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authorJoakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>2009-11-19 06:01:58 -0500
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2009-11-30 04:58:53 -0500
commit2695eab964efaa382168e0351705967bd9deb7ea (patch)
tree41c2711f7849f6a0be9ce388fad33fb4ddb62ffa /drivers/mtd
parentc1317f7163d287805b8e12af12d04a2a6ead865c (diff)
mtd: CFI cmdset_0002: enable erase-suspend-program
Erase-suspend for writing is required to avoid blocking applications that wish to write some data (to a NOR block other than the one being erased). Particularly, it solves some huge delays that an application (which writes to a UBIFS) will experience if UBI attaches to empty NOR flash. In this case the UBI background thread will erase a lot of blocks and the application can be blocked for minutes because of the "MTD/CFI chip lock". This feature has been disabled for years. Maybe this was because the old code turned it on for erase-suspend read-only chips also (cfip->EraseSuspend & 0x1). This is wrong and corrected now. This patch was tweaked by Norbert van Bolhuis. Signed-off-by: Norbert van Bolhuis <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c16
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
index 94bb61e19047..1d49e18adbf6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c
@@ -490,10 +490,6 @@ static struct mtd_info *cfi_amdstd_setup(struct mtd_info *mtd)
490 } 490 }
491#endif 491#endif
492 492
493 /* FIXME: erase-suspend-program is broken. See
494 http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2003-December/009001.html */
495 printk(KERN_NOTICE "cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.\n");
496
497 __module_get(THIS_MODULE); 493 __module_get(THIS_MODULE);
498 return mtd; 494 return mtd;
499 495
@@ -589,15 +585,9 @@ static int get_chip(struct map_info *map, struct flchip *chip, unsigned long adr
589 return 0; 585 return 0;
590 586
591 case FL_ERASING: 587 case FL_ERASING:
592 if (mode == FL_WRITING) /* FIXME: Erase-suspend-program appears broken. */ 588 if (!cfip || !(cfip->EraseSuspend & (0x1|0x2)) ||
593 goto sleep; 589 !(mode == FL_READY || mode == FL_POINT ||
594 590 (mode == FL_WRITING && (cfip->EraseSuspend & 0x2))))
595 if (!( mode == FL_READY
596 || mode == FL_POINT
597 || !cfip
598 || (mode == FL_WRITING && (cfip->EraseSuspend & 0x2))
599 || (mode == FL_WRITING && (cfip->EraseSuspend & 0x1)
600 )))
601 goto sleep; 591 goto sleep;
602 592
603 /* We could check to see if we're trying to access the sector 593 /* We could check to see if we're trying to access the sector