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From: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@baylibre.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	Karl Beldan <karl.beldan+oss@gmail.com>,
	Karl Beldan <kbeldan@baylibre.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: nand: davinci: Reinitialize the HW ECC engine in 4bit hwctl
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:45:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829074550.29247-1-kbeldan@baylibre.com> (raw)

This fixes subpage writes when using 4-bit HW ECC.

There has been numerous reports about ECC errors with devices using this
driver for a while.  Also the 4-bit ECC has been reported as broken with
subpages in [1] and with 16 bits NANDs in the driver and in mach* board
files both in mainline and in the vendor BSPs.

What I saw with 4-bit ECC on a 16bits NAND (on an LCDK) which got me to
try reinitializing the ECC engine:
- R/W on whole pages properly generates/checks RS code
- try writing the 1st subpage only of a blank page, the subpage is well
  written and the RS code properly generated, re-reading the same page
  the HW detects some ECC error, reading the same page again no ECC
  error is detected

Note that the ECC engine is already reinitialized in the 1-bit case.

Tested on my LCDK with UBI+UBIFS using subpages.
This could potentially get rid of the issue workarounded in [1].

[1] 28c015a9daab ("mtd: davinci-nand: disable subpage write for keystone-nand")

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@baylibre.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
index cc07ba0..27fa8b8 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ static void nand_davinci_hwctl_4bit(struct mtd_info *mtd, int mode)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 val;
 
+	/* Reset ECC hardware */
+	davinci_nand_readl(info, NAND_4BIT_ECC1_OFFSET);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&davinci_nand_lock, flags);
 
 	/* Start 4-bit ECC calculation for read/write */
-- 
2.9.2

             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-29  7:45 Karl Beldan [this message]
2016-08-29  9:59 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-08-29 20:38   ` Brian Norris
2016-08-29 20:45     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-09-10  3:09       ` Brian Norris

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