Re: [RESEND RESEND RESEND PATCH v2] mtd: nand_bbt: scan for next free bbt block if writing bbt fails

From: Brian Norris
Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 - 14:34:12 EST


+ Bean, who is looking at refactoring this driver. Perhaps he can review
this.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:49:26PM -0500, Xander Huff wrote:
> From: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton@xxxxxx>
>
> If erasing or writing the BBT fails, we should mark the current BBT
> block as bad and use the BBT descriptor to scan for the next available
> unused block in the BBT. We should only return a failure if there isn't
> any space left.
>
> Based on original code implemented by Jeff Westfahl
> <jeff.westfahl@xxxxxx>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jaeden Amero <jaeden.amero@xxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@xxxxxx>
> ---
> This v2 patch is in reply to comments from Brian Norris on 7/22/13. See
> the following links for context:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-July/047596.html
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/244324/

Wow, a blast from the past...

> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 4 ++++
> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 7 +++++++
> 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index ceb68ca..48299dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -2761,6 +2761,7 @@ int nand_erase_nand(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr,
> pr_debug("%s: device is write protected!\n",
> __func__);
> instr->state = MTD_ERASE_FAILED;
> + instr->priv = NAND_ERASE_WRITE_PROTECTED;

I'm pretty sure this is an illegal overloading of the 'priv' field.
Notice how ioctl(MEMERASE64) uses this field in mtdchard.c. So I suspect
you've broken char access to /dev/mtdX. Try 'flash_erase' from
mtd-utils, for instance.

> goto erase_exit;
> }
>
> @@ -2776,6 +2777,7 @@ int nand_erase_nand(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr,
> pr_warn("%s: attempt to erase a bad block at page 0x%08x\n",
> __func__, page);
> instr->state = MTD_ERASE_FAILED;
> + instr->priv = NAND_ERASE_BAD_BLOCK;
> goto erase_exit;
> }
>
> @@ -2802,6 +2804,7 @@ int nand_erase_nand(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr,
> pr_debug("%s: failed erase, page 0x%08x\n",
> __func__, page);
> instr->state = MTD_ERASE_FAILED;
> + instr->priv = NAND_ERASE_BLOCK_ERASE_FAILED;
> instr->fail_addr =
> ((loff_t)page << chip->page_shift);
> goto erase_exit;
> @@ -2819,6 +2822,7 @@ int nand_erase_nand(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *instr,
> }
> }
> instr->state = MTD_ERASE_DONE;
> + instr->priv = NAND_ERASE_OK;
>
> erase_exit:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> index 63a1a36..09f9e62 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c
> @@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ static int write_bbt(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf,
> page = td->pages[chip];
> goto write;
> }
> +next:
>
> /*
> * Automatic placement of the bad block table. Search direction
> @@ -787,13 +788,42 @@ static int write_bbt(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf,
> einfo.addr = to;
> einfo.len = 1 << this->bbt_erase_shift;
> res = nand_erase_nand(mtd, &einfo, 1);
> - if (res < 0)
> + if (res == -EIO && einfo.state == MTD_ERASE_FAILED
> + && einfo.priv == NAND_ERASE_BLOCK_ERASE_FAILED) {

Do you actually need that last condition? What's wrong with the first
two?

> + /* This block is bad. Mark it as such and see if
> + * there's another block available in the BBT area. */
> + int block = page >>
> + (this->bbt_erase_shift - this->page_shift);
> + pr_info("nand_bbt: failed to erase block %d when writing BBT\n",
> + block);
> + bbt_mark_entry(this, block, BBT_BLOCK_WORN);
> +
> + res = this->block_markbad(mtd, block);
> + if (res)
> + pr_warn("nand_bbt: error %d while marking block %d bad\n",
> + res, block);
> + goto next;
> + } else if (res < 0)
> goto outerr;
>
> res = scan_write_bbt(mtd, to, len, buf,
> td->options & NAND_BBT_NO_OOB ? NULL :
> &buf[len]);
> - if (res < 0)
> + if (res == -EIO) {
> + /* This block is bad. Mark it as such and see if
> + * there's another block available in the BBT area. */
> + int block = page >>
> + (this->bbt_erase_shift - this->page_shift);
> + pr_info("nand_bbt: failed to erase block %d when writing BBT\n",
> + block);
> + bbt_mark_entry(this, block, BBT_BLOCK_WORN);
> +
> + res = this->block_markbad(mtd, block);
> + if (res)
> + pr_warn("nand_bbt: error %d while marking block %d bad\n",
> + res, block);
> + goto next;
> + } else if (res < 0)
> goto outerr;
>
> pr_info("Bad block table written to 0x%012llx, version 0x%02X\n",
> diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> index 272f429..86e11f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> @@ -1030,4 +1030,11 @@ struct nand_sdr_timings {
>
> /* get timing characteristics from ONFI timing mode. */
> const struct nand_sdr_timings *onfi_async_timing_mode_to_sdr_timings(int mode);
> +
> +/* reasons for erase failures */
> +#define NAND_ERASE_OK 0
> +#define NAND_ERASE_WRITE_PROTECTED 1
> +#define NAND_ERASE_BAD_BLOCK 2
> +#define NAND_ERASE_BLOCK_ERASE_FAILED 3

Why exactly do you need these statuses? I thought the existing error
codes were sufficient..

> +
> #endif /* __LINUX_MTD_NAND_H */

Brian
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