACH_TERRIER.
>>
>> Almost every model has different factory partitioning: add to this the
>> units can be repartitioned by users with userspace tools (nandlogical)
>> and installers for popular (back then) linux distributions.
>>
>> The Parameter Area in the first (boot) partition extends from 0x00040000 to
>> 0x0007bfff (176k) and contains two copies of the partition table:
>> ...
>> 0x00060000: Partition Info1     16k
>> 0x00064000: Partition Info2     16k
>> 0x00668000: Model               16k
>> ...
>>
>> The first 7M partition is managed by the Sharp FTL reserving 5% + 1 blocks
>> for wear-leveling: some blocks are remapped and one layer of translation
>> (logical to physical) is necessary.
>>
>> There isn't much documentation about this FTL in the 2.4 sources, just the
>> MTD methods for reading and writing using logical addresses and the block
>> management (wear-leveling, use counter).
>> It seems this FTL was tailored with 16KiB eraesize in mind so to fit one
>> param block exactly, to have two copies of the partition table on two
>> blocks.
>> Later pxa27x devices have same size but 128KiB erasesize and less blocks
>> (56 vs. 448) but the same schema was adopted, even if the two tables are
>> now in the same eraseblock.
>>
>> For the purpose of the MTD parser only the read part of the code was taken.
>>
>> The NAND drivers that can use this parser are sharpsl.c and tmio_nand.c.
>>
>
> A few nitpicks below. Once fixed you can add
>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
>
Thanks again for your help.

>> Changelog:
>> v1 firt version, initial import of 2.4 sources
>> v2 refactor applying many suggested fixes
>> v3 put the partition parser types in the platform data
>> v4 refactor after ML review
>> v5 fix commit messages and texts, remove global, fixes after v4 review
>> v6 refactor memory mgmt passing pointer to the FTL, fixes after v5 review
>> v7 verify the oob are free for the FTL, renamings, fixes after v6 review
>
> The changelog should not be part of the commit message...
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> ... it should be go here (after the --- separator) so that when we apply
> the patch it goes away.
>
Sorry, I have copied it in the wrong line.

>>  drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig       |   8 +
>>  drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile      |   1 +
>>  drivers/mtd/parsers/sharpslpart.c | 399 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 408 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/parsers/sharpslpart.c
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
>> index d206b3c..ee5ab99 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
>> @@ -6,3 +6,11 @@ config MTD_PARSER_TRX
>>         may contain up to 3/4 partitions (depending on the version).
>>         This driver will parse TRX header and report at least two partitions:
>>         kernel and rootfs.
>> +
>> +config MTD_SHARPSL_PARTS
>> +     tristate "Sharp SL Series NAND flash partition parser"
>> +     depends on MTD_NAND_SHARPSL || MTD_NAND_TMIO || COMPILE_TEST
>> +     help
>> +       This provides the read-only FTL logic necessary to read the partition
>> +       table from the NAND flash of Sharp SL Series (Zaurus) and the MTD
>> +       partition parser using this code.
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile
>> index 4d9024e..5b1bcc3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile
>> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_PARSER_TRX)         += parser_trx.o
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_SHARPSL_PARTS)              += sharpslpart.o
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/sharpslpart.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/sharpslpart.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..5fddeba
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/sharpslpart.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,399 @@
>> +/*
>> + * sharpslpart.c - MTD partition parser for NAND flash using the SHARP FTL
>> + * for logical addressing, as used on the PXA models of the SHARP SL Series.
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2017 Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>
>> + *
>> + * Based on SHARP GPL 2.4 sources:
>> + *   http://support.ezaurus.com/developer/source/source_dl.asp
>> + *     drivers/mtd/nand/sharp_sl_logical.c
>> + *     linux/include/asm-arm/sharp_nand_logical.h
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2002 SHARP
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> + * (at your option) any later version.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <linux/slab.h>
>> +#include <linux/module.h>
>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>> +#include <linux/bitops.h>
>> +#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
>> +#include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
>> +
>> +/* oob structure */
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_00         8
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_01         9
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_10         10
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_11         11
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_20         12
>> +#define NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_21         13
>> +
>> +#define BLOCK_IS_RESERVED            0xffff
>> +#define BLOCK_UNMASK_COMPLEMENT              1
>> +
>> +/* factory defaults */
>> +#define SHARPSL_NAND_PARTS           3
>> +#define SHARPSL_FTL_PART_SIZE                (7 * SZ_1M)
>> +#define SHARPSL_PARTINFO1_LADDR              0x00060000
>> +#define SHARPSL_PARTINFO2_LADDR              0x00064000
>> +
>> +#define BOOT_MAGIC                   0x424f4f54
>> +#define FSRO_MAGIC                   0x4653524f
>> +#define FSRW_MAGIC                   0x46535257
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * struct sharpsl_ftl - Sharp FTL Logical Table
>> + * @logmax:          number of logical blocks
>> + * @log2phy:         the logical-to-physical table
>> + *
>> + * Structure containing the logical-to-physical translation table
>> + * used by the SHARP SL FTL.
>> + */
>> +struct sharpsl_ftl {
>> +     unsigned int logmax;
>> +     unsigned int *log2phy;
>> +};
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_check_ooblayout(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>> +{
>> +     u8 freebytes = 0;
>> +     int section = 0;
>> +
>> +     while (true) {
>> +             struct mtd_oob_region oobfree = { };
>> +             int ret, i;
>> +
>> +             ret = mtd_ooblayout_free(mtd, section++, &oobfree);
>> +             if (ret)
>> +                     break;
>> +
>> +             if (!oobfree.length || oobfree.offset > 15 ||
>> +                 (oobfree.offset + oobfree.length) < 8)
>> +                     continue;
>> +
>> +             i = oobfree.offset >= 8 ? oobfree.offset : 8;
>> +             for (; i < oobfree.offset + oobfree.length && i < 16; i++)
>> +                     freebytes |= BIT(i - 8);
>> +
>> +             if (freebytes == 0xff)
>> +                     return 0;
>
> I think this function deserves a comment explaining what you're doing:
> checking that bytes 8 to 15 of the OOB area are free.
>
Ah, ok, I put the description down before the function call.
I'll add a short text here as well.

