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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2009-07-06 08:57:53 +0300
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2009-07-07 11:37:45 +0300
commitebf53f421308c2f59c9bcbad4c5c297a0d00199a (patch)
tree1ec5084484bcaea259a210147cb278af4286f7e6 /drivers/mtd
parentfe96efc1a3c049f0a1bcd9b65e0faeb751ce5ec6 (diff)
UBI: fix NOR flash recovery
This commit fixes NOR flash recovery issues observed with Spansion S29GL512N NOR. When NOR erases, it first fills PEBs with zeroes, then sets all bytes to 0xFF. Filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. And when power is cut, this results in PEBs containing correct EC and VID headers but corrupted with zeros at the end. This confuses UBI and it mistakinly accepts these PEBs and associate them with LEBs. Fis this issue by zeroing EC and VID magics before erasing PEBs, to make UBI later refuse zem. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c5
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c58
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h4
3 files changed, 64 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index db0b9cb64c6..e1f7d0a78b9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -657,6 +657,11 @@ static int io_init(struct ubi_device *ubi)
if (ubi->mtd->block_isbad && ubi->mtd->block_markbad)
ubi->bad_allowed = 1;
+ if (ubi->mtd->type == MTD_NORFLASH) {
+ ubi_assert(ubi->mtd->writesize == 1);
+ ubi->nor_flash = 1;
+ }
+
ubi->min_io_size = ubi->mtd->writesize;
ubi->hdrs_min_io_size = ubi->mtd->writesize >> ubi->mtd->subpage_sft;
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index 1ea14218de0..c3bd2e34c64 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ int ubi_io_write(struct ubi_device *ubi, const void *buf, int pnum, int offset,
addr = (loff_t)pnum * ubi->peb_size + offset;
err = ubi->mtd->write(ubi->mtd, addr, len, &written, buf);
if (err) {
- ubi_err("error %d while writing %d bytes to PEB %d:%d, written"
- " %zd bytes", err, len, pnum, offset, written);
+ ubi_err("error %d while writing %d bytes to PEB %d:%d, written "
+ "%zd bytes", err, len, pnum, offset, written);
ubi_dbg_dump_stack();
} else
ubi_assert(written == len);
@@ -454,6 +454,54 @@ out:
}
/**
+ * nor_erase_prepare - prepare a NOR flash PEB for erasure.
+ * @ubi: UBI device description object
+ * @pnum: physical eraseblock number to prepare
+ *
+ * NOR flash, or at least some of them, have peculiar embedded PEB erasure
+ * algorithm: the PEB is first filled with zeroes, then it is erased. And
+ * filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. This was observed with
+ * Spansion S29GL512N NOR flash.
+ *
+ * This means that in case of a power cut we may end up with intact data at the
+ * beginning of the PEB, and all zeroes at the end of PEB. In other words, the
+ * EC and VID headers are OK, but a large chunk of data at the end of PEB is
+ * zeroed. This makes UBI mistakenly treat this PEB as used and associate it
+ * with an LEB, which leads to subsequent failures (e.g., UBIFS fails).
+ *
+ * This function is called before erasing NOR PEBs and it zeroes out EC and VID
+ * magic numbers in order to invalidate them and prevent the failures. Returns
+ * zero in case of success and a negative error code in case of failure.
+ */
+static int nor_erase_prepare(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum)
+{
+ int err;
+ size_t written;
+ loff_t addr;
+ uint32_t data = 0;
+
+ addr = (loff_t)pnum * ubi->peb_size;
+ err = ubi->mtd->write(ubi->mtd, addr, 4, &written, &data);
+ if (err) {
+ ubi_err("error %d while writing 4 bytes to PEB %d:0, written "
+ "%zd bytes", err, pnum, 0, written);
+ ubi_dbg_dump_stack();
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ addr += ubi->vid_hdr_aloffset;
+ err = ubi->mtd->write(ubi->mtd, addr, 4, &written, &data);
+ if (err) {
+ ubi_err("error %d while writing 4 bytes to PEB %d:%d, written "
+ "%zd bytes", err, pnum, ubi->vid_hdr_aloffset, written);
+ ubi_dbg_dump_stack();
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
* ubi_io_sync_erase - synchronously erase a physical eraseblock.
* @ubi: UBI device description object
* @pnum: physical eraseblock number to erase
@@ -484,6 +532,12 @@ int ubi_io_sync_erase(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum, int torture)
return -EROFS;
}
+ if (ubi->nor_flash) {
+ err = nor_erase_prepare(ubi, pnum);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
if (torture) {
ret = torture_peb(ubi, pnum);
if (ret < 0)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
index 64604e8809e..6a5fe963378 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ubi_wl_entry;
* @vid_hdr_shift: contains @vid_hdr_offset - @vid_hdr_aloffset
* @bad_allowed: whether the MTD device admits of bad physical eraseblocks or
* not
+ * @nor_flash: non-zero if working on top of NOR flash
* @mtd: MTD device descriptor
*
* @peb_buf1: a buffer of PEB size used for different purposes
@@ -454,7 +455,8 @@ struct ubi_device {
int vid_hdr_offset;
int vid_hdr_aloffset;
int vid_hdr_shift;
- int bad_allowed;
+ unsigned int bad_allowed:1;
+ unsigned int nor_flash:1;
struct mtd_info *mtd;
void *peb_buf1;