Hi Ben,

oh dear, how i hate the ebu ...

i will start by testing this patch on the fritz3370 where i have been
seeing jffs2 errors.

in general i am all for merging this, i will need a few days to think
about this.

    John

On 21/01/2014 20:50, Ben Mulvihill wrote:
> Together with other contributors at the now defunct psidoc site, I
> have produced a device tree and some patches to get the BT Home Hub 2B
> (Lantiq Danube-S) working with recent trunk builds. More work is needed
> before they are ready for submitting, but before going any further, I'd
> be very grateful for some advice from John Crispin or anyone else who
> wants to chip in.
>
> The Home Hub 2B has both nand and nor flash connected to the ebu, plus 
> an ath9k pci wireless card, and the main difficulty is getting all three
> working at the same time without interfering with each other. The nand 
> driver currently in trunk works fine, provided that open-drain is 
> enabled on the ebu cs1 pin, and provided that wireless is off. However, 
> the only way to get the nor chip to work reliably seems to be disable 
> open-drain on ebu cs1, at which point the nand driver generates jffs2 
> errors. Regardless whether open-drain is enabled or not, switching on 
> wireless also causes jffs2 errors.
>
> The solution we are using (basically an updated version of a patch 
> produced by BTSimonh for the 3.3.8 kernel) is to disable open drain on 
> ebu cs1 and patch the nand driver as follows:
>  - move locking from the individual read and write functions to the
>    chip select function, so that an entire read or write operation can
>    complete uninterrupted;
>  - mask pci request lines during nand access;
>  - additional waiting after each nand command.
> An option in the device tree enables or disables the above.
> The latest version of my patch is appended to the message, for comment 
> only - I am not submitting it at this stage.
>
> It solves the problem, and the factory firmware does something similar,
> but it feels like a hack to work round a bug elsewhere. Could it not be
> that that the ebu needs to be set up differently for this hardware
> configuration? Is some chip select logic needed in the nor driver?
> I'd love to understand what the settings in the ebu registers actually
> do, but am I right in thinking that there are no publicly available
> datasheets for Lantiq SOCs?
>
> Any enlightenment you can provide will be gratefully received.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ben Mulvihill
>
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c    2014-01-21 20:21:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c    2014-01-21 20:29:16.000000000 +0100
> @@ -54,8 +54,28 @@
>  #define NAND_CON_CSMUX               (1 << 1)
>  #define NAND_CON_NANDM               1
>  
> +#define DANUBE_PCI_REG32( addr )    (*(volatile u32 *)(addr))
> +#define PCI_CR_PR_OFFSET         (KSEG1+0x1E105400)
> +#define PCI_CR_PC_ARB                    (PCI_CR_PR_OFFSET + 0x0080)
> +
>  static u32 xway_latchcmd;
>  
> +/*
> + * req_mask provides a mechanism to prevent interference between
> + * nand and pci (probably only relevant for the BT Home Hub 2B).
> + * Setting it causes the corresponding pci req pins to be masked
> + * during nand access, and also moves ebu locking from the read/write
> + * functions to the chip select function to ensure that the whole
> + * operation runs with interrupts disabled.
> + * In addition it switches on some extra waiting in xway_cmd_ctrl().
> + * This seems to be necessary if the ebu_cs1 pin has open-drain disabled,
> + * which in turn seems to be necessary for the nor chip to be recognised
> + * reliably, on a board (Home Hub 2B again) which has both nor and nand.
> + */
> +
> +static __be32 req_mask = 0;
> +static int pci_masked = 0;
> +
>  static void xway_reset_chip(struct nand_chip *chip)
>  {
>       unsigned long nandaddr = (unsigned long) chip->IO_ADDR_W;
> @@ -80,15 +100,36 @@
>  
>  static void xway_select_chip(struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
>  {
> +     static unsigned long flags;
>  
>       switch (chip) {
>       case -1:
>               ltq_ebu_w32_mask(NAND_CON_CE, 0, EBU_NAND_CON);
>               ltq_ebu_w32_mask(NAND_CON_NANDM, 0, EBU_NAND_CON);
> +
> +             if (req_mask) {
> +                     BUG_ON(!pci_masked);
> +                     /* Unmask all external PCI request */
> +                     DANUBE_PCI_REG32(PCI_CR_PC_ARB) &= ~(req_mask << 16);
