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Message-ID: <20150818064053.GA10641@free64-pc.asiapac.arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:40:53 +0800
From:	Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@....com>
To:	Han Xu <b45815@...escale.com>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, computersforpeace@...il.com,
	boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com, fabio.estevam@...escale.com,
	hofrat@...dl.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vinod.koul@...el.com,
	dan.j.williams@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] mtd: nand: gpmi: may use minimum required ecc for
 744 oobsize NAND

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:24:49PM -0500, Han Xu wrote:
> By default NAND driver will choose the highest ecc strength that oob
> could contain, in this case, for some 8K+744 NAND flash, the ecc
> strength will be up to 52bit, which beyonds the i.MX6QDL BCH capability
> (40bit).
> 
> This patch allows the NAND driver try to use minimum required ecc
> strength if it failed to use the highest ecc, even without explicitly
> claiming "fsl,use-minimum-ecc" in dts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Han Xu <b45815@...escale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> index dfd0ba1..01d24dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static inline bool gpmi_check_ecc(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>   *
>   * We may have available oob space in this case.
>   */
> -static bool set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
> +static int set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  {
>  	struct bch_geometry *geo = &this->bch_geometry;
>  	struct mtd_info *mtd = &this->mtd;
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static bool set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  	unsigned int block_mark_bit_offset;
>  
>  	if (!(chip->ecc_strength_ds > 0 && chip->ecc_step_ds > 0))
> -		return false;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	switch (chip->ecc_step_ds) {
>  	case SZ_512:
> @@ -158,19 +158,19 @@ static bool set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  		dev_err(this->dev,
>  			"unsupported nand chip. ecc bits : %d, ecc size : %d\n",
>  			chip->ecc_strength_ds, chip->ecc_step_ds);
> -		return false;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  	geo->ecc_chunk_size = chip->ecc_step_ds;
>  	geo->ecc_strength = round_up(chip->ecc_strength_ds, 2);
>  	if (!gpmi_check_ecc(this))
> -		return false;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	/* Keep the C >= O */
>  	if (geo->ecc_chunk_size < mtd->oobsize) {
>  		dev_err(this->dev,
>  			"unsupported nand chip. ecc size: %d, oob size : %d\n",
>  			chip->ecc_step_ds, mtd->oobsize);
> -		return false;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* The default value, see comment in the legacy_set_geometry(). */
> @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static bool set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  				+ ALIGN(geo->ecc_chunk_count, 4);
>  
>  	if (!this->swap_block_mark)
> -		return true;
> +		return 0;
>  
>  	/* For bit swap. */
>  	block_mark_bit_offset = mtd->writesize * 8 -
> @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static bool set_geometry_by_ecc_info(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  
>  	geo->block_mark_byte_offset = block_mark_bit_offset / 8;
>  	geo->block_mark_bit_offset  = block_mark_bit_offset % 8;
> -	return true;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int legacy_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
> @@ -366,10 +366,12 @@ static int legacy_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  
>  int common_nfc_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
>  {
> -	if (of_property_read_bool(this->dev->of_node, "fsl,use-minimum-ecc")
> -		&& set_geometry_by_ecc_info(this))
> -		return 0;
> -	return legacy_set_geometry(this);
> +

Please remove the empty line.

> +	if ((of_property_read_bool(this->dev->of_node, "fsl,use-minimum-ecc"))
> +				|| legacy_set_geometry(this))
If the legacy_set_geometry() fails, it will print out an error message.
could you please also change the error log?

thanks
Huang Shijie

> +		return set_geometry_by_ecc_info(this);
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }

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