On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > Hi Ladis, > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:27:01PM +0200, Ladislav Michl wrote: > > As mtd_peb_write checks for alignment, it fails writing to dataflash: > > barebox$ state -s > > ERROR: state: Failed to write PEB 0, -22 > > ERROR: state: Failed to write circular to 0 length 48, -22 > > WARNING: state: Failed to write state backend bucket, -22 > > ERROR: state: Failed to write PEB 1, -22 > > ERROR: state: Failed to write circular to 0 length 48, -22 > > WARNING: state: Failed to write state backend bucket, -22 > > ERROR: state: Failed to write PEB 2, -22 > > ERROR: state: Failed to write circular to 0 length 48, -22 > > How I read the code the length should be writesize aligned... It is perfectly valid to write less to dataflash... But see bellow. > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/peb.c b/drivers/mtd/peb.c > > index c35b63f2f..6035fbc45 100644 > > --- a/drivers/mtd/peb.c > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/peb.c > > @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ int mtd_peb_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, const void *buf, int pnum, int offset, > > return -EINVAL; > > if (len <= 0) > > return -EINVAL; > > - if (len % (mtd->writesize >> mtd->subpage_sft)) > > + if (mtd->type != MTD_DATAFLASH && len % (mtd->writesize >> mtd->subpage_sft)) > > So how big is mtd->writesize here and is this value correct? Yes, it is correct: dataflash@00: AT45DB041x (528 KBytes) pagesize 264 bytes (OTP) > In state_storage_mtd_buckets_init() we have: > > if (circular) > writesize = meminfo->writesize; > else > writesize = meminfo->erasesize; > > How big are meminfo->writesize and meminfo->erasesize here and > which path is chosen? writesize: 264 erasesize: 264 subpage_sft: 0 circular: true But later we are trying to write 48 bytes: dataflash0.barebox-state: write 48 bytes to PEB 0:0 ladis _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox