Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-cadence: send tune request twice to work around errata

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Apr 04 2018 - 05:06:34 EST


Hi.

2018-04-04 16:35 GMT+09:00 Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 27 March 2018 at 11:29, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Cadence sent out an errata report to their customers of this IP.
>> This errata is not so severe, but the tune request should be sent
>> twice to avoid the potential issue.
>>
>> Quote from the report:
>>
>> Problem Summary
>> ---------------
>> The IP6116 SD/eMMC PHY design has a timing issue on receive data path.
>> This issue may lead to an incorrect values of read/write pointers of
>> the synchronization FIFO. Such a situation can happen at the SDR104
>> and HS200 tuning procedure when the PHY is requested to change a phase
>> of sampling clock when moving to the next tuning iteration.
>>
>> Workarounds
>> -----------
>> The following are valid workarounds to resolve the issue:
>>
>> 1. In eMMC mode, software sends tune request twice instead of once at
>> each iteration. This means that the clock phase is not changed on
>> the second request so there is no potential for clock instability.
>> 2. In SD mode, software must not use the hardware tuning and instead
>> perform an almost identical procedure to eMMC, using the HRS34 Tune
>> Force register.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Do you want this to be tagged for stable as well? And perhaps you
> could add a fixes tag?


It would be nicer to make it a back-port candidate,
but this patch can not cleanly apply to the initial commit of this driver.


If you apply it for -next, it would be fine with me.






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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada