[PATCH 4.7 004/141] mtd: nand: davinci: Reinitialize the HW ECC engine in 4bit hwctl

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 06 2016 - 04:38:02 EST


4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f6d7c1b5598b6407c3f1da795dd54acf99c1990c upstream.

This fixes subpage writes when using 4-bit HW ECC.

There has been numerous reports about ECC errors with devices using this
driver for a while. Also the 4-bit ECC has been reported as broken with
subpages in [1] and with 16 bits NANDs in the driver and in mach* board
files both in mainline and in the vendor BSPs.

What I saw with 4-bit ECC on a 16bits NAND (on an LCDK) which got me to
try reinitializing the ECC engine:
- R/W on whole pages properly generates/checks RS code
- try writing the 1st subpage only of a blank page, the subpage is well
written and the RS code properly generated, re-reading the same page
the HW detects some ECC error, reading the same page again no ECC
error is detected

Note that the ECC engine is already reinitialized in the 1-bit case.

Tested on my LCDK with UBI+UBIFS using subpages.
This could potentially get rid of the issue workarounded in [1].

[1] 28c015a9daab ("mtd: davinci-nand: disable subpage write for keystone-nand")

Fixes: 6a4123e581b3 ("mtd: nand: davinci_nand, 4-bit ECC for smallpage")
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <kbeldan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ static void nand_davinci_hwctl_4bit(stru
unsigned long flags;
u32 val;

+ /* Reset ECC hardware */
+ davinci_nand_readl(info, NAND_4BIT_ECC1_OFFSET);
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&davinci_nand_lock, flags);

/* Start 4-bit ECC calculation for read/write */