On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:34:37AM +0000, Bean Huo 霍斌斌 (beanhuo) wrote: > > > > By default NAND driver will choose the highest ecc strength that oob > > > > could contain, in this case, for some 8K+744 NAND flash, the ecc > > > > strength will be up to 52bit, which beyonds the i.MX6QDL BCH capability > > (40bit). > > > > > > > > > For normal working environment, if hardware BCH ECC cannot meet NAND > > > ecc requirement, We can set a minimum required ecc strength, and file > > system refresh/scrub can control bitflips under NAND ecc strength. But > > during > > reflow solder, it is very possible that NAND bitflips may increase over your > > hardware BCH capability, I don't know how this controller handle this? > > > For example, NAND require 80bit ECC, but hardware BCH ECC can only hold > > 40bit. > > > After reflow, there are some blocks that bitflips over 40bit. > > > > if the minimum ecc strength read from NAND ONFI parameter exceeds the > > BCH ECC capability, the NAND driver quits and reports unsupport NAND chip. > > Current Linux already set ECC strength according to NAND minimum required ECC > that read > from ONFI table. So if NAND minimum required ECC is 60bit, but this BCH > controller can only hold 40bit, > NAND driver quits? Why not transfer to use software BCH ECC?
SW ECC brings huge computational complexity, that's why needs HW ECC. I think user should choose the proper NAND chip according to platfrom capability rather than involve SW ECC in driver. > > > Do you mean reflow solder may change the NAND minimum required ECC > > strength, in other word, the actual minimum ECC may larger than it said in > > NAND chip SPEC? > > NAND minimum required ECC does not changed because of reflow. > I mean that if hardware BCH ECC Can not meet nand minimum required ECC, > during normal working, we can set > ECC strength according to Your hardware ECC capability. > for example in this case, NAND minimum required ECC is 60bit, but hardware > ECC capability Is 40bit, during normal working, > we can set ECC strength according to 40bit, this can work, it will definitely > increase PE cycle. > But for reflow operation, there are some blocks that their bitflips will > increase over your hardware ECC 40bit, so how do you handle this? > Or you don't meet this case? I don't quite understand, why 60bit ECC NAND can work on 40bit ECC platform, it is quite possible to get uncorrectable ECC error. Excuse me, I didn't get your point about reflow operation part, in your case, the original ECC read from ONFI table has already beyond the HW ECC, even without reflow. > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > > > Han "Allen" Xu > -- Best Regards, Han "Allen" Xu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
