mtd: clear cache_state to avoid writing to bad blocks repeatedly
The function call process is as follows: mtd_blktrans_work() while (1) do_blktrans_request() mtdblock_writesect() do_cached_write() write_cached_data() /*if cache_state is STATE_DIRTY*/ erase_write() write_cached_data() returns failure without modifying cache_state and cache_offset. So when do_cached_write() is called again, write_cached_data() will be called again to perform erase_write() on the same cache_offset. But if this cache_offset points to a bad block, erase_write() will always return -EIO. Writing to this mtdblk is equivalent to losing the current data, and repeatedly writing to the bad block. Repeatedly writing a bad block has no real benefits, but brings some negative effects: 1 Lost subsequent data 2 Loss of flash device life 3 erase_write() bad blocks are very time-consuming. For example: the function do_erase_oneblock() in chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c or chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c may take more than 20 seconds to return Therefore, when erase_write() returns -EIO in write_cached_data(), clear cache_state to avoid writing to bad blocks repeatedly. Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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