Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Martin,

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:52:51 +0100
Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 Iâm afraid that there are not an estimated date for
> updating the Errata documents.
> Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences this may cause."
> 
> Fixes: 6f2a6a52560a ("mtd: nand: gpmi: reset BCH earlier, too, to avoid
> NAND startup problems")

Please make sure this Fixes line is not wrapped next time.

Thanks,

Boris