[PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: introduce the mtd_pairing_scheme concept

Boris Brezillon
2016-06-20T13:51:13Z

MLC and TLC NAND devices are using NAND cells exposing more than one bit,
but instead of attaching all the bits in a given cell to a single NAND
page, each bit is usually attached to a different page. This concept is
called 'page pairing', and has significant impacts on the flash storage
usage.
The main problem showed by these devices is that interrupting a page
program operation may not only corrupt the page we are programming
but also the page it is paired with, hence the need to expose to MTD
users the pairing scheme information.

The pairing APIs allows one to query pairing information attached to a
given page (here called wunit), or the other way around (the wunit
pointed by pairing information).
It also provides several helpers to help the conversion between absolute
offsets and wunits, and query the number of pairing groups.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
---
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 1 +
include/linux/mtd/mtd.h | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 201 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index e3936b847c6b..decceb9fdf32 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -376,6 +376,100 @@ static int mtd_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *n, unsigned long state,
}

/**
+ * mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info - get pairing information of a wunit
+ * @mtd: pointer to new MTD device info structure
+ * @wunit: write unit we are interrested in
+ * @info: pairing information struct
+ *
+ * Retrieve pairing information associated to the wunit.
+ * This is mainly useful when dealing with MLC/TLC NANDs where pages can be
+ * paired together, and where programming a page may influence the page it is
+ * paired with.
+ * The notion of page is replaced by the term wunit (write-unit) to stay
+ * consistent with the ->writesize field.
+ *
+ * The @wunit argument can be extracted from an absolute offset using
+ * mtd_offset_to_wunit(). @info is filled with the pairing information attached
+ * to @wunit.
+ *
+ * From the pairing info the MTD user can find all the wunits paired with
+ * @wunit using the following loop:
+ *
+ * for (i = 0; i < mtd_pairing_groups(mtd); i++) {
+ * info.pair = i;
+ * mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit(mtd, &info);
+ * ...
+ * }
+ */
+void mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info(struct mtd_info *mtd, int wunit,
+ struct mtd_pairing_info *info)
+{
+ if (!mtd->pairing || !mtd->pairing->get_info) {
+ info->group = 0;
+ info->pair = wunit;
+ } else {
+ mtd->pairing->get_info(mtd, wunit, info);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info);
+
+/**
+ * mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info - get wunit from pairing information
+ * @mtd: pointer to new MTD device info structure
+ * @info: pairing information struct
+ *
+ * Returns a positive number representing the wunit associated to the info
+ * struct, or a negative error code.
+ *
+ * This is the reverse of mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info(), and can help one to
+ * iterate over all wunits of a given pair (see mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info()
+ * doc).
+ *
+ * It can also be used to only program the first page of each pair (i.e.
+ * page attached to group 0), which allows one to use an MLC NAND in
+ * software-emulated SLC mode:
+ *
+ * info.group = 0;
+ * for (info.pair = 0; info < mtd_wunit_per_eb(mtd); info.pair++) {
+ * wunit = mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit(mtd, &info);
+ * mtd_write(mtd, mtd_wunit_to_offset(mtd, blkoffs, wunit),
+ * mtd->writesize, &retlen, buf + (i * mtd->writesize));
+ * }
+ */
+int mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit(struct mtd_info *mtd,
+ const struct mtd_pairing_info *info)
+{
+ if (!mtd->pairing || !mtd->pairing->get_info) {
+ if (info->group)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return info->pair;
+ }
+
+ return mtd->pairing->get_wunit(mtd, info);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit);
+
+/**
+ * mtd_pairing_groups - get the number of pairing groups
+ * @mtd: pointer to new MTD device info structure
+ *
+ * Returns the number of pairing groups.
+ *
+ * This number is usually equal to the number of bits exposed by a single
+ * cell, and can be used in conjunction with mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit()
+ * to iterate over all pages of a given pair.
+ */
+int mtd_pairing_groups(struct mtd_info *mtd)
+{
+ if (!mtd->pairing || !mtd->pairing->ngroups)
+ return 1;
+
+ return mtd->pairing->ngroups;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_pairing_groups);
+
+/**
* add_mtd_device - register an MTD device
* @mtd: pointer to new MTD device info structure
*
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index 1f13e32556f8..e32a0ac2298f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ static struct mtd_part *allocate_partition(struct mtd_info *master,
slave->mtd.oobsize = master->oobsize;
slave->mtd.oobavail = master->oobavail;
slave->mtd.subpage_sft = master->subpage_sft;
+ slave->mtd.pairing = master->pairing;

slave->mtd.name = name;
slave->mtd.owner = master->owner;
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index 29a170612203..00bcacb16176 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -127,6 +127,81 @@ struct mtd_ooblayout_ops {
struct mtd_oob_region *oobfree);
};

