Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-xenon: fix 1.8v regulator stabilization

From: Pali Rohár
Date: Tue Mar 15 2022 - 19:03:45 EST


Hello!

On Monday 14 March 2022 16:51:25 Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Hi Pali,
>
>
> pon., 14 mar 2022 o 16:40 Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Monday 11 January 2021 19:06:24 Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 15:17, Marcin Wojtas <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Alex Leibovich <alexl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Automatic Clock Gating is a feature used for the power
> > > > consumption optimisation. It turned out that
> > > > during early init phase it may prevent the stable voltage
> > > > switch to 1.8V - due to that on some platfroms an endless
> > > > printout in dmesg can be observed:
> > > > "mmc1: 1.8V regulator output did not became stable"
> > > > Fix the problem by disabling the ACG at very beginning
> > > > of the sdhci_init and let that be enabled later.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 3a3748dba881 ("mmc: sdhci-xenon: Add Marvell Xenon SDHC core functionality")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Leibovich <alexl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Applied for fixes (by fixing the typos), thanks!
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is not this patch address same issue which was fixed by patch which was
> > merged earlier?
> >
> > bb32e1987bc5 ("mmc: sdhci-xenon: fix annoying 1.8V regulator warning")
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mmc/CAPDyKFqAsvgAjfL-c9ukFNWeGJmufQosR2Eg9SKjXMVpNitdkA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
>
> This indeed look similar. This fix was originally developed for CN913x
> platform without the mentioned patch (I'm wondering if it would also
> suffice to fix A3k board's problem). Anyway, I don't think we have an
> issue here, as everything seems to work fine on top of mainline Linux
> with both changes.

Yea, there should be no issue. Just question is if we need _both_ fixes.

I could probably try to revert bb32e1987bc5 and check what happens on
A3k board.

> Best regards,
> Marcin
>
> > > Kind regards
> > > Uffe
> > >
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c | 7 ++++++-
> > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c
> > > > index c67611fdaa8a..4b05f6fdefb4 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c
> > > > @@ -168,7 +168,12 @@ static void xenon_reset_exit(struct sdhci_host *host,
> > > > /* Disable tuning request and auto-retuning again */
> > > > xenon_retune_setup(host);
> > > >
> > > > - xenon_set_acg(host, true);
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * The ACG should be turned off at the early init time, in order
> > > > + * to solve a possile issues with the 1.8V regulator stabilization.
> > > > + * The feature is enabled in later stage.
> > > > + */
> > > > + xenon_set_acg(host, false);
> > > >
> > > > xenon_set_sdclk_off_idle(host, sdhc_id, false);
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.29.0
> > > >