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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 06/14] mtd: rawnand: qcom: erased page detection for uncorrectable errors only
Hi Abhishek,

On Thu, 3 May 2018 17:50:33 +0530, Abhishek Sahu
<absahu@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> Following is the flow in the HW if controller tries to read erased
> page

Nit: ^ missing ':'

>
> 1. First ECC uncorrectable error will be generated from ECC engine
> since ECC engine first calculates the ECC with all 0xff and match
> the calculated ECC with ECC code in OOB (which is again all 0xff).
> 2. After getting ECC error, erased CW detection logic will be
> applied which is different for BCH and RS ECC
> a. For BCH, HW checks if all the bytes in page are 0xff and then
> it updates the status in separate register
> NAND_ERASED_CW_DETECT_STATUS.
> b. For RS ECC, the HW reports the same error when reading an
> erased CW, but it notifies that it is an erased CW by
> placing special characters at certain offsets in the
> buffer.
>
> So the erased CW detect status should be checked only if ECC engine
> generated the uncorrectable error.
>
> Currently for all other operational errors also (like TIMEOUT, MPU
> errors, etc.), the erased CW detect logic is being applied so fix this
> and return EIO for other operational errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sahu <absahu@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> * Changes from v1:
>
> 1. Added more detail in commit message
> 2. Added comment before each if/else

Thanks for that, it's much more ease to review :)

> 3. Removed redundant check for BS_UNCORRECTABLE_BIT
>
> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Thanks,
Miquèl

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