Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: marvell: Use correct logic for nand-keep-config

From: Chris Packham
Date: Mon Oct 03 2022 - 17:48:01 EST


Hi All,

On 27/09/22 15:47, Chris Packham wrote:
> From: Tony O'Brien <tony.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Originally the absence of the marvell,nand-keep-config property caused
> the setup_data_interface function to be provided. However when
> setup_data_interface was moved into nand_controller_ops the logic was
> unintentionally inverted. Update the logic so that only if the
> marvell,nand-keep-config property is present the bootloader NAND config
> kept.
>
> Fixes: 7a08dbaedd36 ("mtd: rawnand: Move ->setup_data_interface() to nand_controller_ops")
> Signed-off-by: Tony O'Brien <tony.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just following up on this. I know things have probably been busy with
the 6.0 release but it's been a week so I figured I'd give this a bump.

> ---
>
> Notes:
> I think this is a bug that's been lurking for 4 years or so. I'm not
> sure that's particularly long in the life of an embedded device but it
> does make me wonder if there have been other bug reports about it.
>
> We noticed this because we had a bootloader that used maxed out NAND
> timings which made the time it took the kernel to do anything on the
> file system longer than we expected.
>
> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> index 2455a581fd70..b248c5f657d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/marvell_nand.c
> @@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ static int marvell_nand_chip_init(struct device *dev, struct marvell_nfc *nfc,
> chip->controller = &nfc->controller;
> nand_set_flash_node(chip, np);
>
> - if (!of_property_read_bool(np, "marvell,nand-keep-config"))
> + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "marvell,nand-keep-config"))
> chip->options |= NAND_KEEP_TIMINGS;
>
> mtd = nand_to_mtd(chip);