Hi Boris,
On 30 October 2017 at 14:04, Boris Brezillon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi PrasannaKumar,
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:13:51 +0530
> PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]>
>>
>> Avoid sending unnecessary READ commands to the chip.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> This patch is taken from git://projects.qi-hardware.com/qi-kernel.git
>> branch jz-3.16. From [1] and [2] it can be seen that the patch author
>> thinks this can be sent upstream but it never happened so far. This
>> patch is used in OpenWRT as seen from [3].
>
> Sounds reasonable, but it's likely to conflict with something I'd like
> to queue for 4.16 [1]. I'll rebase this patch on nand/next once the
> ->exec_op() series is merged. Don't hesitate to ping me if I forget.
>
> Regards,
>
> Boris
>
> [1]http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/?series=8923
>
>>
>> I have only compile tested the patch.
>>
>> 1. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04635.html
>> 2. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04639.html
>> 3. https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/xburst/patches-3.18/002-NAND-Optimize-NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST-read.patch;h=046da51912de3cd4444779df5de13d2c1999719a;hb=c03d4317a6bc891cb4a5e89cbdd77f37c23aff86
>>
>> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
>> index 12edaae..4bf3bdb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
>> @@ -1680,9 +1680,15 @@ static int nand_read_page_hwecc_oob_first(struct mtd_info *mtd,
>> unsigned int max_bitflips = 0;
>>
>> /* Read the OOB area first */
>> - chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READOOB, 0, page);
>> - chip->read_buf(mtd, chip->oob_poi, mtd->oobsize);
>> - chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READ0, 0, page);
>> + if (mtd->writesize > 512) {
>> + chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READ0, mtd->writesize, page);
>> + chip->read_buf(mtd, chip->oob_poi, mtd->oobsize);
>> + chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_RNDOUT, 0, -1);
>> + } else {
>> + chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READOOB, 0, page);
>> + chip->read_buf(mtd, chip->oob_poi, mtd->oobsize);
>> + chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READ0, 0, page);
>> + }
>>
>> ret = mtd_ooblayout_get_eccbytes(mtd, ecc_code, chip->oob_poi, 0,
>> chip->ecc.total);
>> @@ -1902,8 +1908,10 @@ static int nand_do_read_ops(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from,
>> __func__, buf);
>>
>> read_retry:
>> - if (nand_standard_page_accessors(&chip->ecc))
>> + if (nand_standard_page_accessors(&chip->ecc) &&
>> + chip->ecc.mode != NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST) {
>> chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READ0, 0x00, page);
>> + }
>>
>> /*
>> * Now read the page into the buffer. Absent an error,
>
Can you please revisit this?
Thanks,
PrasannaKumar