[MTD] [OneNAND] Allow for controller errors when reading
authorAdrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:39 +0000 (09:39 +0300)
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:26:16 +0000 (21:26 +0100)
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>
drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c

index 56255c8..5d7965f 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
        }