From: viresh.kumar@st.com (viresh kumar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V3 25/63 resend] Newly erased page read workaround
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:51:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2FDD62.4040106@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6187de0568d1ea8a6aeb6c3ca54ac6684bee9973.1292833228.git.viresh.kumar@st.com>
On 12/20/2010 02:49 PM, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> From: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar@st.com>
>
> A newly erased page contains ff in data as well as spare area. While reading an
> erased page, the read out ecc from spare area does not match the ecc generated
> by fsmc ecc hardware accelarator. This is because ecc of data ff ff is not ff
> ff. This leads to errors when jffs2 fs erases and reads back the pages to
> ensure consistency.
>
> This patch adds a software workaround to ensure that the ecc check is not
> performed for erased pages. An erased page is checked by checking data as ff ff.
David,
Does this patch looks fine to you??
--
viresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-20 8:25 [PATCH V3 00/63] Updating SPEAr Support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 01/63] ARM: move sev definition to common system.h include file Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 02/63] sp810 Fix: Switch to slow mode before sysctl_soft_reset Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 03/63] ST SPEAr: Padmux code Updated Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 04/63] ST SPEAr: Making clock functions more generic Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 05/63] ST SPEAr: Formalized timer support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 06/63] ST SPEAr13XX: Adding machine specific header files Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 07/63] ST SPEAr13XX: Adding machine specific src files Viresh Kumar
2011-01-14 10:08 ` stanley.miao
2011-01-14 10:09 ` viresh kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 08/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for SPEAr13xx SoC in spear generic plat/ Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 09/63] ST SPEAr13XX: Added compilation support in arch/arm/ Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 10/63] ST SPEAr1300: Adding default config file Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 11/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for CLCD on SPEAr3xx/6xx Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 12/63] ST SPEAr: Updating Clock Support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 13/63] ST SPEAr: Adding Debugfs support on clock framework Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 14/63] ST SPEAr: Correcting SOC Config base address for spear320 Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 15/63] ST SPEAr: Adding PLGPIO driver for spear platform Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 17/63] ST SPEAr: Adding machine support for rtc-spear Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 18/63] ST SPEAr: adding support for synopsis i2c designware Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 19/63] ST SPEAr: Adding machine support for USB host Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 20/63] ST SPEAr: Adding machine support for keyboard Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 21/63] ST SPEAr: Added ARM PL061 GPIO Support on SPEAr13xx and modified resource size Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 22/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for ST's PWM IP Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 23/63] ST SPEAr: Adding Watchdog support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 24/63] ST SPEAr: Adding machine support for nand Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 25/63] Newly erased page read workaround Viresh Kumar
2011-01-14 5:21 ` viresh kumar [this message]
2011-01-14 12:36 ` Linus Walleij
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 26/63] ST SPEAr: Added PCIE host controller base driver support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 27/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for SSP PL022 Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 28/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for SDHCI (SDIO) Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 29/63] ST SPEAr: Changing resource size of amba devices to SZ_4K Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 30/63] ST SPEAr: Replacing SIZE macro's with actual required size Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 31/63] SPEAr: defines base addresses as ulong Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 32/63] ST SPEAr: Adding miscellaneous devices Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 33/63] ST SPEAr 13xx : Adding support for SPEAr1310 Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 34/63] ST SPEAr: Adding support for DDR in clock framework Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 35/63] ST SPEAr : EMI (Extrenal Memory Interface) controller driver Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 36/63] ST SPEAr : FSMC (Flexible Static Memory Controller) NOR interface driver Viresh Kumar
2010-12-26 15:38 ` Linus Walleij
2011-01-03 3:48 ` viresh kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 37/63] SPEAr Clock Framework: Adding support for PLL frequency change Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 38/63] SPEAr Power Management: Added the support for Standby mode Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:25 ` [PATCH V3 39/63] GIC: Added dummy handlers for Power Management Suspend Resume Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 11:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-20 11:32 ` viresh kumar
2010-12-20 11:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-20 12:20 ` [PATCH V3 39/63] GIC: Added dummy handlers for Power ManagementSuspend Resume Santosh Shilimkar
2010-12-20 12:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-20 12:34 ` [PATCH V3 39/63] GIC: Added dummy handlers for PowerManagementSuspend Resume Santosh Shilimkar
2010-12-21 4:17 ` [PATCH V3 39/63] GIC: Added dummy handlers for Power Management Suspend Resume viresh kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 40/63] SPEAr CPU freq: Adding support for CPU Freq framework Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 41/63] ST SPEAr13xx: Adding CPU hotplug support added for SMP platforms Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 42/63] ST SPEAr: replace readl, writel with __raw_readl, __raw_writel in uncompress.h Viresh Kumar
2011-01-07 2:26 ` stanley.miao
2011-01-07 9:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-07 9:38 ` stanley.miao
2011-01-11 5:39 ` viresh kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 43/63] ST SPEAr13xx: add L2 cache support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 44/63] ST SPEAr13xx: Modified static mappings Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 45/63] SPEAr: Adding and Updating Clock definitions Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 46/63] SPEAr : Pad multiplexing handling modified Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 47/63] SPEAr13xx : Fixed part devices in SPEAr13xx addded to the generic implementation Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 48/63] SPEAr : Updating pad multiplexing support Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 49/63] ST SPEAr3xx: Passing pmx devices address from machine *.c files Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 50/63] ST SPEAr Clock Framework: Updating for single image solution Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 51/63] SPEAr3xx: Make local structures static Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 52/63] SPEAR3xx: Rename register/irq defines to remove naming conflicts Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 53/63] SPEAr3xx: Rework pmx_dev code to remove conflicts Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 54/63] SPEAr3xx: Rework KConfig to allow all boards to be compiled in Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 55/63] SPEAr3xx: Replace defconfigs with single unified defconfig Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 56/63] ST SPEAr: Appending spear3** with global structures Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 57/63] ST SPEAr3xx: Updating plgpio and emi source to make it compliant with single image strategy Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 58/63] SPEAr6xx: Rework Kconfig for single image solution Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 59/63] ST SPEAR6xx: renaming spear600_defconfig as spear6xx_defconfig Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 60/63] ST SPEAr13xx: Pass default padmux settings as parameter to spear13**_init routine Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 61/63] ST SPEAr: Adding devices & clocks Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 62/63] ST SPEAr: Adding information in Documentation/ and MAINTAINERS Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:26 ` [PATCH V3 63/63] ST SPEAr: Updating defconfigs Viresh Kumar
2010-12-20 8:28 ` [PATCH V3 16/63 resend] rtc: Adding support for spear rtc Viresh Kumar
2011-01-12 9:41 ` viresh kumar
2010-12-23 12:13 ` [PATCH V3 00/63] Updating SPEAr Support Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-24 4:01 ` viresh kumar
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