The initial layout for such NAND chips was the following:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 32 (free OOB) | 30 (ECC) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This layout has a weakness: reading empty pages trigger ECC errors (this is expected), but the hardware ECC engine tries to correct the data anyway and creates itself bitflips, hence bitflips are detected in erased pages while actually there are none in the NAND chip.
Two solutions have been found at the same time. One was to enlarge the free OOB area to 64 bytes, changing the layout to be:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 1024 (data) | 30 (ECC) | 64 (free OOB) | 30 (ECC) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^^
The very big drawbacks of this solution are: 1/ It prevents booting from NAND. 2/ The current Linux driver (marvell_nand) does not have such problem because it already re-reads possible empty pages in raw mode before checking for bitflips. Using different layouts in U-Boot and Linux would simply not work.
As this driver does support raw reads now and uses it to check for empty pages, let's forget about this broken hack and return to the initial layout with only 32 free OOB bytes.
Fixes: ac56a3b30c ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: add support for 2KB 8-bit flash") Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com --- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c index 492485b1d0..4d2712df4c 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pxa3xx_nand.c @@ -327,14 +327,14 @@ static struct nand_ecclayout ecc_layout_2KB_bch4bit = { static struct nand_ecclayout ecc_layout_2KB_bch8bit = { .eccbytes = 64, .eccpos = { - 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, - 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, - 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, - 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, - 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, - 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, - 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, - 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127}, + 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, + 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, + 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, + 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, + 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, + 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, + 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, + 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95}, .oobfree = { {1, 4}, {6, 26} } };
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ static int pxa_ecc_init(struct pxa3xx_nand_info *info, info->chunk_size = 1024; info->spare_size = 0; info->last_chunk_size = 1024; - info->last_spare_size = 64; + info->last_spare_size = 32; info->ecc_size = 32; ecc->mode = NAND_ECC_HW; ecc->size = info->chunk_size;