Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: pxa3xx: make ECC configuration checks more explicit

[Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 03:18:28PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> The Armada BCH configuration in this driver uses one of the two
> following ECC schemes:
> 
>  16-bit correction per 2048 bytes
>  16-bit correction per 1024 bytes
> 
> These are sufficient for mapping to the 4-bit per 512-bytes and 8-bit
> per 512-bytes (respectively) minimum correctability requirements of many
> common NAND.
> 
> The current code only checks for the required strength (4-bit or 8-bit)
> without checking the ECC step size that is associated with that strength
> (and simply assumes it is 512). While that is often a safe assumption to
> make, let's make it explicit, since we have that information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
> index cec81f0..3d143fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
> @@ -1364,9 +1364,13 @@ static int pxa_ecc_init(struct pxa3xx_nand_info *info,
>  
>  static int armada370_ecc_init(struct pxa3xx_nand_info *info,
>  			      struct nand_ecc_ctrl *ecc,
> -			      int strength, int page_size)
> +			      int strength, int ecc_stepsize, int page_size)
>  {
> -	if (strength == 4 && page_size == 4096) {
> +	/*
> +	 * Required ECC: 4-bit correction per 512 bytes
> +	 * Select: 16-bit correction per 2048 bytes
> +	 */
> +	if (strength == 4 && ecc_stepsize == 512 && page_size == 4096) {
>  		info->ecc_bch = 1;
>  		info->chunk_size = 2048;
>  		info->spare_size = 32;
> @@ -1377,7 +1381,11 @@ static int armada370_ecc_init(struct pxa3xx_nand_info *info,
>  		ecc->strength = 16;
>  		return 1;
>  
> -	} else if (strength == 8 && page_size == 4096) {
> +	/*
> +	 * Required ECC: 8-bit correction per 512 bytes
> +	 * Select: 16-bit correction per 1024 bytes
> +	 */
> +	} else if (strength == 8 && ecc_stepsize == 512 && page_size == 4096) {
>  		info->ecc_bch = 1;
>  		info->chunk_size = 1024;
>  		info->spare_size = 0;
> @@ -1485,6 +1493,7 @@ KEEP_CONFIG:
>  	if (info->variant == PXA3XX_NAND_VARIANT_ARMADA370)
>  		ret = armada370_ecc_init(info, &chip->ecc,
>  				   chip->ecc_strength_ds,
> +				   chip->ecc_step_ds,
>  				   mtd->writesize);
>  	else
>  		ret = pxa_ecc_init(info, &chip->ecc,
> -- 
> 1.8.4.2
> 

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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com