Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: mmci: enable MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY

From: Yann Gautier
Date: Tue Feb 09 2021 - 09:03:06 EST


On 2/8/21 4:03 PM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 13:16, Yann GAUTIER <yann.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/5/21 1:19 PM, Yann GAUTIER wrote:
On 2/5/21 10:53 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
- trimmed cc-list

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 13:08, <yann.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To properly manage commands awaiting R1B responses, the capability
MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY is enabled in mmci driver, for variants that
manage busy detection.
This R1B management needs both the flags MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY and
MMC_CAP_WAIT_WHILE_BUSY to be enabled together.

Would it be possible for you to share a little bit more about the
problem? Like under what circumstances does things screw up?

Is the issue only occurring when the cmd->busy_timeout becomes larger
than host->max_busy_timeout. Or even in other cases?


Signed-off-by: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c
index 1bc674577ff9..bf6971fdd1a6 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c
@@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ static int mmci_probe(struct amba_device *dev,
if (variant->busy_dpsm_flag)
mmci_write_datactrlreg(host,

host->variant->busy_dpsm_flag);
- mmc->caps |= MMC_CAP_WAIT_WHILE_BUSY;
+ mmc->caps |= MMC_CAP_WAIT_WHILE_BUSY |
MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY;

This isn't correct as the ux500 (and likely also other legacy
variants) don't need this. I have tried it in the past and it works
fine for ux500 without MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY.

The difference is rather that the busy detection for stm32 variants
needs a corresponding HW busy timeout to be set (its
variant->busy_timeout flag is set). Perhaps we can use that
information instead?

Note that, MMC_CAP_NEED_RSP_BUSY, means that cmd->busy_timeout will
not be set by the core for erase commands, CMD5 and CMD6.

By looking at the code in mmci_start_command(), it looks like we will
default to a timeout of 10s, when cmd->busy_timeout isn't set. At
least for some erase requests, that won't be sufficient. Would it be
possible to disable the HW busy timeout in some way - and maybe use a
software timeout instead? Maybe I already asked Ludovic about this?
:-)

BTW, did you check that the MMCIDATATIMER does get the correct value
set for the timer in mmci_start_command() and if
host->max_busy_timeout gets correctly set in
mmci_set_max_busy_timeout()?

[...]

Kind regards
Uffe


Hi Ulf,

Thanks for the hints.
I'll check all of that and get back with updated patches.

As I tried to explain in the cover letter and in reply to Adrian, I saw
a freeze (BUSYD0) in test 37 during MMC_ERASE command with
SECURE_ERASE_ARG, when running this test just after test 36 (or any
other write test). But maybe, as you said that's mostly a incorrect
timeout issue.

Regards,
Yann

Hi,

I made some extra tests, and the timeout value set in MMCIDATATIMER
correspond to the one computed:
card->ext_csd.erase_group_def is set to 1 in mmc_init_card()
In mmc_mmc_erase_timeout(), we have:
erase_timeout = card->ext_csd.hc_erase_timeout; // 300ms * 0x07 (for the
eMMC card I have: THGBMDG5D1LBAIL
erase_timeout *= card->ext_csd.sec_erase_mult; // 0xDC
erase_timeout *= qty; // 32 (from = 0x1d0000, to = 0x20ffff)

This leads to a timeout of 14784000ms (~4 hours).
The max_busy_timeout is 86767ms.

After those 4 hours, I get this message:
mmc1: Card stuck being busy! __mmc_poll_for_busy

Okay, I see.

This means that we end up polling for busy in __mmc_poll_for_busy().
However, not by using CMD13 but rather with the ->card_busy() ops (as
mmci has this callback set).

Could it be that the ->card_busy() callback isn't working correctly
for the stm32 variant?

What happens if you temporarily drop the assignment of the
->card_busy() callback, thus force the mmc core to poll with CMD13
instead? Would this work?


Hi Ulf,

When ->card_busy() is stubbed for MMC_ERASE command, CMD13 is running in loop, for ~66 seconds.
The card status is just 0xe00 here, no errors, just prog state, as awaited for CMD38, and READY_FOR_DATA bit not set.
And after those 66 seconds, the status changes to 0x900.
But busyd0 is still set to 1, during the CMD13 and after.
The test continues, with a CMD25, still with busyd0 and DPSM so the IP is stuck, and the STOP command is sent (mrq->stop in mmc_mrq_pr_debug).
And here nothing more happens, wait_for_completion() from mmc_wait_for_req_done().


The second erase with MMC_ERASE_ARG finds an erase timeout of 67200ms,
and uses R1B command.
But as the first erase failed, the DPSMACT is still enabled, the busy
timeout doesn't seem to happen. Something may be missing in the error path.

Assuming the eMMC card completed the first erase operation
successfully, then yes, the second erase should work.

However, what if the eMMC actually failed with the first erase? How can we know?

In the case where ->card_busy() is used:
As busyd0 is still 1 in the STATUS register, we cannot know if the command really finished. And as the DPSM is stuck, we cannot send other read command to check what is on the card.

As I said in another thread:
"I've discussed with Ludovic, and it is somewhat related to this patch set:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mmc/list/?series=186219&state=%2A&archive=both

The STM32 SDMMC IP needs a specific reset procedure when a data timeout occurs. If it is hardware, this is managed with the threaded IRQ. But if it is a SW polling (if R1B is replaced with R1), there is nothing in frameworks that could call this "unstuck" procedure for STM32 variant.
I don't know how this should be handled."

Are there other things I should check?

The main issue here is that we cannot use R1B if timeout > mmc->max_busy_timeout, and SW polling won't be able to call our reset procedure in case of trouble.

The second patch in the series, changing the MMC_ERASE argument from MMC_SECURE_ERASE_ARG to the argument chosen in the framework will then compute a timeout lower than mmc->max_busy_timeout, and the test will pass.
But this does not explain why STM32 SDMMC IP doesn't react well to this secure argument after it has executed a write test.


Thanks,
Yann



Anyway, I'll push an update of the second patch of the series, and just
drop this first one.


Regards,
Yann

Kind regards
Uffe