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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v5 4/6] mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SPI NOR flash memories
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On 03/23/2017 12:33 AM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:

Hrmmmm, sigh, took me almost month to review this one, sorry :(

> This patch is a first step in introducing the support of SPI memories
> with non-uniform erase sizes like Spansion s25fs512s.
>
> It introduces the memory erase map which splits the memory array into one
> or many erase regions. Each erase region supports up to 4 erase commands,
> as defined by the JEDEC JESD216B (SFDP) specification.
> In turn, an erase command is defined by an op code and a sector size.
>
> To be backward compatible, the erase map of uniform SPI NOR flash memories
> is initialized so it contains only one erase region and this erase region
> supports only one erase command. Hence a single size is used to erase any
> sector/block of the memory.
>
> Besides, since the algorithm used to erase sectors on non-uniform SPI NOR
> flash memories is quite expensive, when possible, the erase map is tuned
> to come back to the uniform case.
>
> This is a transitional patch: non-uniform erase maps will be used later
> when initialized based on the SFDP data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>

[...]

Before I dive into the code, I have two questions:

1) On ie. 128 MiB part, how many struct spi_nor_erase_region {}
instances would be allocated in total (consider you support
4k, 64k and 32M erase opcodes) ? Three ?

2) Would it make sense to represent the erase regions as a tree instead?
For example

[ region with 32MiB die erase opcode , start=0 , count=4 ]
|
V
[ region with 64k erase opcode ][ region with 64k erase opcode ]
[ start=0, count=1 ][ start=0, count=511 ]
|
V
[ region with 4k erase opcode ]
[ start=0, count=16 ]

I think it'd make the lookup for the best-fitting opcode combination
faster if the user decides to erase some arbitrarily-aligned block of
the flash.

What do you think ?

Note this tree-based approach does not handle the cases where erase
regions would overlap, although I doubt that could be a problem .

> diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h b/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> index d270788f5ab6..c12cafe99bee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> @@ -216,6 +216,55 @@ enum spi_nor_option_flags {
> };
>
> /**
> + * struct spi_nor_erase_command - Structure to describe a SPI NOR erase command
> + * @size: the size of the sector/block erased by the command.
> + * @size_shift: the size shift: if @size is a power of 2 then the shift
> + * is stored in @size_shift, otherwise @size_shift is zero.
> + * @size_mask: the size mask based on @size_shift.
> + * @opcode: the SPI command op code to erase the sector/block.
> + */
> +struct spi_nor_erase_command {
> + u32 size;
> + u32 size_shift;
> + u32 size_mask;
> + u8 opcode;
> +};
> +
> +/**
> + * struct spi_nor_erase_region - Structure to describe a SPI NOR erase region
> + * @offset: the offset in the data array of erase region start.
> + * LSB bits are used as a bitmask encoding the erase
> + * commands supported inside this erase region.
> + * @size: the size of the region in bytes.
> + */
> +struct spi_nor_erase_region {
> + u64 offset;
> + u64 size;
> +};
> +
> +#define SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MAX 4
> +#define SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MASK GENMASK_ULL(SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MAX - 1, 0)
> +#define SNOR_CMD_ERASE_OFFSET(_cmd_mask, _offset) \
> + ((((u64)(_offset)) & ~SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MASK) | \
> + (((u64)(_cmd_mask)) & SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MASK))
> +
> +/**
> + * struct spi_nor_erase_map - Structure to describe the SPI NOR erase map
> + * @commands: an array of erase commands shared by all the regions.
> + * @uniform_region: a pre-allocated erase region for SPI NOR with a uniform
> + * sector size (legacy implementation).
> + * @regions: point to an array describing the boundaries of the erase
> + * regions.
> + * @num_regions: the number of elements in the @regions array.
> + */
> +struct spi_nor_erase_map {
> + struct spi_nor_erase_command commands[SNOR_CMD_ERASE_MAX];
> + struct spi_nor_erase_region uniform_region;
> + struct spi_nor_erase_region *regions;
> + u32 num_regions;
> +};
> +
> +/**
> * struct flash_info - Forward declaration of a structure used internally by
> * spi_nor_scan() and spi_nor_init().
> */
> @@ -238,6 +287,7 @@ struct flash_info;
> * @write_proto: the SPI protocol for write operations
> * @reg_proto the SPI protocol for read_reg/write_reg/erase operations
> * @cmd_buf: used by the write_reg
> + * @erase_map: the erase map of the SPI NOR
> * @prepare: [OPTIONAL] do some preparations for the
> * read/write/erase/lock/unlock operations
> * @unprepare: [OPTIONAL] do some post work after the
> @@ -273,6 +323,7 @@ struct spi_nor {
> bool sst_write_second;
> u32 flags;
> u8 cmd_buf[SPI_NOR_MAX_CMD_SIZE];
> + struct spi_nor_erase_map erase_map;
>
> int (*prepare)(struct spi_nor *nor, enum spi_nor_ops ops);
> void (*unprepare)(struct spi_nor *nor, enum spi_nor_ops ops);
> @@ -293,6 +344,11 @@ struct spi_nor {
> void *priv;
> };
>
> +static inline bool spi_nor_has_uniform_erase(const struct spi_nor *nor)
> +{
> + return (nor->erase_map.regions == &nor->erase_map.uniform_region);
> +}
> +
> static inline void spi_nor_set_flash_node(struct spi_nor *nor,
> struct device_node *np)
> {
>


--
Best regards,
Marek Vasut

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