linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem

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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:42:21 +0100
From:   Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com>
To:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
CC:     Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>, <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@...zinger.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, Han Xu <han.xu@....com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem

On 05.02.19 16:22, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 11:00 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de> wrote on Tue, 29 Jan 2019
>> 16:37:00 +0100:
>>
>>> From: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com>
>>>
>>> Disable BCH soft reset according to MX23 erratum #2847 ("BCH soft
>>> reset may cause bus master lock up") for MX28 too. It has the same
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Observed problem: once per 100,000+ MX28 reboots NAND read failed on
>>> DMA timeout errors:
>>> [    1.770823] UBI: attaching mtd3 to ubi0
>>> [    2.768088] gpmi_nand: DMA timeout, last DMA :1
>>> [    3.958087] gpmi_nand: BCH timeout, last DMA :1
>>> [    4.156033] gpmi_nand: Error in ECC-based read: -110
>>> [    4.161136] UBI warning: ubi_io_read: error -110 while reading 64
>>> bytes from PEB 0:0, read only 0 bytes, retry
>>> [    4.171283] step 1 error
>>> [    4.173846] gpmi_nand: Chip: 0, Error -1
>>>
>>> Without BCH soft reset we successfully executed 1,000,000 MX28 reboots.
>>>
>>> I have a quote from NXP regarding this problem, from July 18th 2016:
>>>
>>> "As the i.MX23 and i.MX28 are of the same generation, they share many
>>> characteristics. Unfortunately, also the erratas may be shared.
>>> In case of the documented erratas and the workarounds, you can also
>>> apply the workaround solution of one device on the other one. This have
>>> been reported, but I’m afraid that there are not an estimated date for
>>> updating the Errata documents.
>>> Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences this may cause."
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@...zinger.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com>
> 
> Does this also need a Fixes tag so that it can be backported to stable?
> 

Actually I rebased this from our 4.14 stable tree, so yes, I just forgot 
about that and I guess it would be

Fixes: 6f2a6a52560a ("mtd: nand: gpmi: reset BCH earlier, too, to avoid 
NAND startup problems")

Do you want me to add this and CC stable?

thanks
                                   martin

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