RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories

Yogesh Narayan Gaur
2018-10-23T08:59:22Z

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI
> NOR flash memories
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:18:35 +0000
> Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have added the prints in m25p80_read() and in flexspi controller prepare_lut
> and read_rxfifo() func.
> > In these have added prints for data variable of struct op and data which being
> read by the controller from the flash.
> >
> > [ 2.091467] smpt[0]=[addr_width:00000003, read_dumy:00000008,
> read_opcode:00000065, data_mask:00000008]
> > [ 2.099113] m25p80_read, nor[op:00000065 addr_width:00000003,
> dummy:00000008, len:00000001
> > [ 2.107367] m25p80_read, cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:4, nbytes:3,
> bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.114753] m25p80_read, dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[bwidth:1,
> nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.121706] nxp_fspi_prepare_lut cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:4,
> nbytes:3, bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.129786] dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[dir:0 bwidth:1, nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.136132] nxp-fspi 20c0000.flexspi: CMD[65] lutval[0:8180465
> 1:24003008 2:0 3:0]
> > [ 2.144223] nxp_fspi_read_rxfifo, ReadData op.buf[0x00]
> > [ 2.151004] smpt_read[1] addr[00000004], data_byte[00000000]
> err:00000000
> >
> >
> > [ 2.157782] smpt[2]=[addr_width:00000003, read_dumy:00000008,
> read_opcode:00000065, data_mask:00000004]
> > [ 2.165429] m25p80_read, nor[op:00000065 addr_width:00000003,
> dummy:00000008, len:00000001
> > [ 2.173683] m25p80_read, cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:2, nbytes:3,
> bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.181068] m25p80_read, dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[bwidth:1,
> nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.188021] nxp_fspi_prepare_lut cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:2,
> nbytes:3, bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.196101] dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[dir:0 bwidth:1, nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.202447] nxp-fspi 20c0000.flexspi: CMD[65] lutval[0:8180465
> 1:24003008 2:0 3:0]
> > [ 2.210539] nxp_fspi_read_rxfifo, ReadData op.buf[0x02]
> > [ 2.217319] smpt_read[3] addr[00000002], data_byte[00000002]
> err:00000000
> >
> >
> > [ 2.224098] smpt[4]=[addr_width:00000003, read_dumy:00000008,
> read_opcode:00000065, data_mask:00000002]
> > [ 2.231744] m25p80_read, nor[op:00000065 addr_width:00000003,
> dummy:00000008, len:00000001
> > [ 2.239998] m25p80_read, cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:4, nbytes:3,
> bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.247383] m25p80_read, dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[bwidth:1,
> nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.254336] nxp_fspi_prepare_lut cmd[opcode:65 bwidth:1] aadr[val:4,
> nbytes:3, bwidth:1]
> > [ 2.262416] dummy[nbytes:1 bwidth:1] data[dir:0 bwidth:1, nbytes:1]
> > [ 2.268762] nxp-fspi 20c0000.flexspi: CMD[65] lutval[0:8180465
> 1:24003008 2:0 3:0]
> > [ 2.276854] nxp_fspi_read_rxfifo, ReadData op.buf[0x00]
> > [ 2.283634] smpt_read[5] addr[00000004], data_byte[00000000]
> err:00000000
> >
> >
> > [ 2.290412] spi_nor_get_map_in_use:2915 map_id=0 smpt_len:16 i=:6
> > [ 2.296496] End [addr_width:00000003, read_dumy:00000008,
> read_opcode:00000065] ReturnVal:00000000
> > [ 2.305444] spi_nor_parse_smpt:3065
> > [ 2.308924] m25p80 spi0.0: failed to parse SMPT (err = -22)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Next thing you can do is read the CR2NV reg (using the RDAR command)
> > > and check the RL (Read Latency) and AL (Address Length) values.
> >
> > Please let me know how to read CR2NV register.
>
> Actually, RDAR is already what you use to read the map_id, and we need to use
> it to read the register that contains the number of dummy cycles and the number
> of address bytes to use for RDAR operations. Looks like we have a chicken and
> egg situation here :-).
>
> Let's try something else:
>
> 1/ create an u8 array of 16 entries named data_bytes
>
> for each loop iteration (the first for loop):
> 2/ set ->addr_width to 3 and ->read_dummy to 0 3/ call spi_nor_read_raw(nor,
> addr, ARRAY_SIZE(data_bytes), data_bytes) 4/ dump the data_bytes buf 5/ set -
> >addr_width to 4 6/ call spi_nor_read_raw(nor, addr, ARRAY_SIZE(data_bytes),
> data_bytes) 7/ dump the data_bytes buf
>
> If the SPI driver is working correctly, we should be able to figure out the right
> value for ->addr_width and ->read_dummy.
>

Ok, I would try with the suggested change.
But till the point we not able to figure out actual failure reason can we have below changes pushed-in

@@ -3139,6 +3177,17 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_sfdp(struct spi_nor *nor,
switch (SFDP_PARAM_HEADER_ID(param_header)) {
case SFDP_SECTOR_MAP_ID:
err = spi_nor_parse_smpt(nor, param_header);
+ if (err) {
+ dev_warn(dev,
+ "failed to parse SMPT (err = %d)\n",
+ err);
+ /*
+ * SMPT parsing is optional, let's not drop
+ * all information we extracted so far just
+ * because it failed.
+ */
+ err = 0;
+ }

--
Regards
Yogesh Gaur.

> Thanks,
>
> Boris