Linux NAND FLASH驱动程序分析(mini2440)

 

Linux NAND FLASH驱动程序分析(mini2440)

 

一、Linux-MTD Subsystem介绍

      FLASH在嵌入式系统中是必不可少的，它是bootloader、linux内核和文件系统的最佳载体。在Linux内核中引入了MTD子系统为NORFLASH和NAND FLASH设备提供统一的接口，从而使得FLASH驱动的设计大为简化。

 

      在引入MTD后Linux系统中FLASH设备驱动可分为四层，如图：

 

1. 硬件驱动层

    FLASH硬件驱动层负责FLASH硬件设备的读、写、擦出，LINUX MTD设备的NOR FLASH驱动位于/driver/mtd/chips子目录下，NAND FLASH驱动则位于/driver/mtd/nand子目录下。

特定硬件层负责完成特定硬件的读写，例如2440的/driver/mtd/nand/s3c2410.c

通用驱动为所有nand的通用部分，实现nand设备发现，通用读写等./driver/mtd/nand/nand_base.c

2. MTD原始设备层：MTD原始设备层由两部分构成，一部分是MTD原始设备的通用代码(mtdcore.c、mtdpart.c)，另一部分是各个   特定的FLASH的数据，例如分区。

3. MTD设备层：基于MTD原始设备，LINUX系统可以定义出MTD的块设备（主设备号31）和字符设备（设备号90），构成设备层。MTD字符设备在mtdchar.c实现，MTD块设备在mtdblock.c实现。

4. 设备节点：通过mknod在/dev子目录下建立MTD字符设备节点（主设备号为90）和块设备节点（主设备号为31），用户通过访问此设备节点即可访问MTD字符设备和块设备。

也可通过下图理解：

    从上图可以看出，MTD设备层与原始设备层打交道。通过分析源代码我们可以知道当上层要求对FLASH进行读写时，它会像设备层发出请求，设备层的读写函数会调用原始设备层中的读写函数，即mtd_info结构体（mtd原始设备层中描述设备的专用结构体）中的读写函数，而mtd_info中的函数会调用nand_chip（nand硬件驱动层中描述设备的结构体，其中包含了针对特定设备的基本参数和设备操作函数）中的读写函数。所以一个flash硬件驱动程序时的步骤大致如下：

1.  如果FLASH要分区，则定义mtd_partition数组，将FLASH分区信息记录其中。

mtd_partitionfriendly_arm_default_nand_part[],arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/common-friendly-arm.c

2. 在模块加载时为每一个chip(主分区)分配mtd_info和nand_chip的内存，根据目标板nand 控制器的特殊情况初始化nand_chip中的实现对FLASH操作的成员函数，如hwcontrol()、dev_ready()、read_byte()、write_byte()等。填充mtd_info,并将其priv成员指向nand_chip。 driver/mtd/nand/s3c2410/c

3. 以mtd_info为参数调用nand_scan()函数探测NAND FLASH的存在。nand_scan()函数会从FLASH芯片中读取其参数，填充相应nand_chip成员。 driver/mtd/nand/nand_base/c

nand_scan()分为两步，首先是nand_scan_ident(),主要完成flashID的读取等，然后是nand_scan_tail(),主要完成chip结构体中未初始化函数的默认赋值，以及坏块的扫描。

4. 如果要分区，则以mtd_info和mtd_partition为参数调用add_mtd_partions(),添加分区信息。在这个函数里面会为每一个分区分配一个mtd_info结构体填充，并注册。

 

 

二、nand flash驱动程序实例分析

     我们以2.6.29内核中mini2440的nand flash驱动程序为例来分析一下这个过程，这里的flash驱动被写成了platform驱动的形式。我们下面分析其过程：

1. 注册nand flash设备

 nand flash分区：

 

//arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/common-friendly-arm.cstatic struct mtd_partition friendly_arm_default_nand_part[] = {[0] = {.name= "supervivi",.size= 0x00060000,.offset= 0,},[1] = {.name= "Kernel",.offset = 0x00060000,.size= 0x00200000,},[2] = {.name= "root",.offset = 0x00260000,.size= 1024 * 1024 * 1024, //64U * 1024 * 1024 - 0x00260000,},[3] = {.name= "nand",.offset = 0x00000000,.size= 1024 * 1024 * 1024, //64U * 1024 * 1024 - 0x00260000,}};static struct s3c2410_nand_set friendly_arm_nand_sets[] = {[0] = {.name= "NAND",.nr_chips= 1, //系统只有一个chip.nr_partitions= ARRAY_SIZE(friendly_arm_default_nand_part), // 4个分区.partitions= friendly_arm_default_nand_part,},};static struct s3c2410_platform_nand friendly_arm_nand_info = {.tacls= 20,//2440 rNFCONF 需要设置的时钟信息.twrph0= 60,.twrph1= 20,.nr_sets= ARRAY_SIZE(friendly_arm_nand_sets),.sets= friendly_arm_nand_sets,};//这里将许多数据作为platform_data传入包括chip数组 

nand控制器资源

//arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/devs.cstatic struct resource s3c_nand_resource[] = {[0] = {.start = S3C24XX_PA_NAND,.end = S3C24XX_PA_NAND + S3C24XX_SZ_NAND - 1,.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,}};struct platform_device s3c_device_nand = {.name = "s3c2410-nand",.id = -1,.num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(s3c_nand_resource),.resource = s3c_nand_resource,};//注册nand flash作为platform device:static struct platform_device __initdata *friendly_arm_devs[] = {&s3c_device_nand,&s3c_device_sdi,&s3c_device_usbgadget,};void __init friendly_arm_machine_init(void){/* Configure the LEDs (even if we have no LED support)*/s3c_device_nand.dev.platform_data = &friendly_arm_nand_info;//在nand的驱动程序的probe中会利用这个负责，以及后面添加分区是获取分区信息platform_add_devices(friendly_arm_devs, ARRAY_SIZE(friendly_arm_devs));s3c2410_pm_init();} 

