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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:59:54 +0100 From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com> To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com> Cc: Hou Zhiqiang <B48286@...escale.com>, Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@...el.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Han Xu <han.xu@...escale.com>, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>, Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>, Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>, Bean Huo 霍斌斌, <beanhuo@...ron.com>, MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] mtd: spi-nor: simplify write loop On 20 November 2015 at 00:18, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com> wrote: > Hi Michal, > > Sorry this has sat so long... > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 09:23:08AM -0000, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> The spi-nor write loop assumes that what is passed to the hardware >> driver write() is what gets written. >> >> When write() writes less than page size at once data is dropped on the >> floor. Check the amount of data writen. > > Have you seen write() return less than the page size? I know you've > struggled with a SPI driver that can't do "very" (for some definition of > very) long transfers, due to unknown bugs, but I thought that "very" was > much larger than the page size. Not in the case of a driver that can transfer 63 bytes at a time. It because the DMA engine needed for normal operation was not merged yet, though. > >> This also means that write can start mid-page any time so there is >> no special case for first page. > > I think we'd have some problems if we start seeing hardware that can't > write ~256 bytes at a time. If nothing else, this can be a problem > because some SPI NOR flash are known to have inferior reliability if you > regularly write in small chunks. I believe this is because they actually > use some kind of internal ECC. > > So, if you're just guarding against a theoretical behavior, perhaps it's > best if this is done with some kind of assertion, as I'd rather not > encourage non-aligned writes if possible. I notice you used BUG_ON() in > another patch, but I'd suggest maybe something less harsh, like WARN() > or WARN_ONCE(). I agree that a warning is in order in the case when whole page cannot be written in one go. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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