Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mtd: nand: increase ready wait timeout and report timeouts | From | Alex Smith <> | Date | Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:38:01 +0100 |
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Hi Ezequiel,
Thanks for reviewing the series.
On 06/09/2015 21:37, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > On 27 Jul 02:50 PM, Alex Smith wrote: >> If nand_wait_ready() times out, this is silently ignored, and its >> caller will then proceed to read from/write to the chip before it is >> ready. This can potentially result in corruption with no indication as >> to why. >> >> While a 20ms timeout seems like it should be plenty enough, certain >> behaviour can cause it to timeout much earlier than expected. The >> situation which prompted this change was that CPU 0, which is >> responsible for updating jiffies, was holding interrupts disabled >> for a fairly long time while writing to the console during a printk, >> causing several jiffies updates to be delayed. If CPU 1 happens to >> enter the timeout loop in nand_wait_ready() just before CPU 0 re- >> enables interrupts and updates jiffies, CPU 1 will immediately time >> out when the delayed jiffies updates are made. The result of this is >> that nand_wait_ready() actually waits less time than the NAND chip >> would normally take to be ready, and then read_page() proceeds to >> read out bad data from the chip. >> >> The situation described above may seem unlikely, but in fact it can be >> reproduced almost every boot on the MIPS Creator Ci20. >> > > Not only unlikely but scary :) BTW, can't find SMP patches for Ci20, > are you sure this behavior will apply once SMP is upstreamed?
Certainly made for fun debugging ;)
SMP support only exists in our 3.18 branch [1] at the moment, which was where this problem was encountered. Support should be upstreamed at some point, and I would guess that this behaviour could still happen then (even though it's a really obscure edge case that we were somehow managing to almost always hit on boot).
[1] https://github.com/MIPS/CI20_linux
> >> Debugging this was made more difficult by the misleading comment above >> nand_wait_ready() stating "The timeout is caught later" - no timeout >> was ever reported, leading me away from the real source of the problem. >> >> Therefore, this patch increases the timeout to 200ms. This should be >> enough to cover cases where jiffies updates get delayed. Additionally, >> add a pr_warn() when a timeout does occur so that it is easier to >> pinpoint any problems in future caused by the chip not becoming ready. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com> >> Cc: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com> >> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> >> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> >> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> --- >> v3 -> v4: >> - New patch to fix issue encountered in external Ci20 3.18 kernel >> branch which also applies upstream. >> --- >> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c >> index ceb68ca8277a..a0dab3414f16 100644 >> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c >> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c >> @@ -543,23 +543,32 @@ static void panic_nand_wait_ready(struct mtd_info *mtd, unsigned long timeo) >> } >> } >> >> -/* Wait for the ready pin, after a command. The timeout is caught later. */ >> +/** >> + * nand_wait_ready - [GENERIC] Wait for the ready pin after commands. >> + * @mtd: MTD device structure >> + * >> + * Wait for the ready pin after a command, and warn if a timeout occurs. >> + */ >> void nand_wait_ready(struct mtd_info *mtd) >> { >> struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv; >> - unsigned long timeo = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(20); >> + unsigned long timeo = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(200); >> >> /* 400ms timeout */ >> if (in_interrupt() || oops_in_progress) >> return panic_nand_wait_ready(mtd, 400); >> >> led_trigger_event(nand_led_trigger, LED_FULL); >> + > > Spurious change here.
Removed.
> >> /* Wait until command is processed or timeout occurs */ >> do { >> if (chip->dev_ready(mtd)) >> - break; >> + goto out; >> touch_softlockup_watchdog(); >> } while (time_before(jiffies, timeo)); >> + >> + pr_warn("timeout while waiting for chip to become ready\n"); >> +out: >> led_trigger_event(nand_led_trigger, LED_OFF); >> } > > This change looks reasonable, a timeout value should be large enough > to be confident the operation has _really_ timed out. On non-error > path, this change shouldn't make any difference. > > And the warning is probably helpful too, so: > > Reviewed-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Great, thanks.
Alex
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