linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: atmel: remove global SNOR_F_HAS

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Message-ID: <871da0d058ba89320615098ee26150b3@walle.cc>
Date:   Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:12:43 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Tudor.Ambarus@...rochip.com
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        miquel.raynal@...tlin.com, richard@....at, vigneshr@...com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: atmel: remove global
 SNOR_F_HAS_LOCK

Am 2020-10-01 16:06, schrieb Tudor.Ambarus@...rochip.com:
> On 10/1/20 3:28 PM, Michael Walle wrote:
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>> This is considered bad for the following reasons:
>>  (1) We only support the block protection with BPn bits for write
>>      protection. Not all Atmel parts support this.
>>  (2) Newly added flash chip will automatically inherit the "has
>>      locking" support and thus needs to explicitly tested. Better
>>      be opt-in instead of opt-out.
>>  (3) There are already supported flashes which don't support the 
>> locking
>>          scheme. So I assume this wasn't properly tested before adding 
>> that
>>          chip; which enforces my previous argument that locking 
>> support should
>>          be an opt-in.
>> 
>> Remove the global flag and add individual flags to all flashes
>> which supports BP locking. In particular the following flashes
>> don't support the BP scheme:
>>  - AT26F004
>>  - AT25SL321
>>  - AT45DB081D
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/atmel.c | 28 +++++++++-------------------
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/atmel.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/atmel.c
>> index 3f5f21a473a6..49d392c6c8bc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/atmel.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/atmel.c
>> @@ -10,37 +10,27 @@
>> 
>>  static const struct flash_info atmel_parts[] = {
>>         /* Atmel -- some are (confusingly) marketed as "DataFlash" */
>> -       { "at25fs010",  INFO(0x1f6601, 0, 32 * 1024,   4, SECT_4K) },
>> -       { "at25fs040",  INFO(0x1f6604, 0, 64 * 1024,   8, SECT_4K) },
>> +       { "at25fs010",  INFO(0x1f6601, 0, 32 * 1024,   4, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
>> +       { "at25fs040",  INFO(0x1f6604, 0, 64 * 1024,   8, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
> 
> after a quick look in the datasheets of these flashes, I suspect that
> what we have now in the SPI NOR core for SR locking does not work for
> them. They probably supported just "unlock all", clearing all the
> BP bits. Anyway, different problem.
>> 
>> -       { "at25df041a", INFO(0x1f4401, 0, 64 * 1024,   8, SECT_4K) },
>> -       { "at25df321",  INFO(0x1f4700, 0, 64 * 1024,  64, SECT_4K) },
>> -       { "at25df321a", INFO(0x1f4701, 0, 64 * 1024,  64, SECT_4K) },
>> -       { "at25df641",  INFO(0x1f4800, 0, 64 * 1024, 128, SECT_4K) },
>> +       { "at25df041a", INFO(0x1f4401, 0, 64 * 1024,   8, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
> 
> this one does not support BP locking:
> https://www.adestotech.com/wp-content/uploads/doc3668.pdf
> 
>> +       { "at25df321",  INFO(0x1f4700, 0, 64 * 1024,  64, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
> 
> neither this one:
> https://datasheet.octopart.com/AT25DF321-S3U-Atmel-datasheet-8700896.pdf
> 
>> +       { "at25df321a", INFO(0x1f4701, 0, 64 * 1024,  64, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
> 
> nor this one: https://www.adestotech.com/wp-content/uploads/doc3686.pdf
> 
>> +       { "at25df641",  INFO(0x1f4800, 0, 64 * 1024, 128, SECT_4K | 
>> SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK) },
> 
> nor this one: https://www.adestotech.com/wp-content/uploads/doc3680.pdf
> 
> I stop here.

These are all the ones which use the global unlock. I cannot just skip
the HAS_LOCK bit here, because otherwise this patch wouldn't be 
backwards
compatibe. Yes I missed that in the commit log, my bad.

-michael