Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] brcmfmac: sdio: Disable auto-tuning around commands expected to fail

[Adrian Hunter]

On 7/06/19 8:12 AM, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On June 6, 2019 11:37:22 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> In the case of dw_mmc, which I'm most familiar with, we don't have any
>> sort of automated or timed-based retuning. ...so we'll only re-tune
>> when we see the CRC error. If I'm understanding things correctly then
>> that for dw_mmc my solution and yours behave the same. That means the
>> difference is how we deal with other retuning requests, either ones
>> that come about because of an interrupt that the host controller
>> provided or because of a timer. Did I get that right?
> 
> Right.
> 
>> ...and I guess the reason we have to deal specially with these cases
>> is because any time that SDIO card is "sleeping" we don't want to
>> retune because it won't work. Right? NOTE: the solution that would
>> come to my mind first to solve this would be to hold the retuning for
>> the whole time that the card was sleeping and then release it once the
>> card was awake again. ...but I guess we don't truly need to do that
>> because tuning only happens as a side effect of sending a command to
>> the card and the only command we send to the card is the "wake up"
>> command. That's why your solution to hold tuning while sending the
>> "wake up" command works, right?
> 
> Yup.
> 
>> ---
>>
>> OK, so assuming all the above is correct, I feel like we're actually
>> solving two problems and in fact I believe we actually need both our
>> approaches to solve everything correctly. With just your patch in
>> place there's a problem because we will clobber any external retuning
>> requests that happened while we were waking up the card. AKA, imagine
>> this:
>>
>> A) brcmf_sdio_kso_control(on=True) gets called; need_retune starts as 0
>>
>> B) We call sdio_retune_hold_now()
>>
>> C) A retuning timer goes off or the SD Host controller tells us to retune
>>
>> D) We get to the end of brcmf_sdio_kso_control() and clear the "retune
>> needed" since need_retune was 0 at the start.
>>
>> ...so we dropped the retuning request from C), right?
>>
>>
>> What we truly need is:
>>
>> 1. CRC errors shouldn't trigger a retuning request when we're in
>> brcmf_sdio_kso_control()
>>
>> 2. A separate patch that holds any retuning requests while the SDIO
>> card is off. This patch _shouldn't_ do any clearing of retuning
>> requests, just defer them.
>>
>>
>> Does that make sense to you? If so, I can try to code it up...
> 
> FWIW it does make sense to me. However, I am still not sure if our sdio
> hardware supports retuning. Have to track down an asic designer who can tell
> or dive into vhdl myself.

The card supports re-tuning if is handles CMD19, which it does.  It is not
the card that does any tuning, only the host.  The card just helps by
providing a known data pattern in response to CMD19.  It can be that a card
provides good enough signals that the host should not need to re-tune.  I
don't know if that can be affected by the board design though.