It seems that several hardware ECC engine use a swapped representation
of bytes compared to software. This might having to do with how the
ECC engine is wired to the NAND controller or the order the bits are
passed to the hardware BCH logic.
This means that when the software BCH engine is working in conjunction
with data generated with hardware, sometimes we might need to swap the
bits inside bytes, eg:
0x0A = b0000_1010 -> b0101_0000 = 0x50
Make it possible by adding a boolean to the BCH initialization routine.
Regarding the implementation itself, this is a rather simple approach
that can probably be enhanced in the future by preparing the
->a_{mod,pow}_tab tables with the swapping in mind.
Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200519074549.23673-3-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
There are four exported functions, all suffixed by _bch, which is
clearly not the norm. Let's rename them by prefixing them with bch_
instead.
This is a mechanical change:
init_bch -> bch_init
free_bch -> bch_free
encode_bch -> bch_encode
decode_bch -> bch_decode
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200519074549.23673-2-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
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Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
Reed-Solomon library.
Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct
errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they
are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit
errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at
least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block.
This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with
ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being
currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It
has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc
engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices).
Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically
a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to
minimize the performance impact of error correction, this library
implements recently developed algorithms for fast polynomial root finding
(see bch.c header for details) instead of the traditional exhaustive Chien
root search; a few performance figures are provided below:
Platform: arm926ejs @ 468 MHz, 32 KiB icache, 16 KiB dcache
BCH ecc : 4-bit per 512 bytes
Encoding average throughput: 250 Mbits/s
Error correction time (compared with Chien search):
average worst average (Chien) worst (Chien)
----------------------------------------------------------
1 bit 8.5 µs 11 µs 200 µs 383 µs
2 bit 9.7 µs 12.5 µs 477 µs 728 µs
3 bit 18.1 µs 20.6 µs 758 µs 1010 µs
4 bit 19.5 µs 23 µs 1028 µs 1280 µs
In the above figures, "worst" is meant in terms of error pattern, not in
terms of cache miss / page faults effects (not taken into account here).
The library has been extensively tested on the following platforms: x86,
x86_64, arm926ejs, omap3630, qemu-ppc64, qemu-mips.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Miquel Raynal
Thomas Gleixner
Ivan Djelic