Hi Kyle,

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:01:50 -0500
Kyle Roeschley <[email protected]> wrote:

> If erasing or writing the BBT fails, we should mark the current BBT
> block as bad and use the BBT descriptor to scan for the next available
> unused block in the BBT. We should only return a failure if there isn't
> any space left.
> 
> Based on original code implemented by Jeff Westfahl
> <[email protected]>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Roeschley <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Jeff Westfahl <[email protected]>
> ---
> v5: De-duplicate bad block handling
> 
> v4: Don't ignore write protection while marking bad BBT blocks
>     Correctly call block_markbad
>     Minor cleanups
> 
> v3: Don't overload mtd->priv
>     Keep nand_erase_nand from erroring on protected BBT blocks
> 
> v2: Mark OOB area in each block as well as BBT
>     Avoid marking read-only, bad address, or known bad blocks as bad
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> index 2fbb523..c9255f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static int write_bbt(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf,
>  {
>       struct nand_chip *this = mtd_to_nand(mtd);
>       struct erase_info einfo;
> -     int i, res, chip = 0;
> +     int i, res, chip = 0, found_bad_block = 0;
>       int bits, startblock, dir, page, offs, numblocks, sft, sftmsk;
>       int nrchips, pageoffs, ooboffs;
>       uint8_t msk[4];
> @@ -663,6 +663,27 @@ static int write_bbt(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf,
>                       goto write;
>               }
>  
> +next:
> +             if (found_bad_block) {
> +                     /*
> +                      * We found a bad block on the last loop iteration.
> +                      * Mark it as such and see if there's another block
> +                      * available in the BBT area.
> +                      */
> +                     int block = page >>
> +                                 (this->bbt_erase_shift - this->page_shift);
> +                     pr_info("nand_bbt: failed to erase block %d when 
> writing BBT\n",
> +                             block);
> +                     bbt_mark_entry(this, block, BBT_BLOCK_WORN);
> +
> +                     res = this->block_markbad(mtd, to);
> +                     if (res)
> +                             pr_warn("nand_bbt: error %d while marking block 
> %d bad\n",
> +                                     res, block);
> +                     td->pages[chip] = -1;
> +                     found_bad_block = 0;
> +             }
> +

Yet another label in this already non-trivial function. Can we do
something like that [1][2] instead?

Regards,

Boris

>               /*
>                * Automatic placement of the bad block table. Search direction
>                * top -> down?
> @@ -787,14 +808,21 @@ static int write_bbt(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf,
>               einfo.addr = to;
>               einfo.len = 1 << this->bbt_erase_shift;
>               res = nand_erase_nand(mtd, &einfo, 1);
> -             if (res < 0)
> +             if (res == -EIO) {
> +                     found_bad_block = 1;
> +                     goto next;
> +             } else if (res) {
>                       goto outerr;
> +             }
>  
> -             res = scan_write_bbt(mtd, to, len, buf,
> -                             td->options & NAND_BBT_NO_OOB ? NULL :
> -                             &buf[len]);
> -             if (res < 0)
> +             res = scan_write_bbt(mtd, to, len, buf, td->options &
> +                                  NAND_BBT_NO_OOB ? NULL : &buf[len]);
> +             if (res == -EIO) {
> +                     found_bad_block = 1;
> +                     goto next;
> +             } else if (res) {
>                       goto outerr;
> +             }
>  
>               pr_info("Bad block table written to 0x%012llx, version 
> 0x%02X\n",
>                        (unsigned long long)to, td->version[chip]);

[1]http://code.bulix.org/3xbnwr-104986
[2]http://code.bulix.org/e16nvo-104988

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