This fixes subpage writes when using 4-bit HW ECC. There has been numerous reports about ECC errors with devices using this driver for a while. Also the 4-bit ECC has been reported as broken with subpages in [1] and with 16 bits NANDs in the driver and in mach* board files both in mainline and in the vendor BSPs.
What I saw with 4-bit ECC on a 16bits NAND (on an LCDK) which got me to try reinitializing the ECC engine: - R/W on whole pages properly generates/checks RS code - try writing the 1st subpage only of a blank page, the subpage is well written and the RS code properly generated, re-reading the same page the HW detects some ECC error, reading the same page again no ECC error is detected Note that the ECC engine is already reinitialized in the 1-bit case. Tested on my LCDK with UBI+UBIFS using subpages. This could potentially get rid of the issue workarounded in [1]. [1] 28c015a9daab ("mtd: davinci-nand: disable subpage write for keystone-nand") Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <kbel...@baylibre.com> --- drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c index cc07ba0..27fa8b8 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ static void nand_davinci_hwctl_4bit(struct mtd_info *mtd, int mode) unsigned long flags; u32 val; + /* Reset ECC hardware */ + davinci_nand_readl(info, NAND_4BIT_ECC1_OFFSET); + spin_lock_irqsave(&davinci_nand_lock, flags); /* Start 4-bit ECC calculation for read/write */ -- 2.9.2