Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: core: Improve marking broken HPI through devicetree

From: Olliver Schinagl
Date: Tue Apr 19 2016 - 08:45:19 EST


Hey Hans,

On 19-04-16 13:22, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 19-04-16 11:42, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
Hi Ulf,

On 19-04-16 11:29, Ulf Hansson wrote:
On 19 April 2016 at 09:12, Olliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In patch 81f8a7be66 Hans de Goede added a patch to allow marking an mmc
device as to having an broken HPI implementation. After talking some
with Hans, we now think it is actually the mmc controller that can be
broken and not support broken HPI's.
>>
I don't want us to invent a DT binding for something you *think* is a
HW controller issue.

I agree we should not add a dt flag for this, we can simply set the
flag in the host driver if we believe this is a host issue.
Okay, I can remove the dt flag

Have you really excluded that this isn't a software issue? Me
personally haven't been using HPI that much so I can't really tell
about the code robustness from the mmc core (mmc protocol point of
view).
Well this patch goes hand in hand so to speak with the broken-hpi patch introduced by him, he did most of the investigation. We just discussed how to handle it and asked me to cook up the patch.

@hans, what do you think?

When we discussed this a while back we had a pretty small sample
set of sunxi boards with emmc, and it seemed that hpi was broken
on all of them. But recently we've been seeing eMMC-s on a lot more
boards and they all work fine, except the one on my Utoo A13 tablets,
and the one you are using, so this does really seem be an eMMC
specific problem. That or it is a problem with the host on sun4i/sun5i/sun7i
which is not present on sun6i, sun8i and later ...
Well I think we still have a very small sample size, the sun4i, sun5i and sun7i boards (all using the same mmc controller afaik) have the broken-hpi set, the sun6i and sun8i seem to be working fine (different mmc controller?).
I'm not so sure it is an eMMC specific problem though. The module we're using is a high-end micron part, industrial grade. Granted, it could be still broken there, but I find it less likely. Micron has an interessting technical document:
"TN-52-05 e.EMMC Linux Enablement"
talking specifically about HPI on eMMC.
It also mentions HPI is a mmc/jedic 4.41 thing, afaik our controller is only 4.3 (which might not even matter according to Ulf if it is just a command).

The datasheet of the chip I use, MTFC4GACAANA, also mentions explicitly that it supports HPI.

Granted, it could still be broken, but I have doubts.


But given how rare eMMC-s are on sun4i/sun5i/sun7i I think the current
solution where we set a flag on the emmc dt node rather then on the
host node / in the host driver is fine.
Yeah it is very limited, that is true, and I suppose I can live with that.

Taking your case into account too, that will bring us up to 2 cases
where we set the broken-hpi flag on the emmc node, which does not
really seem like a number to worry about.
Actually, 4 :), there are 3 sun5i (tablets?) devices that suffer from this and my device now. The sun6i and sun8i devices are only 2 (the sinlinx devices in the current kernel) that a very quick grep (mmc-card ) showed. Grepping for non-removable yielded a bit more, like the chip sun5i-like device with a "non-removable" mmc, not sure what to make of that though.

TL;DR: Thanks for writing this patch set, but given recent developments
I believe that it is best to keep handling broken-hpi as we are doing
in current kernels and no changes are necessary.
I would still recommend to add the capability and raise the flag for the sun[457]i devices though, as my gut thinks it's a problem with the sunxi IP there. But with the emmc-card level work around, it does solve/fix it, so what is the best way?

Olliver

Regards,

Hans



Kind regards
Uffe

This patch adds a new capability, mmc-broken-hpi, which allows us to
mark a broken hpi implementation on the host level.

Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/core/host.c | 2 ++
drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c | 2 +-
include/linux/mmc/host.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
index 6e4c55a..9b63b36 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ int mmc_of_parse(struct mmc_host *host)
host->caps |= MMC_CAP_HW_RESET;
if (of_property_read_bool(np, "cap-sdio-irq"))
host->caps |= MMC_CAP_SDIO_IRQ;
+ if (of_property_read_bool(np, "mmc-broken-hpi"))
+ host->caps |= MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI;
if (of_property_read_bool(np, "full-pwr-cycle"))
host->caps2 |= MMC_CAP2_FULL_PWR_CYCLE;
if (of_property_read_bool(np, "keep-power-in-suspend"))
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
index 4dbe3df..9a19562 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ static int mmc_init_card(struct mmc_host *host, u32 ocr,
/*
* Enable HPI feature (if supported)
*/
- if (card->ext_csd.hpi) {
+ if (card->ext_csd.hpi && !(host->caps & MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI)) {
err = mmc_switch(card, EXT_CSD_CMD_SET_NORMAL,
EXT_CSD_HPI_MGMT, 1,
card->ext_csd.generic_cmd6_time);
diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
index 8dd4d29..20f758e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ struct mmc_host {
#define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_A (1 << 23) /* Host supports Driver Type A */
#define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_C (1 << 24) /* Host supports Driver Type C */
#define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_D (1 << 25) /* Host supports Driver Type D */
+#define MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI (1 << 29) /* Host support for HPI is broken */
#define MMC_CAP_CMD23 (1 << 30) /* CMD23 supported. */
#define MMC_CAP_HW_RESET (1 << 31) /* Hardware reset */

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