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Boris BREZILLON 2d405ec5fd mtd: nand: atmel_nand: retrieve NFC clock
Retrieve the NFC clock to make sure it is enabled. Make that optional to ensure
compatibility with previous device trees but document it as mandatory so newer
device trees will include it.

Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
2014-09-17 00:45:11 -07:00
Josh Wu 6054d4d563 mtd: atmel_nand: enable Nand Flash Controller (NFC) write via sram
This patch enable writing nand flash via NFC SRAM. It will minimize the CPU
overhead. The SRAM write only support ECC_NONE and ECC_HW with PMECC.

To enable this NFC write by SRAM feature, you can add a string in dts under
NFC driver node.

This driver has been tested on SAMA5D3X-EK with JFFS2, YAFFS2, UBIFS and
mtd-utils.

Here is part of mtd_speedtest (writing test) result, compare with non-NFC
writing, it reduces %65 cpu load with loss %12 speed.

- commands use to test:
  # insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2 &
  # top -n 30 -d 1 | grep speedtest

- test result:
=================================================
mtd_speedtest: MTD device: 2
mtd_speedtest: MTD device size 41943040, eraseblock size 131072, page size 2048, count of eraseblocks 320, pages per eraseblock 64, OOB size 64
mtd_speedtest: testing eraseblock write speed
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%   7% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%   8% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%   5% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: eraseblock write speed is 5194 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing page write speed
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  32% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  27% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  25% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  30% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: page write speed is 5024 KiB/s

Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2013-08-05 21:07:51 +01:00
Josh Wu 7dc37de7d5 mtd: atmel_nand: add Nand Flash Controller (NFC) support
Nand Flash Controller (NFC) can handle automatic transfers, sending the
commands and address cycles to the NAND Flash.

To use NFC in this driver, user needs to add NFC child node in nand flash
driver. The NFC child node includes NFC's compatible string and regiters
of the address and size of NFC command registers, NFC registers (embedded
in HSMC) and NFC SRAM.
Also user need to set up the HSMC irq, which use to check whether nfc
command is finish or not.

This driver has been tested on SAMA5D3X-EK board with JFFS2, YAFFS,
UBIFS and mtd-utils.

I put the part of the mtd_speedtest result here for your information.
>From the mtd_speedtest, we can see the NFC will reduce the %50 of cpu load
when writing nand flash. No change when reading.
In the meantime, the speed will be slow about %8.

- commands use to test:
    #insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2 &
    #top -n 30 -d 1 | grep speedtest

- test result:

Before the patch:
=================================================
mtd_speedtest: MTD device: 2
mtd_speedtest: MTD device size 41943040, eraseblock size 131072, page size 2048, count of eraseblocks 320, pages per eraseblock 64, OOB size 64
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  93% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  98% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  99% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: eraseblock write speed is 5768 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing eraseblock read speed
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  92% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  91% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  94% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: eraseblock read speed is 5932 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing page write speed
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  94% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  98% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  98% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: page write speed is 5770 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing page read speed
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  91% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  89% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  515   495 root     R     1164   0%  91% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: page read speed is 5910 KiB/s

After the patch:
=================================================
mtd_speedtest: MTD device: 2
mtd_speedtest: MTD device size 41943040, eraseblock size 131072, page size 2048, count of eraseblocks 320, pages per eraseblock 64, OOB size 64
mtd_speedtest: testing eraseblock write speed
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  49% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  50% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  47% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: eraseblock write speed is 5370 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing eraseblock read speed
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  92% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  91% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  95% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: eraseblock read speed is 5715 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing page write speed
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  48% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  47% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     D     1164   0%  50% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: page write speed is 5224 KiB/s
mtd_speedtest: testing page read speed
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  89% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  94% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
  509   495 root     R     1164   0%  93% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
mtd_speedtest: page read speed is 5641 KiB/s

Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2013-08-05 21:07:41 +01:00
Josh Wu 1b7192658a mtd: atmel_nand: add a new dt binding item for nand dma support
This patch will set the nand dma support in dts. Since we will not use
cpu_is_xxx() in nand driver. We needn't include the mach/cpu.h any more.

Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2013-08-05 20:56:15 +01:00
Josh Wu a41b51a1f7 mtd: at91: add dt parameters for Atmel PMECC
Add DT support for PMECC parameters.

Signed-off-by: Hong Xu <hong.xu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-07-06 18:21:09 +01:00
Nicolas Ferre c16524e6a9 ARM: at91/NAND DT bindings: add comments
Add comments to NAND "gpios" property to make it clearer.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
2012-04-04 18:35:42 +02:00
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD d6a016616b atmel/nand: add DT support
Use a local copy of board informatin and fill with DT data.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
2012-03-15 23:29:12 +08:00