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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Iwo Mergler <Iwo.Mergler@netcommwireless.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Test for multi-bit error correction
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:00:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346310033.2848.536.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6871BC8982B258468985EE735D2C57524E269AFB52@ntcex01.corp.netcomm.com.au>

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On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 17:26 +1000, Iwo Mergler wrote:
> This tests ECC biterror recovery on a single NAND page. Mostly intended
> to test ECC hardware and low-level NAND driver.
> 
> There are two test modes:
> 
>     0 - artificially inserting bit errors until the ECC fails
>         This is the default method and fairly quick. It should
>         be independent of the quality of the FLASH.
> 
>     1 - re-writing the same pattern repeatedly until the ECC fails.
>         This method relies on the physics of NAND FLASH to eventually
>         generate '0' bits if '1' has been written sufficient times. Depending
>         on the NAND, the first bit errors will appear after 1000 or
>         more writes and then will usually snowball, reaching the limits
>         of the ECC quickly.

Aiaiai! [1] [2]

dedekind $ ~/git/maintaining$ ./verify ../l2-mtd/ gen < ~/tmp/iwo.mbox 
Tested the patch(es) on top of the following commits:
6936e9d Quick fixes - applied by aiaiai
994b677 mtd: nand: Added a device flag for subpage read support
c2e1dbb mtd: orion_nand: remove <mach/hardware.h> include
d314b3b mtd: bcm47part driver for BCM47XX chipsets

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "arm-omap2plus_defconfig" (architecture arm)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function 'rewrite_page':
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: 'MTD_OOB_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "i386_defconfig" (architecture i386)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function ‘rewrite_page’:
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: ‘MTD_OOB_RAW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "ia64_defconfig" (architecture ia64)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function 'rewrite_page':
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: 'MTD_OOB_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Successfully built configuration "m68k-m5208evb_defconfig,m68k,m68k-linux-", no issues

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "mips64_defconfig" (architecture mips)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function 'rewrite_page':
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: 'MTD_OOB_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Successfully built configuration "mips-bcm63xx_defconfig,mips,mips-linux-", no issues

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "ppc32_defconfig" (architecture powerpc)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function 'rewrite_page':
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: 'MTD_OOB_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "ppc64_defconfig" (architecture powerpc)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c: In function 'rewrite_page':
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: 'MTD_OOB_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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Failed to build the following commit for configuration "x86_64_defconfig" (architecture x86_64)":

049c1f5 Test for multi-bit error correction

drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: error: ‘MTD_OOB_RAW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:152:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[4]: *** [drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.o] Error 1

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checkpatch.pl has some complaints:

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checkpatch.pl results for patch "[PATCH] Test for multi-bit error correction"

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#320: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:270:
+                       msg("After %d biterrors per subpage, read reported error %d\n",

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#328: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:278:
+                       msg("ECC failure, read data is incorrect despite read success\n");

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#382: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:332:
+                               msg("Implausible number of bit errors corrected\n");

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#401: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:351:
+                       msg("ECC failure, read data is incorrect despite read success\n");

total: 0 errors, 4 warnings, 464 lines checked

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WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#320: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:270:
+                       msg("After %d biterrors per subpage, read reported error %d\n",

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#328: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:278:
+                       msg("ECC failure, read data is incorrect despite read success\n");

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#382: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:332:
+                               msg("Implausible number of bit errors corrected\n");

WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 80 characters
#401: FILE: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_nandbiterrs.c:351:
+                       msg("ECC failure, read data is incorrect despite read success\n");

total: 0 errors, 4 warnings, 464 lines checked

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References:

1. http://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/aiaiai.git
2. http://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/maintaining.git

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-30  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29  7:26 [PATCH] Test for multi-bit error correction Iwo Mergler
2012-08-30  7:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-08-30  8:05   ` Iwo Mergler
2012-08-30  8:24     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-30 22:49       ` Iwo Mergler
2012-08-30 22:59       ` Iwo Mergler
2012-09-03 15:25         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-09-04  8:16           ` Akinobu Mita
2012-09-05  8:28           ` Iwo Mergler
2012-09-05 18:19         ` Brian Norris
2012-09-06  3:37           ` Iwo Mergler
2012-09-17 18:42             ` Brian Norris
2012-09-23 13:41             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-09-23 13:42         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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