RE: [LINUX PATCH v12 3/3] mtd: rawnand: arasan: Add support for Arasan NAND Flash Controller

[Naga Sureshkumar Relli]

Hi Miquel,

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> From: Miquel Raynal [mailto:miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [LINUX PATCH v12 3/3] mtd: rawnand: arasan: Add support for Arasan
> NAND Flash Controller
> 
> Hi Naga,
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Inserted biterror @ 48/7
> > Successfully corrected 25 bit errors per subpage Inserted biterror @
> > 50/7 ECC failure, invalid data despite read success
> > root@xilinx-zc1751-dc2-2018_1:~#
> >
> > But even in this case also, driver is saying ECC failure but read success.
> > That means controller is able to detect errors on read page up to 24 bit only.
> > After that there is no way to say to the upper layers that the page is bad because of the
> limitation in the controller.
> 
> This is more than a "limitation", the design is broken. I am not sure how to support such
> controller, and I am not sure if we even want to.

The number of errors that are correctable is limited by a parameter 't'(total number of errors),
If there is a condition that the number of errors greater than 't', then the controller won't be able to detect that.
I guess this concept is same for other controllers as well.
In Arasan it is limited to 24-bit.

Even, in case of Hamming, it is 1-bit error correction and 2-bit error detection.
What will happen if there are multiple errors(greater than 2-bit)?

Thanks,
Naga Sureshkumar Relli
> 
> > Could you please suggest any alternative to report the errors in that case?
> 
> Shall we support the controller without the hw ECC engine? Boris, any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> MiquÃl