+/**
+ * struct mtd_pairing_info - page pairing information
+ *
+ * @pair: pair id
+ * @group: group id
+ *
+ * The pair word is used here, even though TLC NANDs might group pages by 3
+ * (3 bits in a single cell). A pair should regroup all pages that are sharing
+ * the same cell. Pairs are then indexed in ascending order.
+ *
+ * @group is defining the position of a page in a given pair. It can also be
+ * seen as the bit position in the cell: page attached to bit 0 belongs to
+ * group 0, page attached to bit 1 belongs to group 1, etc.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ * The H27UCG8T2BTR-BC datasheet describes the following pairing scheme:
+ *
+ * group-0 group-1
+ *
+ * pair-0 page-0 page-4
+ * pair-1 page-1 page-5
+ * pair-2 page-2 page-8
+ * ...
+ * pair-127 page-251 page-255
+ *
+ *
+ * Note that the "group" and "pair" terms were extracted from Samsung and
+ * Hynix datasheets, and might be referenced under other names in other
+ * datasheets (Micron is describing this concept as "shared pages").
+ */
+struct mtd_pairing_info {
+ int pair;
+ int group;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct mtd_pairing_scheme - page pairing scheme description
+ *
+ * @ngroups: number of groups. Should be related to the number of bits
+ * per cell.
+ * @get_info: converts a write-unit (page number within an erase block) into
+ * mtd_pairing information (pair + group). This function should
+ * fill the info parameter based on the wunit index.
+ * @get_wunit: converts pairing information into a write-unit (page) number.
+ * This function should return the wunit index pointed by the
+ * pairing information described in the info argument. It should
+ * return -EINVAL, if there's no wunit corresponding to the
+ * passed pairing information.
+ *
+ * See mtd_pairing_info documentation for a detailed explanation of the
+ * pair and group concepts.
+ *
+ * The mtd_pairing_scheme structure provides a generic solution to represent
+ * NAND page pairing scheme. Instead of exposing two big tables to do the
+ * write-unit <-> (pair + group) conversions, we ask the MTD drivers to
+ * implement the ->get_info() and ->get_wunit() functions.
+ *
+ * MTD users will then be able to query these information by using the
+ * mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit() and mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info() helpers.
+ *
+ * @ngroups is here to help MTD users iterating over all the pages in a
+ * given pair. This value can be retrieved by MTD users using the
+ * mtd_pairing_groups() helper.
+ *
+ * Examples are given in the mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit() and
+ * mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info() documentation.
+ */
+struct mtd_pairing_scheme {
+ int ngroups;
+ void (*get_info)(struct mtd_info *mtd, int wunit,
+ struct mtd_pairing_info *info);
+ int (*get_wunit)(struct mtd_info *mtd,
+ const struct mtd_pairing_info *info);
+};
+
struct module; /* only needed for owner field in mtd_info */

struct mtd_info {
@@ -188,6 +263,9 @@ struct mtd_info {
/* OOB layout description */
const struct mtd_ooblayout_ops *ooblayout;

+ /* NAND pairing scheme, only provided for MLC/TLC NANDs */
+ const struct mtd_pairing_scheme *pairing;
+
/* the ecc step size. */
unsigned int ecc_step_size;

@@ -296,6 +374,12 @@ static inline void mtd_set_ooblayout(struct mtd_info *mtd,
mtd->ooblayout = ooblayout;
}

+static inline void mtd_set_pairing_scheme(struct mtd_info *mtd,
+ const struct mtd_pairing_scheme *pairing)
+{
+ mtd->pairing = pairing;
+}
+
static inline void mtd_set_of_node(struct mtd_info *mtd,
struct device_node *np)
{
@@ -312,6 +396,11 @@ static inline int mtd_oobavail(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct mtd_oob_ops *ops)
return ops->mode == MTD_OPS_AUTO_OOB ? mtd->oobavail : mtd->oobsize;
}

+void mtd_wunit_to_pairing_info(struct mtd_info *mtd, int wunit,
+ struct mtd_pairing_info *info);
+int mtd_pairing_info_to_wunit(struct mtd_info *mtd,
+ const struct mtd_pairing_info *info);
+int mtd_pairing_groups(struct mtd_info *mtd);
int mtd_erase(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr);
int mtd_point(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t *retlen,
void **virt, resource_size_t *phys);
@@ -397,6 +486,23 @@ static inline uint32_t mtd_mod_by_ws(uint64_t sz, struct mtd_info *mtd)
return do_div(sz, mtd->writesize);
}

+static inline int mtd_wunit_per_eb(struct mtd_info *mtd)
+{
+ return mtd->erasesize / mtd->writesize;
+}
+
+static inline int mtd_offset_to_wunit(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t offs)
+{
+ return mtd_div_by_ws(mtd_mod_by_eb(offs, mtd), mtd);
+}
+
+static inline loff_t mtd_wunit_to_offset(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t base,
+ int wunit)
+{
+ return base + (wunit * mtd->writesize);
+}
+
+
static inline int mtd_has_oob(const struct mtd_info *mtd)
{
return mtd->_read_oob && mtd->_write_oob;
--
2.7.4