Re: Prevent Nand page writes on Power failure

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sascha,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:58:20 +0100
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have hardware here for which the normal way to turn off is just to cut
> the power. When the powercut happens during a NAND page write then we
> get more or less completely written pages during next boot. Very rarely
> it seems to happen that such a half written page with only very few
> flipped bits is erroneously detected as empty and written again which
> then results in ECC errors when reading the data.

This should definitely be fixed, maybe by lowering the bitflip
threshold when doing the empty check. Do you know the ECC strength and
the number of bitflips you have when that problem occurs?

Regards,

Boris

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