>> +     }
>> +
>> +     return -ENOTSUPP;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_read_oob(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t offs,
>> +                              uint8_t *buf)
>
>                                  u8 *buf
>
Ok, replaced

>> +{
>> +     struct mtd_oob_ops ops = { };
>> +     int ret;
>> +
>> +     ops.mode = MTD_OPS_PLACE_OOB;
>> +     ops.ooblen = mtd->oobsize;
>> +     ops.oobbuf = buf;
>> +
>> +     ret = mtd_read_oob(mtd, offs, &ops);
>> +     if (ret != 0 || mtd->oobsize != ops.oobretlen)
>> +             return -1;
>> +
>> +     return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * The logical block number assigned to a physical block is stored in the OOB
>> + * of the first page, in 3 16-bit copies with the following layout:
>> + *
>> + * 01234567 89abcdef
>> + * -------- --------
>> + * ECC BB   xyxyxy
>> + *
>> + * When reading we check that the first two copies agree.
>> + * In case of error, matching is tried using the following pairs.
>> + * Reserved values 0xffff mean the block is kept for wear leveling.
>> + *
>> + * 01234567 89abcdef
>> + * -------- --------
>> + * ECC BB   xyxy    oob[8]==oob[10] && oob[9]==oob[11]   -> byte0=8   byte1=9
>> + * ECC BB     xyxy  oob[10]==oob[12] && oob[11]==oob[13] -> byte0=10  byte1=11
>> + * ECC BB   xy  xy  oob[12]==oob[8] && oob[13]==oob[9]   -> byte0=12  byte1=13
>> + *
>
> There's still an extra/unneeded blank line here.
>
Removed

