Hi Boris,
>From: Boris BREZILLON
>
>This patch aims to add per partition ECC config for NAND devices.
>It defines a new field in the mtd struct to store the mtd ECC config and
>thus each mtd partition device can store its config instead of using the
>default NAND chip config.
>
>This feature is needed to support the sunxi boot0 paritition case:
>Allwinner boot code (BROM) requires a specific HW ECC for its boot code
>that may not fit the HW NAND requirements for the entire NAND chip.
>
>Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <[email protected]>
>---
>Hello,
>
>This patch is just a draft that implement per partition ECC config.
>It's currently not properly splitted (it should be separated in several
>patches) and not documented either.
>
>There's at least one point that bother me in the current implementation:
>I introduced DT notions in the nand core code by the mean of the get_ecc_ctrl
>callback, and so far this was kept out of mtd/nand core code (I guess it was
>on purpose).
>
>Please let me know if you see other drawbacks.
>
>If you think per partition ECC should not be implemented, could you help me
>find a way to handle sunxi specific case decribed above ?
>
There was a discussion on having per partition based ECC earlier [1].
Though I was not in favor of supporting it earlier, but your proposal looks
good.
However, I still feel there are more caveats here, to explore..
[...]
>@@ -364,7 +367,13 @@ static struct mtd_part *allocate_partition(struct
>mtd_info *master,
> slave->mtd.writesize = master->writesize;
> slave->mtd.writebufsize = master->writebufsize;
> slave->mtd.oobsize = master->oobsize;
>- slave->mtd.oobavail = master->oobavail;
>+ if (part->eccctrl) {
>+ slave->mtd.eccctrl = part->eccctrl;
>+ slave->mtd.oobavail = part->eccctrl->layout->oobavail;
>+ } else {
>+ slave->mtd.eccctrl = master->eccctrl;
>+ slave->mtd.oobavail = master->oobavail;
>+ }
> slave->mtd.subpage_sft = master->subpage_sft;
>
> slave->mtd.name = name;
>@@ -515,9 +524,15 @@ static struct mtd_part *allocate_partition(struct
>mtd_info *master,
> part->name);
> }
>
>- slave->mtd.ecclayout = master->ecclayout;
>- slave->mtd.ecc_step_size = master->ecc_step_size;
>- slave->mtd.ecc_strength = master->ecc_strength;
>+ if (part->eccctrl) {
>+ slave->mtd.ecclayout = part->eccctrl->layout;
>+ slave->mtd.ecc_step_size = part->eccctrl->size;
>+ slave->mtd.ecc_strength = part->eccctrl->strength;
You have to replicate 'struct nand_ecc_ctrl' from 'nand_chip' to 'mtd_info'
because each ECC algorithm may have its own callback for hwctl(), calculate(),
and correct().
How do you plan to populate those ? In driver probe ?
>+ } else {
>+ slave->mtd.ecclayout = master->ecclayout;
>+ slave->mtd.ecc_step_size = master->ecc_step_size;
>+ slave->mtd.ecc_strength = master->ecc_strength;
>+ }
> slave->mtd.bitflip_threshold = master->bitflip_threshold;
>
> if (master->_block_isbad) {
[...]
>+const struct nand_ecc_ctrl *nand_get_ecc_ctrl(struct mtd_info *mtd,
>+ nand_ecc_modes_t mode,
>+ struct device_node *np)
>+{
>+ struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv;
>+ struct nand_ecc_ctrl *ecc;
>+ u32 ecc_step, ecc_strength;
>+ int ret;
>+
>+ if (mode != NAND_ECC_NONE && mode != NAND_ECC_SOFT &&
>+ mode != NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH)
>+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>+
>+ ecc = kzalloc(sizeof(*ecc), GFP_KERNEL);
>+ if (!ecc)
>+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>+
>+ ecc->size = chip->ecc_step_ds;
>+ ecc->strength = chip->ecc_strength_ds;
>+ if (!of_get_nand_ecc_level(np, &ecc_strength, &ecc_step)) {
>+ ecc->size = ecc_step;
>+ ecc->strength = ecc_strength;
>+ }
>+
Here we may need to ecc_strength for each partition.
Example: for OMAP3 ROM supports only HAM1 (1-bit hamming),
but kernel may support up-to BCH8 (8-bit BCH) ECC schemes.
But, anyways that's specific to OMAP platforms..
>+ switch (mode) {
>+ case NAND_ECC_NONE:
>+ break;
>+ case NAND_ECC_SOFT:
>+ break;
>+ case NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH:
>+ ecc->bytes = ((ecc->strength * fls(8 * ecc->size)) + 7) / 8;
>+ break;
>+ default:
>+ ret = -EINVAL;
>+ goto err;
>+ }
>+
>+ ecc->mode = mode;
>+ ret = nand_ecc_ctrl_init(mtd, ecc);
>+ if (ret)
>+ goto err;
>+
>+ ecc->release = nand_release_ecc_ctrl;
>+
>+ return ecc;
>+
>+err:
>+ kfree(ecc);
>+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
>+}
>+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nand_get_ecc_ctrl);
>+
I'll be happy to extend and test this, if you plan a complete version.
[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/108083
(you can skip initial discussion about OMAP3, and jump to Thomas Petazzoni | 2
Dec 17:19 2013)
with regards, pekon
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