2.注册nand flash driver

//linux/drivers/mtd/nand/s3c2410.cstatic struct platform_driver s3c2440_nand_driver = {.probe= s3c2440_nand_probe,.remove= s3c2410_nand_remove,.suspend= s3c24xx_nand_suspend,.resume= s3c24xx_nand_resume,.driver= {.name= "s3c2440-nand",.owner= THIS_MODULE,},};static int __init s3c2410_nand_init(void){printk("S3C24XX NAND Driver, (c) 2004 Simtec Electronics/n");platform_driver_register(&s3c2412_nand_driver);platform_driver_register(&s3c2440_nand_driver);return platform_driver_register(&s3c2410_nand_driver);} 

 

        当platform_driver驱动被加载时或者是当platform_device被注册时，总线驱动程序

 

会查找与设备匹配的驱动程序，找到时设备驱动程序的probe函数会被调用，下面我们来分析一下在我们驱动程序中的probe函数

probe的具体调用流程见 Linux NAND FLASH驱动代码分析

static int s3c2440_nand_probe(struct platform_device *dev){return s3c24xx_nand_probe(dev, TYPE_S3C2440);}/* s3c2410_nand_probe * * called by device layer when it finds a device matching * one our driver can handled. This code checks to see if * it can allocate all necessary resources then calls the * nand layer to look for devices*/static int s3c24xx_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev, enum s3c_cpu_type cpu_type){struct s3c2410_platform_nand *plat = to_nand_plat(pdev);struct s3c2410_nand_info *info;struct s3c2410_nand_mtd *nmtd;struct s3c2410_nand_set *sets;struct resource *res;int err = 0;int size;int nr_sets;int setno;pr_debug("s3c2410_nand_probe(%p)/n", pdev);info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); //分配s3c2410_nand_info内存if (info == NULL) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no memory for flash info/n");err = -ENOMEM;goto exit_error;}memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));platform_set_drvdata(pdev, info);spin_lock_init(&info->controller.lock);init_waitqueue_head(&info->controller.wq);/* get the clock source and enable it */info->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "nand");if (IS_ERR(info->clk)) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get clock/n");err = -ENOENT;goto exit_error;}clk_enable(info->clk);/* allocate and map the resource *//* currently we assume we have the one resource */res = pdev->resource;size = res->end - res->start + 1;info->area = request_mem_region(res->start, size, pdev->name);if (info->area == NULL) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot reserve register region/n");err = -ENOENT;goto exit_error;}info->device = &pdev->dev;info->platform = plat;info->regs = ioremap(res->start, size);//存储Nand控制器的虚拟地址info->cpu_type = cpu_type;if (info->regs == NULL) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot reserve register region/n");err = -EIO;goto exit_error;}dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "mapped registers at %p/n", info->regs);/* initialise the hardware */err = s3c2410_nand_inithw(info);//初始化硬件，设置TACLS,TWRPH0/1(2440-rNFCONF)并使能nand控制器if (err != 0)goto exit_error;sets = (plat != NULL) ? plat->sets : NULL;nr_sets = (plat != NULL) ? plat->nr_sets : 1;info->mtd_count = nr_sets;//1/* allocate our information */size = nr_sets * sizeof(*info->mtds);//nr_sets = 1info->mtds = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);if (info->mtds == NULL) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to allocate mtd storage/n");err = -ENOMEM;goto exit_error;}memset(info->mtds, 0, size);/* initialise all possible chips */nmtd = info->mtds;for (setno = 0; setno < nr_sets; setno++, nmtd++) {//nr_sets = 1pr_debug("initialising set %d (%p, info %p)/n", setno, nmtd, info);//初始化nand_chip中的read_buf,write_buf等函数指针,ecc设置s3c2410_nand_init_chip(info, nmtd, sets); //nand_scan()的第一步(nand_base.c),read ID…nmtd->scan_res = nand_scan_ident(&nmtd->mtd, (sets) ? sets->nr_chips : 1);if (nmtd->scan_res == 0) { //如果使用硬件ecc，根据id信息中的page大小更新ecc设置s3c2410_nand_update_chip(info, nmtd);//nand_scan()的第二步(nand_base.c),给初始化的函数指针默认值，扫描坏块nand_scan_tail(&nmtd->mtd);s3c2410_nand_add_partition(info, nmtd, sets);//添加分区，想mtd注册分区信息}if (sets != NULL)sets++;}err = s3c2410_nand_cpufreq_register(info);if (err < 0) {dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to init cpufreq support/n");goto exit_error;}if (allow_clk_stop(info)) {dev_info(&pdev->dev, "clock idle support enabled/n");clk_disable(info->clk);}pr_debug("initialised ok/n");return 0; exit_error:s3c2410_nand_remove(pdev);if (err == 0)err = -EINVAL;return err;}