[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] mtd: rawnand: pxa3xx: fix 2kiB pages with 8b strength chips layout

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Thu Oct 11 15:45:44 UTC 2018


The initial layout for such NAND chips was the following:

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 32 (free OOB) | 30 (ECC) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

This layout has a weakness: reading empty pages trigger ECC errors
(this is expected), but the hardware ECC engine tries to correct the
data anyway and creates itself bitflips, hence bitflips are detected
in erased pages while actually there are none in the NAND chip.

Two solutions have been found at the same time. One was to enlarge the
free OOB area to 64 bytes, changing the layout to be:

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 64 (free OOB) | 30 (ECC) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                                    ^^

The very big drawbacks of this solution are:
1/ It prevents booting from NAND.
2/ The current Linux driver (marvell_nand) does not have such problem
because it already re-reads possible empty pages in raw mode before
checking for bitflips. Using different layouts in U-Boot and Linux
would simply not work.

As this driver does support raw reads now and uses it to check for
empty pages, let's forget about this broken hack and return to the
initial layout with only 32 free OOB bytes.

Fixes: ac56a3b30c ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: add support for 2KB 8-bit flash")
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c
index 492485b1d0..4d2712df4c 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c
@@ -327,14 +327,14 @@ static struct nand_ecclayout ecc_layout_2KB_bch4bit = {
 static struct nand_ecclayout ecc_layout_2KB_bch8bit = {
 	.eccbytes = 64,
 	.eccpos = {
-		64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  69,  70,  71,
-		72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77,  78,  79,
-		80,  81,  82,  83,  84,  85,  86,  87,
-		88,  89,  90,  91,  92,  93,  94,  95,
-		96,  97,  98,  99,  100, 101, 102, 103,
-		104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111,
-		112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119,
-		120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127},
+		32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
+		40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47,
+		48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
+		56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63,
+		64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71,
+		72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79,
+		80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
+		88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95},
 	.oobfree = { {1, 4}, {6, 26} }
 };
 
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ static int pxa_ecc_init(struct pxa3xx_nand_info *info,
 		info->chunk_size = 1024;
 		info->spare_size = 0;
 		info->last_chunk_size = 1024;
-		info->last_spare_size = 64;
+		info->last_spare_size = 32;
 		info->ecc_size = 32;
 		ecc->mode = NAND_ECC_HW;
 		ecc->size = info->chunk_size;
-- 
2.17.1



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