Re: UBIFS: power cut test on 2.6.35 + NOR

[Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>]

于 2013年06月29日 10:08, Brian Norris 写道:
> (Adding Huang, who has also debugged (different) problems with this NOR driver)
>
> Hi Enrico,
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:36 AM, enrico benetti
> <enrico.benetti@bluewind.it>  wrote:
>> [   20.391279] MTD do_write_buffer(): software timeout
>> [   20.452081] UBI error: nor_erase_prepare: cannot invalidate PEB 25,
>> write returned -5 read returned 2
>>
>> Digging the web, I've found several discussions on write-timeout with
>> NOR devices
>> (cfr.http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-June/047177.html),
>> but this seems not to be the root cause.
> I'm curious: what makes you think this has a different root cause?
>
> I'm still working on debugging the do_write_buffer timeout on my
> systems. I'd recommend trying to increase the timeout in
> do_write_buffer(), just to see if your kernel isn't waiting long
> enough. (In my case, I can pretty well show that while the code *says*
> it's waiting for a whole jiffy -- at least 1ms -- it is in fact
> waiting less than that.)
>
> I believe Huang's resolution for his problem was actually a problem
> with the flash part itself.
yes.
For my timeout, Micron confirmed that there is a silicon bug in this 
type of NOR.


thanks
Huang Shijie