Re: [PATCH v1] mtd: rawnand: meson: fix bitmask for length in command word

[Arseniy Krasnov]

On 28.03.2023 19:50, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Arseniy,
> 
> avkrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:56:19 +0300:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> @Miquel Raynal, what is the status of this patch?
> 
> Please, it's been 6 days, there is also a maintainer (Liang) in
> between, I'm fine with the patch but it was too late to take it as
> part of my previous fixes PR. As said earlier today on the mailing list
> to Christophe I will make another fixes PR next week (I'll wait for the
> current one to be part of the next -rc tag).

Thanks for details, sure no problem for PR on the next week! Yes, Liang is a
maintainer, but i didn't see any feedbacks from him on my previous fixes for
this driver.

> 
> By the way any reason not to have Cc'ed stable?

Sorry, what do You mean? I've included linux-mtd mailing lists, there is
one more list for mtd reviews? I will appreciate if You can point me

Thanks, Arseniy

> 
>>
>> Thanks, Arseniy
>>
>> On 23.03.2023 10:57, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22.03.2023 23:10, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:  
>>>> Hello Arseniy,
>>>>
>>>> thank you for submitting this fix!  
>>> Thanks!  
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:45 PM Arseniy Krasnov
>>>> <avkrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
>>>>>
>>>>> Valid mask is 0x3FFF, without this patch the following problems were
>>>>> found:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) [    0.938914] Could not find a valid ONFI parameter page, trying
>>>>>                   bit-wise majority to recover it
>>>>>    [    0.947384] ONFI parameter recovery failed, aborting
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Read with disabled ECC mode was broken.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 8fae856c5350 ("mtd: rawnand: meson: add support for Amlogic NAND flash controller")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
>>>> This matches what I can see in the old vendor driver, so:  
>>> Moreover it was clear that mask of 0x3f is too small for length of data in
>>> bytes, for example for 2048 + OOB size.  
>>>> Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> [...]  
>>>>> -               cmd = (len & GENMASK(5, 0)) | scrambler | DMA_DIR(dir);
>>>>> +               cmd = (len & GENMASK(13, 0)) | scrambler | DMA_DIR(dir);  
>>>> My understanding of the vendor driver is that this "len" is only used
>>>> for "raw" access (my own words: any access that doesn't use the HW ECC
>>>> engine).  
>>> Exactly, 'len' is only for raw access.  
>>>> As a future improvement (no need to update re-send this patch) it
>>>> would be great to have a #define with a meaningful name for
>>>> "GENMASK(13, 0)" (maybe something like NFC_CMD_RAW_LENGTH) as it's
>>>> used in multiple places now  
>>> Ack
>>>
>>> Thanks, Arseniy  
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Martin  
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl