Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: marvell: check for RDY bits after enabling the IRQ

[Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

On 27/09/18 09:24, Daniel Mack wrote:
> At least on PXA3xx platforms, enabling RDY interrupts in the NDCR register
> will only cause the IRQ to latch when the RDY lanes are changing, and not
> in case they are already asserted.
> 
> This means that if the controller finished the command in flight before
> marvell_nfc_wait_op() is called, that function will wait for a change in
> the bit that can't ever happen as it is already set.
> 
> To mitigate this race, check for the RDY bits after the IRQ was enabled,
> and only sleep on the condition if the controller isn't ready yet.
> 
> This fixes a bug that was observed with a NAND chip that holds a UBIFS
> parition on which file system stress tests were executed. When
> marvell_nfc_wait_op() reports an error, UBI/UBIFS will eventually mount
> the filesystem read-only, reporting lots of warnings along the way.
> 
> Fixes: 02f26ecf8c77 mtd: nand: add reworked Marvell NAND controller driver
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> index 666f34b58dec..e96ec7b9a152 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> @@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ static int marvell_nfc_wait_cmdd(struct nand_chip *chip)
>   static int marvell_nfc_wait_op(struct nand_chip *chip, unsigned int timeout_ms)
>   {
>   	struct marvell_nfc *nfc = to_marvell_nfc(chip->controller);
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = -EALREADY;

Won't this cause us to hit the if (!ret) below if we don't end up 
calling wait_for_completion_timeout()? In fact I did just hit something 
like this on my Armada-385 based board

marvell-nfc f10d0000.nand-controller: Timeout waiting for RB signal
ubi0 warning: do_sync_erase: error -5 while erasing PEB 755, retry

> +	u32 st;
>   
>   	/* Timeout is expressed in ms */
>   	if (!timeout_ms)
> @@ -622,8 +623,15 @@ static int marvell_nfc_wait_op(struct nand_chip *chip, unsigned int timeout_ms)
>   	init_completion(&nfc->complete);
>   
>   	marvell_nfc_enable_int(nfc, NDCR_RDYM);
> -	ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&nfc->complete,
> -					  msecs_to_jiffies(timeout_ms));
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Check if the NDSR_RDY bits have already been set before the
> +	 * interrupt was enabled.
> +	 */
> +	st = readl_relaxed(nfc->regs + NDSR);
> +	if (!(st & (NDSR_RDY(0) | NDSR_RDY(1))))
> +		ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&nfc->complete,
> +						  msecs_to_jiffies(timeout_ms));
>   	marvell_nfc_disable_int(nfc, NDCR_RDYM);
>   	marvell_nfc_clear_int(nfc, NDSR_RDY(0) | NDSR_RDY(1));
>   	if (!ret) {
> 


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