Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] mtd: rawnand: cafe: Convert to exec_op() (and more)

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 May 2020 09:23:31 +0200
Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:50:24PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 May 2020 18:47:09 +0200
> > Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:18:37PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
> > > > On Sat, 16 May 2020 21:08:57 +0200
> > > > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > On Sat, 16 May 2020 16:56:50 +0200
> > > > > Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >     
> > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 09:25:43PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:      
> > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:47:07PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:        
> > > > > > > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 07:10:38PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:        
> > > > > > > > > Hi Lubomir,
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 18:40:57 +0200
> > > > > > > > > Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > > >         
> > > > > > > > > > I don't really mind the patch; I was just not sure why you removed the
> > > > > > > > > > acks and re-set the mask and suspected that maybe it was not
> > > > > > > > > > intentional.
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > That said, I've now disabled the camera and mmc and did my usual test
> > > > > > > > > > of mounting the filesystem and I'm seeing zero interrupts.
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > I suppose it's safe to assume that contrary to what I was imagining,
> > > > > > > > > > the masking works well and the interrupts I was seeing are indeed from
> > > > > > > > > > elsewhere (I guess the MMC driver polling the controller or something).
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Also, the re-set of the mask from the interrupt handler is not realy
> > > > > > > > > > necessary (but I certainly wouldn't complain if you keep it in place).        
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I pushed a new version to my nand/cafe-nand-exec-op-debug branch. This
> > > > > > > > > time I get rid of the IRQ handler as it's not used anyway. Let me know
> > > > > > > > > if that keeps working an I'll send a v3.        
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > I can confirm that your branch (as of 12ef1918985f "mtd: rawnand: cafe: Get
> > > > > > > > rid of the last printk()") is working great here:
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > >   bash-5.0# time mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /mnt
> > > > > > > >   jffs2: notice: (101) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) .
> > > > > > > >   
> > > > > > > >   real    0m7.319s
> > > > > > > >   user    0m0.000s
> > > > > > > >   sys     0m7.294s
> > > > > > > >   bash-5.0# uname -a
> > > > > > > >   Linux (none) 5.7.0-rc3-00097-g12ef1918985f #114 PREEMPT Fri May 15 16:35:01 CEST 2020 i586 GNU/Linux
> > > > > > > >   bash-5.0#         
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Spoke too soon again. Seems like the writes don't make it to the device:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >   bash-5.0# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt
> > > > > > >   jffs2: Empty flash at 0x045a5798 ends at 0x045a5800
> > > > > > >   jffs2: notice: (98) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 1 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 1 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) f.
> > > > > > >   bash-5.0# touch /mnt/meh
> > > > > > >   bash-5.0# sync 
> > > > > > >   jffs2: jffs2_flush_wbuf(): Write failed with -5
> > > > > > >   jffs2: jffs2_flush_wbuf(): Write failed with -5
> > > > > > >   jffs2: jffs2_flush_wbuf(): Write failed with -5
> > > > > > >   jffs2: jffs2_flush_wbuf(): Write failed with -5
> > > > > > >   bash-5.0# 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'll follow up once I know more; with some traces or hopefully a fix.        
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi again. Hope you're having a good weekend.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Some good news and some bad news. Good news is that now I got around to
> > > > > > building an image with mtd_debug and got around to making erase, write
> > > > > > adn read work, withut the hassle of dealing with jffs2 (and hassle of
> > > > > > dealing with corrupted image from eariler attempts).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The bad news is that I have very little idea about what I'm actually
> > > > > > doing. Here's the branch with changes I've done, with my notes in
> > > > > > the commit messages:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lkundrak/linux.git \
> > > > > >       lr/nand/cafe-nand-exec-op-debug
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The relevant changes:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   6ee7e0d11e19 fixup! mtd: rawnand: cafe: Demistify register fields      
> > > > > 
> > > > > This one is valid.
> > > > >     
> > > > > >   565d5f126e86 fixup! mtd: rawnand: cafe: Demistify register fields      
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here it should be
> > > > > 
> > > > > #define CAFE_NAND_ECC_SYN_REG(x)		((((x) / 2) * 4) + 0x50)
> > > > > 
> > > > > but maybe the loop is no longer valid after that.
> > > > >     
> > > > > >   064d381b4615 fixup! mtd: rawnand: cafe: Demistify register fields      
> > > > > 
> > > > > This one looks good too.
> > > > >     
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     During the test with JFFS2 filesystem, I was seeing a metric ton of ECC
> > > > > >     errors. I have no clue where they came from because they presumably happened
> > > > > >     on an asynchronous writeback, but they no longer happen and I believe
> > > > > >     some of the above was to blame. Unfortunely I didn't investigate
> > > > > >     further, because in my setup it is hugely inconvenient to beat the image
> > > > > >     back into shape.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   085a6ad43151 Revert "mtd: rawnand: cafe: Don't leave ECC enabled in the write path"
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     This triggered a WARN_ON(). Probably not too important, because the
> > > > > >     code in question gets thrown out afterwards.      
> > > > > 
> > > > > Oops. Maybe I should move it after the exec_op() conversion then.
> > > > >     
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   4a9d95bf6d6b fixup! mtd: rawnand: cafe: Add exec_op() support
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     An straightforward fix for page write op.      
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yep, that one is valid, thanks for the fix.
> > > > >     
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   6959a724994d XXX add address to CMD_STATUS
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     Tricky, and I have no idea what's going on. Perhaps you'll have an
> > > > > >     idea how to either address this more reasonably. As usual, I'm happy
> > > > > >     to apply patches with extra tracing if necessary.      
> > > > > 
> > > > > Duh, that one is super weird. I wonder if it doesn't have to do with
> > > > > the fact we're using DMA. Can you try with the DMA disabled?    
> > > 
> > > Disabling DMA makes things work.  
> > 
> > Okay, I pushed a new version doing DMA only where there's at least one
> > address cycle.  
> 
> Ok, this is somewhat embarassing:
> 
> It doesn't work, but reverting disabling DMA altogether doesn't make it
> work now either. It might be that it doesn't behave deterministically,
> but more likely I just fucked up the testing and was testing a wrong
> tree.

No worries. It might also be me messing up with one of your fixes (I've
slightly changed the one fixing the SYN_REG() macro, and if others
have been changed, it was not intentional). What are the symptoms?
Still failures in the write path?

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