Openmoko Bug #2057: 1bit errors in files

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#2057: 1bit errors in files
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 Reporter:  Richard.Kralovic  |          Owner:  openmoko-devel              
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new                         
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:                              
Component:  unknown           |        Version:                              
 Severity:  normal            |       Keywords:  file corruption, 1bit errors
Blockedby:                    |   Reproducible:  rarely                      
 Blocking:                    |  
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 After some time of usage, I notice 1 bit errors in some binaries/libraries
 (affected application crashes, restarting the application does not, help,
 of course). Files are correct after rebooting Neo again; even without
 reflash.

 I experienced this bug with different distributions (FSO, ASU...) and
 different kernels (downloaded Om2008.9-gta02-20080916.uImage.bin, custom
 built uImage-2.6.24+git0+a1e97c611253511ffc2d8c45e3e6d6894fa03fa3-r1.01
 -om-gta02.bin, etc.).

 There is no relevant information in dmesg output. I also added warning
 messages to the software ECC correcting code (drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c)
 to the custom build kernel, but none of them appeared in dmesg.

 The bug is hard to reproduce on demand, but usually occurs after several
 hours/days of usage.

 Observed file corruption was always a single bit flip from 0 to 1, at
 offset 0x????0c2 or 0x????8c2 of the affected file, e.g. as follows:

 < 00008c0: 0200 0200 0000 0000 0300 0300 0100 0000  ................
 ---
 > 00008c0: 0200 2200 0000 0000 0300 0300 0100 0000  ..".............

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