[U-Boot] [PATCH] NAND: fix "raw" reads with ECC syndrome layouts

dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Nov 7 20:27:29 CET 2009


From: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>

The syndrome based page read/write routines store ECC, and possibly other
"OOB" data, right after each chunk of ECC'd data.  With ECC chunk size of
512 bytes and a large page (2KiB) NAND, the layout is:

  data-0 OOB-0 data-1 OOB-1 data-2 OOB-2 data-3 OOB-3 OOB-leftover

Where OOBx is (prepad, ECC, postpad).  However, the current "raw" routines
use a traditional layout -- data OOB, disregarding the prepad and postpad
values -- so when they're used with that type of ECC hardware, those calls
mix up the data and OOB.  Which means, in particular, that bad block
tables won't be found on startup, with data corruption and related chaos
ensuing.

The current syndrome-based drivers in mainline all seem to use one chunk
per page; presumably they haven't noticed such bugs.

Fix this, by adding read/write page_raw_syndrome() routines as siblings of
the existing non-raw routines; "raw" just means to bypass the ECC
computations, not change data and OOB layout.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
Adding this patch to the U-Boot NAND driver to sync up with the
kernel NAND driver.
There are 2 checkpatch warnings. I will let Scott Wood(u-boot-nand-flash
custodian) decide on whether to fix this or not. E-mails exchanged on the
u-boot mailing list semed to me that this might not be a big issue
especially as we are merely copying from the kernel.
 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index cf032a6..6da261c 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -894,6 +894,8 @@ static int nand_wait(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *this)
  * @chip:	nand chip info structure
  * @buf:	buffer to store read data
  * @page:	page number to read
+ *
+ * Not for syndrome calculating ecc controllers, which use a special oob layout
  */
 static int nand_read_page_raw(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 			      uint8_t *buf, int page)
@@ -904,6 +906,48 @@ static int nand_read_page_raw(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 }
 
 /**
+ * nand_read_page_raw_syndrome - [Intern] read raw page data without ecc
+ * @mtd:	mtd info structure
+ * @chip:	nand chip info structure
+ * @buf:	buffer to store read data
+ * @page:	page number to read
+ *
+ * We need a special oob layout and handling even when OOB isn't used.
+ */
+static int nand_read_page_raw_syndrome(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
+			      uint8_t *buf, int page)
+{
+	int eccsize = chip->ecc.size;
+	int eccbytes = chip->ecc.bytes;
+	uint8_t *oob = chip->oob_poi;
+	int steps, size;
+
+	for (steps = chip->ecc.steps; steps > 0; steps--) {
+		chip->read_buf(mtd, buf, eccsize);
+		buf += eccsize;
+
+		if (chip->ecc.prepad) {
+			chip->read_buf(mtd, oob, chip->ecc.prepad);
+			oob += chip->ecc.prepad;
+		}
+
+		chip->read_buf(mtd, oob, eccbytes);
+		oob += eccbytes;
+
+		if (chip->ecc.postpad) {
+			chip->read_buf(mtd, oob, chip->ecc.postpad);
+			oob += chip->ecc.postpad;
+		}
+	}
+
+	size = mtd->oobsize - (oob - chip->oob_poi);
+	if (size)
+		chip->read_buf(mtd, oob, size);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
  * nand_read_page_swecc - [REPLACABLE] software ecc based page read function
  * @mtd:	mtd info structure
  * @chip:	nand chip info structure
@@ -1682,6 +1726,8 @@ static int nand_read_oob(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from,
  * @mtd:	mtd info structure
  * @chip:	nand chip info structure
  * @buf:	data buffer
+ *
+ * Not for syndrome calculating ecc controllers, which use a special oob layout
  */
 static void nand_write_page_raw(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 				const uint8_t *buf)
@@ -1691,6 +1737,44 @@ static void nand_write_page_raw(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 }
 
