Re: [PATCH V2] wlcore: sdio: Fixup power on/off sequence

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 07:10:02 EST


On 17.01.19 10:54, Ulf Hansson wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 21:26, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote:

On 16.01.19 12:37, Ulf Hansson wrote:
During "wlan-up", we are programming the FW into the WiFi-chip. However,
re-programming the FW doesn't work, unless a power cycle of the WiFi-chip
is made in-between the programmings.

To conform to this requirement and to fix the regression in a simple way,
let's start by allowing that the SDIO card (WiFi-chip) may stay powered on
(runtime resumed) when wl12xx_sdio_power_off() returns. The intent with the
current code is to treat this scenario as an error, but unfortunate this
doesn't work as expected, so let's fix this.

The other part is to guarantee that a power cycle of the SDIO card has been
completed when wl12xx_sdio_power_on() returns, as to allow the FW
programming to succeed. However, relying solely on runtime PM to deal with
this isn't sufficient. For example, userspace may prevent runtime suspend
via sysfs for the device that represents the SDIO card, leading to that the
mmc core also keeps it powered on. For this reason, let's instead do a
brute force power cycle in wl12xx_sdio_power_on().

Fixes: 728a9dc61f13 ("wlcore: sdio: Fix flakey SDIO runtime PM handling")
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Keep the SDIO host claimed when calling mmc_hw_reset().
- Add a fixes tag.
---
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c | 15 +++++++--------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
index bd10165d7eec..4d4b07701149 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ static int wl12xx_sdio_power_on(struct wl12xx_sdio_glue *glue)
}

sdio_claim_host(func);
+ /*
+ * To guarantee that the SDIO card is power cycled, as required to make
+ * the FW programming to succeed, let's do a brute force HW reset.
+ */
+ mmc_hw_reset(card->host);
+
sdio_enable_func(func);
sdio_release_host(func);

@@ -174,20 +180,13 @@ static int wl12xx_sdio_power_off(struct wl12xx_sdio_glue *glue)
{
struct sdio_func *func = dev_to_sdio_func(glue->dev);
struct mmc_card *card = func->card;
- int error;

sdio_claim_host(func);
sdio_disable_func(func);
sdio_release_host(func);

/* Let runtime PM know the card is powered off */
- error = pm_runtime_put(&card->dev);
- if (error < 0 && error != -EBUSY) {
- dev_err(&card->dev, "%s failed: %i\n", __func__, error);
-
- return error;
- }
-
+ pm_runtime_put(&card->dev);
return 0;
}



Just tested on both HiKey (620) and Ultra96 but it fails to fix the issue on
both. I'm getting

wl1271_sdio: probe of mmc2:0001:1 failed with error -16

during boot again, and the interface is not available.

Okay, sounds like this may be a different problem then. Can you share
the complete log and the kernel config?

You can find the config here [1], log from the HiKey boot attached.

I can prepare a debug patch as well, if you are willing to re-run the test?

Sure, send it over, I can run it.


Adding a post-power-on-delay-ms of 1 ms as you suggested [1], doesn't
sounds like the correct solution to me, unless I am overlooking some
things. The point is, since the mmc core succeeds to detect and
initialize the SDIO card, the power sequence seems to be correct.

Yeah, I'm not claiming at all I know what I'm doing there, just that it happens
to work.

Jan

[1]
https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse-images/blob/next/recipes-kernel/linux/files/arm64_defconfig_4.19

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