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authorAdrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>2008-04-14 09:39:39 +0300
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2008-04-22 21:26:16 +0100
commit67e5a28b35254bbbcd5bfce61ef646709e059bbf (patch)
tree044fe264f3f770a93fa4de00c8ff0a909d0e007b /drivers/mtd
parentf1ebe4eba40e0ee862767893277d1b1a1e4cc85f (diff)
[MTD] [OneNAND] Allow for controller errors when reading
A power loss while writing can result in a page becoming unreadable. When the device is mounted again, reading that page gives controller errors. Upper level software like JFFS2 treat -EIO as fatal, refusing to mount at all. That means it is necessary to treat the error as an ECC error to allow recovery. Note that typically in this case, the eraseblock can still be erased and rewritten i.e. it has not become a bad block. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
index 56255c85d97..5d7965f7e9c 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
@@ -329,6 +329,21 @@ static int onenand_wait(struct mtd_info *mtd, int state)
printk(KERN_ERR "onenand_wait: controller error = 0x%04x\n", ctrl);
if (ctrl & ONENAND_CTRL_LOCK)
printk(KERN_ERR "onenand_wait: it's locked error.\n");
+ if (state == FL_READING) {
+ /*
+ * A power loss while writing can result in a page
+ * becoming unreadable. When the device is mounted
+ * again, reading that page gives controller errors.
+ * Upper level software like JFFS2 treat -EIO as fatal,
+ * refusing to mount at all. That means it is necessary
+ * to treat the error as an ECC error to allow recovery.
+ * Note that typically in this case, the eraseblock can
+ * still be erased and rewritten i.e. it has not become
+ * a bad block.
+ */
+ mtd->ecc_stats.failed++;
+ return -EBADMSG;
+ }
return -EIO;
}