Re: [PATCH v4 05/16] mtd: spi-nor: default to address width of 3 for configurable widths

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On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 4:34:46 AM EEST Yicong Yang wrote:
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> Hi Pratyush,
> 
> On 2020/4/28 1:23, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > Hi Yicong,
> > 
> > On 26/04/20 11:53AM, Yicong Yang wrote:
> >> On 2020/4/25 2:43, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> >>> JESD216D.01 says that when the address width can be 3 or 4, it defaults
> >>> to 3 and enters 4-byte mode when given the appropriate command. So, when
> >>> we see a configurable width, default to 3 and let flash that default to
> >>> 4 change it in a post-bfpt fixup.
> >>> 
> >>> This fixes SMPT parsing for flashes with configurable address width. If
> >>> the SMPT descriptor advertises variable address width, we use
> >>> nor->addr_width as the address width. But since it was not set to any
> >>> value from the SFDP table, the read command uses an address width of 0,
> >>> resulting in an incorrect read being issued.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@xxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>> 
> >>>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c | 1 +
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>> 
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> >>> index f917631c8110..5cecc4ba2141 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> >>> @@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_bfpt(struct spi_nor *nor,
> >>> 
> >>>     /* Number of address bytes. */
> >>>     switch (bfpt.dwords[BFPT_DWORD(1)] & BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_MASK)
> >>>     {
> >>> 
> >>>     case BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_3_ONLY:
> >>> +   case BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_3_OR_4:
> >>>             nor->addr_width = 3;
> >>>             break;
> >> 
> >> Should we also assign address width to 3 in default condition. At least
> >> we should not leave it uninitialized here.
> > 
> > The default condition would be taken when this field is 3. The value 3
> > is reserved, and so no current device should use this value. That said,
> > I don't see any downsides of doing so. If the value 3 means something
> > else in later revisions of the standard, this code would need to change
> > anyway. If not, we would use a relatively sane default for devices with
> > a faulty BFPT.
> 
> The purpose is to set one possible value which may be used later in parsing
> smpt. In current driver, if we do nothing with the post-bfpt fixup, then
> the width will be unset. Otherwise, maybe the width can also be set in
> spi_nor_smpt_addr_width()
> 
>     default:
>    +    if (!nor->addr_width)
>    +        nor->addr_width = 3;
>         return nor->addr_width;
> 
> But set when parsing bfpt seems more reasonable.

Please don't. Any deviations from the standard should be addressed with fixup 
hooks.

> 
> > I haven't received any comments on my series so far. If end up having to

Thanks for the patience, they are in my todo list, I will get soon to them.

Cheers,
ta


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