Re: [PATCH] mtd: brcmnand: Workaround false ECC uncorrectable errors

[Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>]

On 02/12/15 21:08, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Brian Norris
> <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> BTW, I think Kamal had code to handle protecting bitflips in erased
>> pages code in the Broadcom STB Linux BSP. Perhaps he can port that to
>> upstream with nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk()? IIUC, that would probably
>> handle your case too, Simon, although it wouldn't be optimal for an
>> all-0xff check (i.e., bitflip_threshold == 0).
>>
>> If that's really an issue (i.e., we have an implementation + data), I'm
>> sure we could add optimization to nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk() to
>> support the bitflip_threshold == 0 case.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't the point of introducing
> nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk that bitflips in erased pages should be
> treated as bitflips corrected by the ecc, and therefore fixed up
> before passing the data further on? So having a theshold of 0 would be
> wrong / no protection at all, and could be quite destructive on MLC
> nand, where bitflips in erased pages are rather common.

Without this patch I can't access erased pages at all. I don't know if
the controller will still return an uncorrectable error if the page is
erased but has 1 or more bit flips.

-- 
Simon Arlott