Re: [PATCH] mmc: mmci_sdmmc: fix power on issue due to pwr_reg initialization

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 05:26:14 EST


On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 18:18, Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch fix a power-on issue, and avoid to retry the power sequence.
>
> In power off sequence: sdmmc must set pwr_reg in "power-cycle" state
> (value 0x2), to prevent the card from being supplied through the signal
> lines (all the lines are driven low).
>
> In power on sequence: when the power is stable, sdmmc must set pwr_reg
> in "power-off" state (value 0x0) to drive all signal to high before to
> set "power-on".

Just a question to gain further understanding.

Let's assume that the controller is a power-on state, because it's
been initialized by the boot loader. When the mmc core then starts the
power-on sequence (not doing a power-off first), would $subject patch
then cause the
MMCIPOWER to remain as is, or is it going to be overwritten?

I am a little worried that we may start to rely on boot loader
conditions, which isn't really what we want either...

>
> To avoid writing the same value to the power register several times, this
> register is cached by the pwr_reg variable. At probe pwr_reg is initialized
> to 0 by kzalloc of mmc_alloc_host.
>
> Like pwr_reg value is 0 at probing, the power on sequence fail because
> the "power-off" state is not writes (value 0x0) and the lines
> remain drive to low.
>
> This patch initializes "pwr_reg" variable with power register value.
> This it done in sdmmc variant init to not disturb default mmci behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@xxxxxx>

Besides the comment, the code and the approach seems reasonable to me.

Kind regards
Uffe

> ---
>
> This patch is the proposal from:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11457987/
>
> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/mmci_stm32_sdmmc.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci_stm32_sdmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci_stm32_sdmmc.c
> index d33e62bd6153..14f99d8aa3f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci_stm32_sdmmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci_stm32_sdmmc.c
> @@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ void sdmmc_variant_init(struct mmci_host *host)
> struct sdmmc_dlyb *dlyb;
>
> host->ops = &sdmmc_variant_ops;
> + host->pwr_reg = readl_relaxed(host->base + MMCIPOWER);
>
> base_dlyb = devm_of_iomap(mmc_dev(host->mmc), np, 1, NULL);
> if (IS_ERR(base_dlyb))
> --
> 2.17.1
>