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From: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Keep bank enable bit set
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 23:12:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190109231259.1ef5d31a@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190109215144.15749-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org>

On Wed,  9 Jan 2019 22:51:44 +0100
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hammering the "bank enable" (PBKEN) bit on and off between
> every command crashes the Nomadik NHK15 with this message:
> 
> Scanning device for bad blocks
> Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x008) at 0xcc95e000
> pgd = (ptrval)
> [cc95e000] *pgd=0b808811, *pte=40000653, *ppte=40000552
> Internal error: : 8 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.20.0-rc2+ #72
> Hardware name: Nomadik STn8815
> PC is at fsmc_exec_op+0x194/0x204
> (...)
> 
> After a discussion we (me and Boris Brezillion) start to suspect

				      ^ Brezillon :-)

> that this bit does not immediately control the chip select line
> at all, it rather enables access to the bank and the hardware
> will drive the CS autonomously. If there is a NAND chip connected,
> we should keep this enabled.
> 
> As fsmc_nand_setup() sets this bit, we can simply remove the
> offending code.
> 
> Fixes: 550b9fc4e3af ("mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Stop implementing ->select_chip()")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

Would be great if someone could validate our assumption with a scope.
This being said, given the description of the FSMC logic, I have little
doubt that this bit does not directly controls the CE line, otherwise
concurrent accesses to different memories on the same bus wouldn't work
or would require a lot more synchronization than we currently have in
Linux.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-09 21:51 [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Keep bank enable bit set Linus Walleij
2019-01-09 22:12 ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2019-01-10  8:42   ` Miquel Raynal
2019-01-14  8:51 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-01-17 21:33   ` Linus Walleij
2019-01-18  6:36     ` Boris Brezillon
2019-01-18 11:44 ` Boris Brezillon

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