This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: nand: davinci: Reinitialize the HW ECC engine in 4bit hwctl
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mtd-nand-davinci-reinitialize-the-hw-ecc-engine-in-4bit-hwctl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f6d7c1b5598b6407c3f1da795dd54acf99c1990c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:45:49 +0000
Subject: mtd: nand: davinci: Reinitialize the HW ECC engine in 4bit hwctl
From: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f6d7c1b5598b6407c3f1da795dd54acf99c1990c upstream.
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")
Fixes: 6a4123e581b3 ("mtd: nand: davinci_nand, 4-bit ECC for smallpage")
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ static void nand_davinci_hwctl_4bit(stru
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 */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mtd-nand-davinci-reinitialize-the-hw-ecc-engine-in-4bit-hwctl.patch
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