Re: [PATCH v3 07/52] mtd: nand: core: use mtd_ooblayout_xxx() helpers where appropriate

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Harvey,

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:35:08 +0000
Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> On 26/02/16 00:57, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > The mtd_ooblayout_xxx() helper functions have been added to avoid direct
> > accesses to the ecclayout field, and thus ease for future reworks.
> > Use these helpers in all places where the oobfree[] and eccpos[] arrays
> > where directly accessed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >   drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bch.c  |   3 +-
> >   2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > index 91672bf..17504f2 100644
> [...]
> 
> I just pulled your nand/ecclayout branch from github and tested out your 
> latest patchset "mtd: rework ECC layout definition" on a Ci20 
> (jz4780_{nand,bch}) and noticed that my board was failing to boot.
> 
> I bisected to this patch, here is the kernel's output during boot:
> 
> 479556d ("mtd: nand: core: use mtd_ooblayout_xxx() helpers where 
> appropriate"):
> 
> [ 0.256349] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0x88
> [ 0.262860] nand: Micron MT29F64G08CBAAAWP
> [ 0.266970] nand: 8192 MiB, MLC, erase size: 2048 KiB, page size: 8192, 
> OOB size: 448
> [ 0.274856] jz4780-nand 1b000000.nand-controller: using hardware BCH 
> (strength 24, size 1024, bytes 42)
> [ 0.288982] Bad block table not found for chip 0
> [ 0.297673] Bad block table not found for chip 0
> [ 0.302328] Scanning device for bad blocks
> [ 0.320135] Bad eraseblock 90 at 0x00000b400000
> [ 0.324829] Bad eraseblock 91 at 0x00000b600000
> [ 0.931085] Bad eraseblock 4092 at 0x0001ff800000
> [ 0.935947] Bad eraseblock 4093 at 0x0001ffa00000
> [ 0.944878] nand_bbt: error while writing bad block table -34
> [ 0.950666] jz4780-nand: probe of 1b000000.nand-controller failed with 
> error -34
> [ 0.958302] UBI error: cannot open mtd 3, error -19
> [ 0.963002] UBI error: cannot open mtd 4, error -19[ 0.970419] clk: Not 
> disabling unused clocks
> [ 0.975011] UBIFS error (pid: 1): cannot open "ubi1:root", error -19VFS: 
> Cannot open root device "ubi1:root" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
> [ 0.987810] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the 
> available partitions:
> [ 0.996210] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(0,0)
> [ 1.004498] Rebooting in 10 seconds..
> 
> 6625d32 ("mtd: use mtd_ooblayout_xxx() helpers where appropriate"):
> 
> [ 0.256232] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0x88
> [ 0.262745] nand: Micron MT29F64G08CBAAAWP
> [ 0.266854] nand: 8192 MiB, MLC, erase size: 2048 KiB, page size: 8192, 
> OOB size: 448
> [ 0.274739] jz4780-nand 1b000000.nand-controller: using hardware BCH 
> (strength 24, size 1024, bytes 42)
> [ 0.285993] Bad block table found at page 1048320, version 0x01
> [ 0.294353] Bad block table found at page 1048064, version 0x01
> [ 0.301523] nand_read_bbt: bad block at 0x00000b400000
> [ 0.306677] nand_read_bbt: bad block at 0x00000b600000
> [ 0.312289] 5 ofpart partitions found on MTD device 
> 1b000000.nand-controller.1
> [ 0.319553] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "1b000000.nand-controller.1":
> [ 0.326098] 0x000000000000-0x000000800000 : "u-boot-spl"
> [ 0.331757] 0x000000800000-0x000000a00000 : "u-boot"
> [ 0.337185] 0x000000a00000-0x000000c00000 : "u-boot-env"
> [ 0.342903] 0x000000c00000-0x000004c00000 : "boot"
> [ 0.348109] 0x000004c00000-0x000200000000 : "system"
> [ 0.354284] ubi0 error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: More than 64 PEBs are needed 
> for fastmap, sorry.
> [...]
> 
> I'll look into this more later today, but wanted to run it by you in 
> case you have any thoughts.

Can you apply this patch [1], and let me know if you see the additional
trace?

Thanks,

Boris

[1]http://code.bulix.org/l2hkl1-91947

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