linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:52:34 +0200
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register
 explicitly

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:41:03 +0200
Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx> wrote:

> The v21 version of the NAND flash controller contains a Spare Area Size
> Register (SPAS) at offset 0x10. Its setting defaults to the maximum
> spare area size of 218 bytes. The size that is set in this register is
> used by the controller when it calculates the ECC bytes internally in
> hardware.
> 
> Usually, this register is updated from settings in the IIM fuses when
> the system is booting from NAND flash. For other boot media, however,
> the SPAS register remains at the default setting, which may not work for
> the particular flash chip on the board. The same goes for flash chips
> whose configuration cannot be set in the IIM fuses (e.g. chips with 2k
> sector size and 128 bytes spare area size can't be configured in the IIM
> fuses on imx25 systems).
> 
> Set the SPAS register explicitly during the preset operation. Derive the
> register value from mtd->oobsize that was detected during probe by
> decoding the flash chip's ID bytes.
> 
> While at it, rename the define for the spare area register's offset to
> NFC_V21_RSLTSPARE_AREA. The register at offset 0x10 on v1 controllers is
> different from the register on v21 controllers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: d484018 ("mtd: mxc_nand: set NFC registers after reset")

You could have kept Sacha's R-b, it's not like the patch completely
changed between v1 and v3. Also, just nitpicking, but I prefer when
Fixes and Cc-stable tags are placed before author's SoB. No need
to send a new version for that, I'll fix it when applying.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
> changes in v3
>    - add a Fixes tag pointing to the commit that introduced the
>      preset() operation
> 
> changes in v2
>    - fix the commit message
>    - use '/ 2' instead of shift operator for division
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
> index 45786e7..26cef21 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
>  #define NFC_V1_V2_CONFIG		(host->regs + 0x0a)
>  #define NFC_V1_V2_ECC_STATUS_RESULT	(host->regs + 0x0c)
>  #define NFC_V1_V2_RSLTMAIN_AREA		(host->regs + 0x0e)
> -#define NFC_V1_V2_RSLTSPARE_AREA	(host->regs + 0x10)
> +#define NFC_V21_RSLTSPARE_AREA		(host->regs + 0x10)
>  #define NFC_V1_V2_WRPROT		(host->regs + 0x12)
>  #define NFC_V1_UNLOCKSTART_BLKADDR	(host->regs + 0x14)
>  #define NFC_V1_UNLOCKEND_BLKADDR	(host->regs + 0x16)
> @@ -1274,6 +1274,9 @@ static void preset_v2(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>  	writew(config1, NFC_V1_V2_CONFIG1);
>  	/* preset operation */
>  
> +	/* spare area size in 16-bit half-words */
> +	writew(mtd->oobsize / 2, NFC_V21_RSLTSPARE_AREA);
> +
>  	/* Unlock the internal RAM Buffer */
>  	writew(0x2, NFC_V1_V2_CONFIG);
>