Message ID | 20180911154007.17195-1-tudor.ambarus@microchip.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories | expand |
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:40:05 +0300 Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com> wrote: > Backward compatibility test done on mx25l3273fm2i-08g with > CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS set and unset. > Non-uniform erase test done on sst26vf064b-104i/sn with > CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS set and unset. > > Note that in order to do the non-uniform test you'll have to force the > spi_nor_has_uniform_erase() to return false, because the erase map is > tuned to come back to the uniform case. Also, for the SST flashes, you'll > have to unlock the global protection (see > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1763887.html). > > Changes in v3: > - drop "mtd: spi-nor: parse SFDP 4-byte Address Instruction Table": > let's add just a feature per patch set to make it easily digestible. > No worries, will resubmit it once the non-uniform erase supports gets > approved. > - SNOR_ERASE_FLAGS_OFFSET was buggy and since it's used only once > in the uniform erase case, remove it entirely and do the init by > hand > - describe all introduced functions together with arguments and > return value > - various minor updates: drop a cast, rename a function - cosmetics ... > > Changes in v2: > - add JESD216B SFDP optional parsers: Sector Map Parameter Table parser and > 4-byte Address Instruction Table parser (patch 2/3 and patch 3/3). > > - save the Erase Types from bfpt to determine the Erase Type sizes. Sort all > the map's Erase Types in ascending order with the smallest erase size being > the first member in the erase_type array. Sort in the same way the Erase Type > mask in regions in order to have a 1-to-1 correspondence with the Erase > Types defined in the map. We sort the Erase Type by size, at init, in order to > speed up the process of finding the best erase command at run-time. > > - remove setting of mtd->erasesize and nor->erase_opcode when parsing the Basic > Flash Parameter Table. mtd->erasesize was set to the maximum supported Erase > Type size, without verifying if that Erase Type can erase the entire flash. > mtd->erasesize is now set just in spi_nor_select_erase(), after we find which > Erase Types are supported in the uniform case. > > - spi_nor_select_erase(): pass directly info->sector_size instead of the whole > flash_info structure in order to simplify the code. > > - fix condition on finding erase regions: > while (addr < region_start || addr >= region_end) { > - fix the list command adding: list_add_tail() instead of list_add() > - write_enable(nor); before erasing the sectors > - As Boris suggested, remove likely() because it doesn't make any difference > given the time it takes to actually erase the block. > - bool return value for spi_nor_has_uniform_erase(). > > Changes in v1 or what I've done on top of Cyrille's work (https://lkml.org/lkml// > 2017/4/15/70): > - minimize the amount of erase() calls by using the best sequence of erase > type commands depending on alignment. > - build the list of best fitted erase commands to be executed once we > validate that the erase can be performed. > - add improvements on how the erase map is handled. The regions are > consecutive in the address space, walk through the regions incrementally. > - speed up finding the best erase type command. Order erase types by > size, iterate them from the biggest to the smallest and stop when best > fitted command is found. > - determine at init if there are erase types that can erase the entire > memory > - fix support for overlaid regions. > > > Tudor Ambarus (2): > mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories > mtd: spi-nor: parse SFDP Sector Map Parameter Table Queued to spi-nor/next after fixing the kerneldoc headers. Thanks, Boris