Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: xway: No hardcoded ECC engine, use device tree setting

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

Kestrel seventyfour <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com> wrote on Thu, 19 Aug
2021 09:21:42 +0200:

> Hi Miquèl
> 
> Am Mo., 16. Aug. 2021 um 09:31 Uhr schrieb Miquel Raynal
> <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>:
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Daniel Kestrel <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com> wrote on Sun, 8 Aug 2021
> > 09:26:43 +0200:
> >  
> > > Some devices use Micron NAND chips, which use on-die ECC. The hardcoded
> > > setting of NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_SOFT makes them unusable, because the
> > > software ECC on top of the hardware ECC produces errors for every read
> > > and write access, not to mention that booting does not work, because
> > > the boot loader uses the correct ECC when trying to load the kernel
> > > and stops loading on severe ECC errors.
> > > This patch requires the devices that currently work with the hard coded
> > > setting to set the nand-ecc-mode property to soft in their device
> > > tree.
> > >  
> >
> > Please add a Fixes: and Cc: stable tags, you will also need to send to
> > stable@vger.kernel.org a different version of the patch for the kernel
> > 5.4 IIUC.
> >  
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kestrel <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com>
> > > Tested-by: Aleksander Jan Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl> # tested on BT Home Hub 5A
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c | 2 --
> > >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c
> > > index 26751976e502..0a4b0aa7dd4c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c
> > > @@ -148,8 +148,6 @@ static void xway_write_buf(struct nand_chip *chip, const u_char *buf, int len)
> > >
> > >  static int xway_attach_chip(struct nand_chip *chip)
> > >  {
> > > -     chip->ecc.engine_type = NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_SOFT;
> > > -
> > >       if (chip->ecc.algo == NAND_ECC_ALGO_UNKNOWN)
> > >               chip->ecc.algo = NAND_ECC_ALGO_HAMMING;  
> >
> > You also need to only set the Hamming algorithm when engine_type is
> > TYPE_SOFT.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Miquèl  
> 
> I am really struggling with what to do. For one of the affected
> devices, they created two device
> trees, one for Micron and one for all others. Which obviously had no
> effect due to the
> hardcoded settings, which led me to Patch 2 and I thought, so be it.
> But the process to figure
> out if ones device has Micron Chips is essentially flashing an image
> and if it does not work,
> use the stock OEM recovery and try the other image.
> However, since Micron is the only chip that is treated differently, I wonder
> if your first proposal, even though it is hacky, is the better
> approach to solve the issue
> for the Micron devices not booting and throwing ECC errors. What do you think?
> Follow up first patch or this one?

I am not sure we understood each other, your patch is fine, but you
need to do something like:

static int xway_attach_chip(struct nand_chip *chip)
{
    if (chip->ecc.engine_type = NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_SOFT &&
        chip->ecc.algo == NAND_ECC_ALGO_UNKNOWN)
         chip->ecc.algo = NAND_ECC_ALGO_HAMMING;

In the DT you should not force any ECC engine (drop the nand-ecc-xxx
properties) and let the core handle it. It will probably choose the
most suitable engines for you.

Thanks,
Miquèl