Re: [PATCH v4 05/16] mtd: spi-nor: default to address width of 3 for configurable widths

[Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>]

Hi Yicong,

On 26/04/20 11:53AM, Yicong Yang wrote:
> On 2020/4/25 2:43, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > JESD216D.01 says that when the address width can be 3 or 4, it defaults
> > to 3 and enters 4-byte mode when given the appropriate command. So, when
> > we see a configurable width, default to 3 and let flash that default to
> > 4 change it in a post-bfpt fixup.
> >
> > This fixes SMPT parsing for flashes with configurable address width. If
> > the SMPT descriptor advertises variable address width, we use
> > nor->addr_width as the address width. But since it was not set to any
> > value from the SFDP table, the read command uses an address width of 0,
> > resulting in an incorrect read being issued.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> > index f917631c8110..5cecc4ba2141 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sfdp.c
> > @@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ static int spi_nor_parse_bfpt(struct spi_nor *nor,
> >  	/* Number of address bytes. */
> >  	switch (bfpt.dwords[BFPT_DWORD(1)] & BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_MASK) {
> >  	case BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_3_ONLY:
> > +	case BFPT_DWORD1_ADDRESS_BYTES_3_OR_4:
> >  		nor->addr_width = 3;
> >  		break;
> 
> Should we also assign address width to 3 in default condition. At least we should not
> leave it uninitialized here.

The default condition would be taken when this field is 3. The value 3 
is reserved, and so no current device should use this value. That said, 
I don't see any downsides of doing so. If the value 3 means something 
else in later revisions of the standard, this code would need to change 
anyway. If not, we would use a relatively sane default for devices with 
a faulty BFPT.

I haven't received any comments on my series so far. If end up having to
re-roll it, I will add this change. Otherwise, I'm not sure if it is a 
good idea to re-roll a 16-patch series for a one liner that isn't fixing 
some major bug. In that case, maybe you can send an independent patch 
that does this after mine is merged?

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav