Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] mtd: nand: raw: qcom_nandc: add support for unprotected spare data pages

[Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:58:02PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 02:06:11AM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > IPQ8064 nand have special pages where a different layout scheme is used.
> > These special page are used by boot partition and on reading them
> > lots of warning are reported about wrong ECC data and if written to
> > results in broken data and not bootable device.
> > 
> > The layout scheme used by these special page consist in using 512 bytes
> > as the codeword size (even for the last codeword) while writing to CFG0
> > register. This forces the NAND controller to unprotect the 4 bytes of
> > spare data.
> > 
> > Since the kernel is unaware of this different layout for these special
> > page, it does try to protect the spare data too during read/write and
> > warn about CRC errors.
> > 
> > Add support for this by permitting the user to declare these special
> > pages in dts by declaring offset and size of the partition. The driver
> > internally will convert these value to nand pages.
> > 
> > On user read/write the page is checked and if it's a boot page the
> > correct layout is used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
> 
> Just a few nitpicks below. With those fixed,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
>

Sure! Thanks a lot for the various review. Will send v8 that should be
the final version.

> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 198 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
> > index f2990d721733..0dbfe32888ff 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static bool qcom_nandc_is_boot_partition(struct qcom_nand_host *host, int page)
> > +{
> > +	struct qcom_nand_boot_partition *boot_partition;
> > +	u32 start, end;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Since the frequent access will be to the non-boot partitions like rootfs,
> > +	 * optimize the page check by:
> > +
> 
> Missing "*"
> 
> > +	 * 1. Checking if the page lies after the last boot partition.
> > +	 * 2. Checking from the boot partition end.
> > +	 */
> > +
> > +	/* First check the last boot partition */
> > +	boot_partition = &host->boot_partitions[host->nr_boot_partitions - 1];
> > +	start = boot_partition->page_offset;
> > +	end = start + boot_partition->page_size;
> > +
> > +	/* Page is after the last boot partition end. This is NOT a boot partition */
> > +	if (page > end)
> > +		return false;
> > +
> > +	/* Actually check if it's a boot partition */
> > +	if (page < end && page >= start)
> > +		return true;
> > +
> > +	/* Check the other boot partition starting from the second-last partition */
> 
> s/boot partition/boot partitions
> 
> > +	for (i = host->nr_boot_partitions - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
> > +		boot_partition = &host->boot_partitions[i];
> > +		start = boot_partition->page_offset;
> > +		end = start + boot_partition->page_size;
> > +
> > +		if (page < end && page >= start)
> > +			return true;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return false;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void
> > +qcom_nandc_codeword_fixup(struct qcom_nand_host *host, int page)
> 
> As like other functions, please align the function on the same line
> 
> > +{
> > +	bool codeword_fixup = qcom_nandc_is_boot_partition(host, page);
> > +
> > +	/* Skip conf write if we are already in the correct mode */
> > +	if (codeword_fixup == host->codeword_fixup)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	host->codeword_fixup = codeword_fixup;
> > +
> > +	host->cw_data = codeword_fixup ? 512 : 516;
> > +	host->spare_bytes = host->cw_size - host->ecc_bytes_hw -
> > +			    host->bbm_size - host->cw_data;
> > +
> > +	host->cfg0 &= ~(SPARE_SIZE_BYTES_MASK | UD_SIZE_BYTES_MASK);
> > +	host->cfg0 |= host->spare_bytes << SPARE_SIZE_BYTES |
> > +		      host->cw_data << UD_SIZE_BYTES;
> > +
> > +	host->ecc_bch_cfg &= ~ECC_NUM_DATA_BYTES_MASK;
> > +	host->ecc_bch_cfg |= host->cw_data << ECC_NUM_DATA_BYTES;
> > +	host->ecc_buf_cfg = (host->cw_data - 1) << NUM_STEPS;
> > +}
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static int qcom_nand_host_parse_boot_partitions(struct qcom_nand_controller *nandc,
> > +						struct qcom_nand_host *host,
> > +						struct device_node *dn)
> > +{
> > +	struct nand_chip *chip = &host->chip;
> > +	struct mtd_info *mtd = nand_to_mtd(chip);
> > +	struct qcom_nand_boot_partition *boot_partition;
> > +	struct device *dev = nandc->dev;
> > +	int partitions_count, i, j, ret;
> > +
> > +	if (!of_find_property(dn, "qcom,boot-partitions", NULL))
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	partitions_count = of_property_count_u32_elems(dn, "qcom,boot-partitions");
> > +	if (partitions_count <= 0) {
> > +		dev_err(dev, "Error parsing boot partition\n");
> > +		if (partitions_count == 0)
> > +			return -EINVAL;
> > +		else
> > +			return partitions_count;
> 
> 		return partitions_count ? partitions_count : -EINVAL;
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
> -- 
> மணிவண்ணன் சதாசிவம்

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	Ansuel

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