Re: [PATCH 2/4] mtd: mxc_nand: limit the size of used oob

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Uwe,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:31:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:43:41PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:50:23AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:20:57AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:12:38AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > Hmm I rechecked the reference manual and found a register to specify the
> > > > > size of the spare area (I didn't notice that one before). Did you try
> > > > > what happens if you set this to 0x70 for 224 bytes oob?
> > > > 
> > > > Which register is that?
> > > Spare Area Size Register (SPAS) at offset 0x1e10 for the i.MX25 (that's
> > > what you're using, don't you?).
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I'm using.
> > 
> > I tried setting the SPAS register to oobsize/2 (0x70 in my case), but I see no 
> > change in behaviour. Moreover, it turns out the previously Barebox set this 
> > register (apparently wrongly) to 0x20 for spare size of 64. Current Barebox 
> > master still do. For v3 Barebox limits CONFIG2_SPAS to 218 bytes spare size 
> I guess for v21 writing to SPAS is just what the controller assumes
> after reset. I.e. that a 512-byte nand has 16 bytes spare and a 2k-nand
> has 64.
> 
> > since Eric Bénard's commit 632c45795065 (nand_imx: update to support onfi & 4k 
> > flashs, 2012-07-05). As you can see, the kernel doesn't touch this register 
> > for v2 NFC.
> right.
> 
> > I have no idea what is the effect of the SPAS in v2 (or any other) NFC.
> I didn't try, but I'm surprised it doesn't make a difference. How did
> you test? I'd do in barebox:
> 
> 	memset -w 0xbb000000 0x55 0x1200
> 	set SPAS to 218/2
> 	trigger page read
> 	check how much of the 0x55 was overwritten
> 	set SPAS to 224/2
> 	trigger page read
> 	compare with above

Just did this test. No matter how I set SPAS, Only first 26 bytes of each 64 
bytes spare data buffer chunk are overwritten. I tried setting SPAS to 224/2 
(0x70), 218/2 (0x6d), and 128/2 (0x40).

baruch

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