>> + */
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_get_logical_num(u8 *oob)
>> +{
>> +     u16 us;
>> +     int good0, good1;
>> +
>> +     if (oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_00] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_10] &&
>> +         oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_01] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_11]) {
>> +             good0 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_00;
>> +             good1 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_01;
>> +     } else if (oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_10] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_20] &&
>> +                oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_11] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_21]) {
>> +             good0 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_10;
>> +             good1 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_11;
>> +     } else if (oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_20] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_00] &&
>> +                oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_21] == oob[NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_01]) {
>> +             good0 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_20;
>> +             good1 = NAND_NOOB_LOGADDR_21;
>> +     } else {
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     us = oob[good0] | oob[good1] << 8;
>> +
>> +     /* parity check */
>> +     if (hweight16(us) & BLOCK_UNMASK_COMPLEMENT)
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +     /* reserved */
>> +     if (us == BLOCK_IS_RESERVED)
>> +             return BLOCK_IS_RESERVED;
>> +
>> +     return (us >> 1) & GENMASK(9, 0);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_init_ftl(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct sharpsl_ftl *ftl)
>> +{
>> +     unsigned int block_num, log_num, phymax;
>> +     loff_t block_adr;
>> +     u8 *oob;
>> +     int i, ret;
>> +
>> +     oob = kzalloc(mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     if (!oob)
>> +             return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +     phymax = mtd_div_by_eb(SHARPSL_FTL_PART_SIZE, mtd);
>> +
>> +     /* FTL reserves 5% of the blocks + 1 spare  */
>> +     ftl->logmax = ((phymax * 95) / 100) - 1;
>> +
>> +     ftl->log2phy = kmalloc_array(ftl->logmax, sizeof(*ftl->log2phy),
>> +                                  GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     if (!ftl->log2phy) {
>> +             ret = -ENOMEM;
>> +             goto exit;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     /* initialize ftl->log2phy */
>> +     for (i = 0; i < ftl->logmax; i++)
>> +             ftl->log2phy[i] = UINT_MAX;
>> +
>> +     /* create physical-logical table */
>> +     for (block_num = 0; block_num < phymax; block_num++) {
>> +             block_adr = block_num * mtd->erasesize;
>> +
>> +             if (mtd_block_isbad(mtd, block_adr))
>> +                     continue;
>> +
>> +             if (sharpsl_nand_read_oob(mtd, block_adr, oob))
>> +                     continue;
>> +
>> +             /* get logical block */
>> +             log_num = sharpsl_nand_get_logical_num(oob);
>> +
>> +             /* cut-off errors and skip the out-of-range values */
>> +             if (log_num > 0 && log_num < ftl->logmax) {
>> +                     if (ftl->log2phy[log_num] == UINT_MAX)
>> +                             ftl->log2phy[log_num] = block_num;
>> +             }
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     pr_info("Sharp SL FTL: %d blocks used (%d logical, %d reserved)\n",
>> +             phymax, ftl->logmax, phymax - ftl->logmax);
>> +
>> +     ret = 0;
>> +exit:
>> +     kfree(oob);
>> +     return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>> +void sharpsl_nand_cleanup_ftl(struct sharpsl_ftl *ftl)
>> +{
>> +     kfree(ftl->log2phy);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_read_laddr(struct mtd_info *mtd,
>> +                                loff_t from,
>> +                                size_t len,
>> +                                void *buf,
>> +                                struct sharpsl_ftl *ftl)
>> +{
>> +     unsigned int log_num, final_log_num;
>> +     unsigned int block_num;
>> +     loff_t block_adr;
>> +     loff_t block_ofs;
>> +     size_t retlen;
>> +     int err;
>> +
>> +     log_num = mtd_div_by_eb((u32)from, mtd);
>> +     final_log_num = mtd_div_by_eb(((u32)from + len - 1), mtd);
>> +
>> +     if (len <= 0 || log_num >= ftl->logmax || final_log_num > log_num)
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +     block_num = ftl->log2phy[log_num];
>> +     block_adr = block_num * mtd->erasesize;
>> +     block_ofs = mtd_mod_by_eb((u32)from, mtd);
>> +
>> +     err = mtd_read(mtd, block_adr + block_ofs, len, &retlen, buf);
>> +     /* Ignore corrected ECC errors */
>> +     if (mtd_is_bitflip(err))
>> +             err = 0;
>> +
>> +     if (!err && retlen != len)
>> +             err = -EIO;
>> +
>> +     if (err)
>> +             pr_err("sharpslpart: error, read failed at %#llx\n",
>> +                    block_adr + block_ofs);
>> +
>> +     return err;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * MTD Partition Parser
>> + *
>> + * Sample values read from SL-C860
>> + *
>> + * # cat /proc/mtd
>> + * dev:    size   erasesize  name
>> + * mtd0: 006d0000 00020000 "Filesystem"
>> + * mtd1: 00700000 00004000 "smf"
>> + * mtd2: 03500000 00004000 "root"
>> + * mtd3: 04400000 00004000 "home"
>> + *
>> + * PARTITIONINFO1
>> + * 0x00060000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 00 42 4f 4f 54 00 00 00 00  ......p.BOOT....
>> + * 0x00060010: 00 00 70 00 00 00 c0 03 46 53 52 4f 00 00 00 00  ..p.....FSRO....
>> + * 0x00060020: 00 00 c0 03 00 00 00 04 46 53 52 57 00 00 00 00  ........FSRW....
>> + *
>
> Ditto: remove the empty comment line from this comment.
>
Removed

