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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, vigneshr@ti.com, js07.lee@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mtd: spi-nor: Fix gap in SR block protection locking
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:54:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2c8166871eda0ad5f8ed97cb6f69911@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5899969.zVFlrMANan@192.168.0.120>

Am 2020-03-23 20:20, schrieb Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com:
> On Monday, March 23, 2020 8:27:13 PM EET Michael Walle wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 2020-03-23 10:24, schrieb Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com:
>> > From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
>> >
>> > Fix the gap for the SR block protection, the BP bits were set with
>> > a +1 value than actually needed. This patch does not change the
>> > behavior of the locking operations, just fixes the protected areas.
>> 
>> So instead of rounding up, it does round down now?
> 
> No. Why do you say that it rounds up? The behavior is not changed, the 
> patch
> merely fix the protected area, which was wrong before. The round down 
> is
> present before this patch.

TBH I don't understand what this patch should do. Could you give an 
example?

>> 
>> > On a 16Mbit flash with 64KByte erase sector, the following changed
>> > for the lock operation:

16MBit is a bad example, because it is broken anyway, isn't it? We use a
32Mbit flash where 2MB are locked and the second 2MB are unlocked. Eg. a
50/50 split. I haven't seen any issued. Shouldn't it be then completely
locked according this the following example?

>> >
>> > Number of blocks | BP2:0 before | BP2:0 now |
>> >
>> >                1 | 010b         | 001b      |
>> >                2 | 110b         | 010b      |
>> >                3 | 110b         | 010b      |
>> >                4 | 100b         | 011b      |
>> >                5 | 100b         | 011b      |
>> >                6 | 100b         | 011b      |
>> >                7 | 100b         | 011b      |
>> >                8 | 101b         | 100b      |
>> >                9 | 101b         | 100b      |
>> >
>> >              ... | ...          | ...       |
>> >
>> > For the lock operation, if one requests to lock an area that is not
>> > matching the upper boundary of a BP protected area, we round down
>> > the total length and lock less than the user requested, in order to
>> > not lock more than the user actually requested.
>> 
>> I don't know if that is really what a user really want. Because you'd
>> end up with regions which the user believes are locked but are not.
> 
> True. I'm thinking of how we can improve this, but it's not in the 
> scope of
> this patch set, because the behavior is not changed.

ok, agreed,

> 
>> IMHO if you'd have to make a choice I'd prefer to have the remainder
>> locked. Not the other way around. Esp. since the user explicitly
>> express to have a region locked.
>> 
> 
> We can still talk about this. Please notice that the formula that we 
> want to
> introduce does the same thing as described in this commit message: for
> unaligned locks, it round down the length, and for unaligned unlocks it 
> rounds
> up the length.

ok

-michael

> 
> I'm waiting for a reply.
> ta

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23  9:24 [PATCH v3 0/5] mtd: spi-nor: Add SR 4bit block protection support Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] mtd: spi-nor: Fix gap in SR block protection locking Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 18:27   ` Michael Walle
2020-03-23 19:20     ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 19:54       ` Michael Walle [this message]
2020-03-23 20:26         ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 21:14           ` Michael Walle
2020-03-23 21:30             ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 21:33               ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 22:35               ` Michael Walle
2020-03-24  5:37                 ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-24  3:52   ` Jungseung Lee
2020-03-25  9:44   ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mtd: spi-nor: Set all BP bits to one when lock_len == mtd->size Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 14:08   ` Jungseung Lee
2020-03-23 18:28   ` Michael Walle
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mtd: spi-nor: Add new formula for SR block protection handling Tudor.Ambarus
     [not found]   ` <000001d600ff$063a8fd0$12afaf70$@samsung.com>
2020-03-23 13:32     ` Jungseung Lee
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mtd: spi-nor: Add SR 4bit block protection support Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 12:43   ` Jungseung Lee
2020-03-23 12:55     ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23 13:16       ` Jungseung Lee
2020-03-23 18:33   ` Michael Walle
2020-03-23 18:51     ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mtd: spi-nor: Add 4bit SR " Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23  9:46   ` Tudor.Ambarus
2020-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] mtd: spi-nor: Enable locking for n25q512ax3/n25q512a Tudor.Ambarus

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