> +                     pci_masked = 0;
> +
> +                     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +             }
> +
>               break;
>       case 0:
> +             if (req_mask) {
> +                     BUG_ON(pci_masked);
> +                     spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +
> +                     /* Mask all external PCI request */
> +                     DANUBE_PCI_REG32(PCI_CR_PC_ARB) |= (req_mask << 16);
> +                     pci_masked = 1;
> +             }
> +
>               ltq_ebu_w32_mask(0, NAND_CON_NANDM, EBU_NAND_CON);
>               ltq_ebu_w32_mask(0, NAND_CON_CE, EBU_NAND_CON);
> +
>               break;
>       default:
>               BUG();
> @@ -101,6 +142,12 @@
>       unsigned long nandaddr = (unsigned long) this->IO_ADDR_W;
>       unsigned long flags;
>  
> +     if (req_mask) {
> +             if (cmd != NAND_CMD_STATUS)
> +                     ltq_ebu_w32(EBU_NAND_WAIT, 0); /* Clear nand ready */
> +     }
> +
> +
>       if (ctrl & NAND_CTRL_CHANGE) {
>               if (ctrl & NAND_CLE)
>                       xway_latchcmd = NAND_WRITE_CMD;
> @@ -109,11 +156,31 @@
>       }
>  
>       if (cmd != NAND_CMD_NONE) {
> -             spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +             if (!req_mask)
> +                     spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
>               writeb(cmd, (void __iomem *) (nandaddr | xway_latchcmd));
>               while ((ltq_ebu_r32(EBU_NAND_WAIT) & NAND_WAIT_WR_C) == 0)
>                       ;
> -             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +             if (!req_mask)
> +                     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     }
> +
> +     if (req_mask) {
> +            /*
> +             * program and erase have their own busy handlers
> +             * status and sequential in needs no delay
> +             */
> +             switch (cmd) {
> +                     case NAND_CMD_ERASE1:
> +                     case NAND_CMD_SEQIN:
> +                     case NAND_CMD_STATUS:
> +                     case NAND_CMD_READID:
> +                     return;
> +             }
> +
> +             /* wait until command is processed */
> +             while ((ltq_ebu_r32(EBU_NAND_WAIT) & NAND_WAIT_RD) == 0)
> +                     ;
>       }
>  }
>  
> @@ -129,9 +196,11 @@
>       unsigned long flags;
>       int ret;
>  
> -     spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
>       ret = ltq_r8((void __iomem *)(nandaddr | NAND_READ_DATA));
> -     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
>  
>       return ret;
>  }
> @@ -143,10 +212,12 @@
>       unsigned long flags;
>       int i;
>  
> -     spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
>       for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>               buf[i] = ltq_r8((void __iomem *)(nandaddr | NAND_READ_DATA));
> -     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
>  }
>  
>  static void xway_write_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, const u_char *buf, int len)
> @@ -156,16 +227,20 @@
>       unsigned long flags;
>       int i;
>  
> -     spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
>       for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>               ltq_w8(buf[i], (void __iomem *)nandaddr);
> -     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
> +     if (!req_mask)
> +             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
>  }
>  
>  static int xway_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>       struct nand_chip *this = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>       unsigned long nandaddr = (unsigned long) this->IO_ADDR_W;
> +     const __be32 *req_mask_ptr = of_get_property(pdev->dev.of_node,
> +                                     "req-mask", NULL);
>       const __be32 *cs = of_get_property(pdev->dev.of_node,
>                                       "lantiq,cs", NULL);
>       u32 cs_flag = 0;
> @@ -174,6 +249,8 @@
>       if (cs && (*cs == 1))
>               cs_flag = NAND_CON_IN_CS1 | NAND_CON_OUT_CS1;
>  
> +     req_mask = (req_mask_ptr ? *req_mask_ptr : 0);
> +
>       /* setup the EBU to run in NAND mode on our base addr */
>       ltq_ebu_w32(CPHYSADDR(nandaddr)
>               | ADDSEL1_MASK(3) | ADDSEL1_REGEN, EBU_ADDSEL1);
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