>> + */
>> +struct sharpsl_nand_partinfo {
>> +     __le32 start;
>> +     __le32 end;
>> +     __be32 magic;
>> +     u32 reserved;
>> +};
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_nand_read_partinfo(struct mtd_info *master,
>> +                                   loff_t from,
>> +                                   size_t len,
>> +                                   struct sharpsl_nand_partinfo *buf,
>> +                                   struct sharpsl_ftl *ftl)
>> +{
>> +     int ret;
>> +
>> +     ret = sharpsl_nand_read_laddr(master, from, len, buf, ftl);
>> +     if (ret)
>> +             return ret;
>> +
>> +     /* check for magics */
>> +     if (be32_to_cpu(buf[0].magic) != BOOT_MAGIC ||
>> +         be32_to_cpu(buf[1].magic) != FSRO_MAGIC ||
>> +         be32_to_cpu(buf[2].magic) != FSRW_MAGIC) {
>> +             pr_err("sharpslpart: magic values mismatch\n");
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     /* fixup for hardcoded value 64 MiB (for older models) */
>> +     buf[2].end = cpu_to_le32(master->size);
>> +
>> +     /* extra sanity check */
>> +     if (le32_to_cpu(buf[0].end) <= le32_to_cpu(buf[0].start) ||
>> +         le32_to_cpu(buf[1].start) < le32_to_cpu(buf[0].end) ||
>> +         le32_to_cpu(buf[1].end) <= le32_to_cpu(buf[1].start) ||
>> +         le32_to_cpu(buf[2].start) < le32_to_cpu(buf[1].end) ||
>> +         le32_to_cpu(buf[2].end) <= le32_to_cpu(buf[2].start)) {
>> +             pr_err("sharpslpart: partition sizes mismatch\n");
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int sharpsl_parse_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
>> +                                     const struct mtd_partition **pparts,
>> +                                     struct mtd_part_parser_data *data)
>> +{
>> +     struct sharpsl_ftl ftl;
>> +     struct sharpsl_nand_partinfo buf[SHARPSL_NAND_PARTS];
>> +     struct mtd_partition *sharpsl_nand_parts;
>> +     int err;
>> +
>> +     /* check that OOB bytes 8 to 15 used by the FTL are actually free */
>> +     err = sharpsl_nand_check_ooblayout(master);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     /* init logical mgmt (FTL) */
>> +     err = sharpsl_nand_init_ftl(master, &ftl);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     /* read and validate first partition table */
>> +     pr_info("sharpslpart: try reading first partition table\n");
>> +     err = sharpsl_nand_read_partinfo(master,
>> +                                      SHARPSL_PARTINFO1_LADDR,
>> +                                      sizeof(buf), buf, &ftl);
>> +     if (err) {
>> +             /* fallback: read second partition table */
>> +             pr_warn("sharpslpart: first partition table is invalid, retry using the second\n");
>> +             err = sharpsl_nand_read_partinfo(master,
>> +                                              SHARPSL_PARTINFO2_LADDR,
>> +                                              sizeof(buf), buf, &ftl);
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     /* cleanup logical mgmt (FTL) */
>> +     sharpsl_nand_cleanup_ftl(&ftl);
>> +
>> +     if (err) {
>> +             pr_err("sharpslpart: both partition tables are invalid\n");
>> +             return err;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts = kzalloc(sizeof(*sharpsl_nand_parts) *
>> +                                  SHARPSL_NAND_PARTS, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     if (!sharpsl_nand_parts)
>> +             return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +     /* original names */
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[0].name = "smf";
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[0].offset = le32_to_cpu(buf[0].start);
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[0].size = le32_to_cpu(buf[0].end) -
>> +                                  le32_to_cpu(buf[0].start);
>> +
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[1].name = "root";
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[1].offset = le32_to_cpu(buf[1].start);
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[1].size = le32_to_cpu(buf[1].end) -
>> +                                  le32_to_cpu(buf[1].start);
>> +
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[2].name = "home";
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[2].offset = le32_to_cpu(buf[2].start);
>> +     sharpsl_nand_parts[2].size = le32_to_cpu(buf[2].end) -
>> +                                  le32_to_cpu(buf[2].start);
>> +
>> +     *pparts = sharpsl_nand_parts;
>> +     return SHARPSL_NAND_PARTS;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static struct mtd_part_parser sharpsl_mtd_parser = {
>> +     .parse_fn = sharpsl_parse_mtd_partitions,
>> +     .name = "sharpslpart",
>> +};
>> +module_mtd_part_parser(sharpsl_mtd_parser);
>> +
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MTD partitioning for NAND flash on Sharp SL Series");
>
Thanks, I'll send v8.

Regards
Andrea



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