 /**
+ * nand_write_page_raw_syndrome - [Intern] raw page write function
+ * @mtd:	mtd info structure
+ * @chip:	nand chip info structure
+ * @buf:	data buffer
+ *
+ * We need a special oob layout and handling even when ECC isn't checked.
+ */
+static void nand_write_page_raw_syndrome(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
+				const uint8_t *buf)
+{
+	int eccsize = chip->ecc.size;
+	int eccbytes = chip->ecc.bytes;
+	uint8_t *oob = chip->oob_poi;
+	int steps, size;
+
+	for (steps = chip->ecc.steps; steps > 0; steps--) {
+		chip->write_buf(mtd, buf, eccsize);
+		buf += eccsize;
+
+		if (chip->ecc.prepad) {
+			chip->write_buf(mtd, oob, chip->ecc.prepad);
+			oob += chip->ecc.prepad;
+		}
+
+		chip->read_buf(mtd, oob, eccbytes);
+		oob += eccbytes;
+
+		if (chip->ecc.postpad) {
+			chip->write_buf(mtd, oob, chip->ecc.postpad);
+			oob += chip->ecc.postpad;
+		}
+	}
+
+	size = mtd->oobsize - (oob - chip->oob_poi);
+	if (size)
+		chip->write_buf(mtd, oob, size);
+}
+/**
  * nand_write_page_swecc - [REPLACABLE] software ecc based page write function
  * @mtd:	mtd info structure
  * @chip:	nand chip info structure
@@ -2781,10 +2865,6 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 	 * check ECC mode, default to software if 3byte/512byte hardware ECC is
 	 * selected and we have 256 byte pagesize fallback to software ECC
 	 */
-	if (!chip->ecc.read_page_raw)
-		chip->ecc.read_page_raw = nand_read_page_raw;
-	if (!chip->ecc.write_page_raw)
-		chip->ecc.write_page_raw = nand_write_page_raw;
 
 	switch (chip->ecc.mode) {
 	case NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST:
@@ -2804,6 +2884,10 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 			chip->ecc.read_page = nand_read_page_hwecc;
 		if (!chip->ecc.write_page)
 			chip->ecc.write_page = nand_write_page_hwecc;
+		if (!chip->ecc.read_page_raw)
+			chip->ecc.read_page_raw = nand_read_page_raw;
+		if (!chip->ecc.write_page_raw)
+			chip->ecc.write_page_raw = nand_write_page_raw;
 		if (!chip->ecc.read_oob)
 			chip->ecc.read_oob = nand_read_oob_std;
 		if (!chip->ecc.write_oob)
@@ -2825,6 +2909,10 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 			chip->ecc.read_page = nand_read_page_syndrome;
 		if (!chip->ecc.write_page)
 			chip->ecc.write_page = nand_write_page_syndrome;
+		if (!chip->ecc.read_page_raw)
+			chip->ecc.read_page_raw = nand_read_page_raw_syndrome;
+		if (!chip->ecc.write_page_raw)
+			chip->ecc.write_page_raw = nand_write_page_raw_syndrome;
 		if (!chip->ecc.read_oob)
 			chip->ecc.read_oob = nand_read_oob_syndrome;
 		if (!chip->ecc.write_oob)
@@ -2843,6 +2931,8 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 		chip->ecc.read_page = nand_read_page_swecc;
 		chip->ecc.read_subpage = nand_read_subpage;
 		chip->ecc.write_page = nand_write_page_swecc;
+		chip->ecc.read_page_raw = nand_read_page_raw;
+		chip->ecc.write_page_raw = nand_write_page_raw;
 		chip->ecc.read_oob = nand_read_oob_std;
 		chip->ecc.write_oob = nand_write_oob_std;
 		chip->ecc.size = 256;
@@ -2855,6 +2945,8 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 		chip->ecc.read_page = nand_read_page_raw;
 		chip->ecc.write_page = nand_write_page_raw;
 		chip->ecc.read_oob = nand_read_oob_std;
+		chip->ecc.read_page_raw = nand_read_page_raw;
+		chip->ecc.write_page_raw = nand_write_page_raw;
 		chip->ecc.write_oob = nand_write_oob_std;
 		chip->ecc.size = mtd->writesize;
 		chip->ecc.bytes = 0;
-- 
1.6.0.4



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