Hello,
The detailed description is available in each patch description but
basically:
* The FSMC driver was (I believe) still broken so here is a patch for
that.
* As requested by Linus when he pulled a series of fixes during the 5.13
cycle, the need for declaring individual indentical helpers in each
driver using the "raw" Hamming ECC helpers was unjustified:
- Here is a proposal for simplifying the situation
- Followed by a series of revert (no need to backport these, it's just
general cleanup).
Thanks,
Miquèl
Miquel Raynal (8):
mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Fix use of SM ORDER
mtd: rawnand: Let callers use the bare Hamming helpers
Revert "mtd: rawnand: txx9ndfmc: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC
helper"
Revert "mtd: rawnand: tmio: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC helper"
Revert "mtd: rawnand: sharpsl: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC
helper"
Revert "mtd: rawnand: ndfc: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC helper"
Revert "mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_slc: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC
helper"
Revert "mtd: rawnand: cs553x: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC
helper"
drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-hamming.c | 7 ++++---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cs553x_nand.c | 12 +-----------
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/fsmc_nand.c | 4 +++-
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c | 15 +--------------
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ndfc.c | 12 +-----------
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sharpsl.c | 12 +-----------
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/tmio_nand.c | 8 +++-----
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/txx9ndfmc.c | 5 ++---
8 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
--
2.27.0
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The introduction of the generic ECC engine API lead to a number of
changes in various drivers which broke some of them. Here is a typical
example: I expected the SM_ORDER option to be handled by the Hamming ECC
engine internals. Problem: the fsmc driver does not instantiate (yet) a
real ECC engine object so we had to use a 'bare' ECC helper instead of
the shiny rawnand functions. However, when not intializing this engine
properly and using the bare helpers, we do not get the SM ORDER feature
handled automatically. It looks like this was lost in the process so
let's ensure we use the right SM ORDER now.
Fixes: ad9ffdce4539 ("mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC helper")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/fsmc_nand.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
@@ -438,8 +438,10 @@ static int fsmc_correct_ecc1(struct nand_chip *chip,unsignedchar*read_ecc,unsignedchar*calc_ecc){+boolsm_order=chip->ecc.options&NAND_ECC_SOFT_HAMMING_SM_ORDER;+returnecc_sw_hamming_correct(buf,read_ecc,calc_ecc,-chip->ecc.size,false);+chip->ecc.size,sm_order);}/* Count the number of 0's in buff upto a max of max_bits */
--
2.27.0
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Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
Enhancing the implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers to support
both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is not is a
quite elegant way to solve this situation. This way, we can still use
the existing and exported rawnand helpers while avoiding the need for
each driver to declare its own helper.
Following this change, most of the fixes sent in [2] can now be safely
reverted. Only the fsmc fix will need to be kept because there is
actually something specific to the driver to do in its ->correct()
helper.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com/
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/ecc-sw-hamming.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
This reverts commit 6a4c5ada577467a5f79e06f2c5e69c09983c22fb.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/tmio_nand.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
This reverts commit 3d227a0b0ce319edbff6fd0d8af4d66689e477cc.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/txx9ndfmc.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
This reverts commit 46fcb57e6b7283533ebf8ba17a6bd30fa88bdc9f.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/sharpsl.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
This reverts commit 3e09c0252501829b14b10f14e1982aaab77d0b80.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ndfc.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
This reverts commit c4b7d7c480d607e4f52d310d9d16b194868d0917.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c | 15 +--------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)
This reverts commit 56a8d3fd1f342d10ee7b27e9ac0f4d00b5fbb91c.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cs553x_nand.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:07 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit 56a8d3fd1f342d10ee7b27e9ac0f4d00b5fbb91c.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:06 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit c4b7d7c480d607e4f52d310d9d16b194868d0917.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:05 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit 3e09c0252501829b14b10f14e1982aaab77d0b80.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:04 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit 46fcb57e6b7283533ebf8ba17a6bd30fa88bdc9f.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:03 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit 6a4c5ada577467a5f79e06f2c5e69c09983c22fb.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:02 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
This reverts commit 3d227a0b0ce319edbff6fd0d8af4d66689e477cc.
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
The implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers has now been enhanced
to support both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is
not. This way, we can still use the existing and exported rawnand
helpers while avoiding the need for each driver to declare its own
helper, thus this fix from [2] can now be safely reverted.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:01 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
behalf of their limited hardware.
Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
for this purpose in each driver needing one.
Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
time to clean this mess up.
Enhancing the implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers to support
both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is not is a
quite elegant way to solve this situation. This way, we can still use
the existing and exported rawnand helpers while avoiding the need for
each driver to declare its own helper.
Following this change, most of the fixes sent in [2] can now be safely
reverted. Only the fsmc fix will need to be kept because there is
actually something specific to the driver to do in its ->correct()
helper.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com/
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 22:15:00 UTC, Miquel Raynal wrote:
The introduction of the generic ECC engine API lead to a number of
changes in various drivers which broke some of them. Here is a typical
example: I expected the SM_ORDER option to be handled by the Hamming ECC
engine internals. Problem: the fsmc driver does not instantiate (yet) a
real ECC engine object so we had to use a 'bare' ECC helper instead of
the shiny rawnand functions. However, when not intializing this engine
properly and using the bare helpers, we do not get the SM ORDER feature
handled automatically. It looks like this was lost in the process so
let's ensure we use the right SM ORDER now.
Fixes: ad9ffdce4539 ("mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Fix external use of SW Hamming ECC helper")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>