[PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: set F2 blocksize to 256 for BCM43752

From: LiangCheng Wang

Date: Mon Jul 13 2026 - 04:57:08 EST


The BCM43752 is not reliable with the default 512-byte SDIO function 2
block size: on an i.MX8MP board with an AMPAK AP6275S module at
SDR104 / 200 MHz, an iperf TX stress test kills WLAN within seconds:

mmc_submit_one: CMD53 sg block write failed -84
brcmf_sdio_dpc: failed backplane access over SDIO, halting operation

Commit d2587c57ffd8 ("brcmfmac: add 43752 SDIO ids and initialization")
set up the 43752 like the 4373 for the F2 watermark but missed the F2
block size, which the 4373 limits to 256 bytes. The vendor driver
(bcmdhd) also programs a 256-byte F2 block size for this chip and runs
the same hardware without errors.

Group the 43752 with the 4373, matching the F2 watermark handling.
With this change a 10-minute bidirectional iperf3 soak completes with
zero SDIO errors at ~270 Mbit/s in each direction.

Fixes: d2587c57ffd8 ("brcmfmac: add 43752 SDIO ids and initialization")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # <= 6.16 needs the CYPRESS_43752 id name
Signed-off-by: LiangCheng Wang <zaq14760@xxxxxxxxx>
---
The failure was isolated by testing combinations of scatter-gather
support and F2 block size, all at SDR104 / 200 MHz, with an iperf
multi-stream stress test plus a 5-10 minute bidirectional iperf3 soak:

sg/glom F2 blksz result
on 512 fatal halt within seconds (CMD53 write -84,
"failed backplane access", wlan dead)
txglom off, 512 survives, but ~14 recoverable CMD53 errors/min
rx glom on
off 512 firmware PSM watchdog reset after ~3 minutes
off 256 0 errors, but TX limited to ~142 Mbit/s
on 256 0 errors, RX 265 / TX 273 Mbit/s (this patch)

So the corruption tracks the 512-byte block size, not scatter-gather;
glomming only amplifies it. The vendor bcmdhd driver logging "set
sd_f2_blocksize 256" at probe is what pointed at the missing override.

The BCM43751 shares the 43752 firmware handling and F2 watermark case
and may need the same fix, but I have no 43751 hardware to verify.

Tested on:
- i.MX8MP (usdhc SDIO host, AMPAK AP6275S module) with Linux kernel
6.12.34 plus this patch

The touched code is unchanged between 6.12 and the current tree apart
from the 74e2ef72bd4b ("wifi: brcmfmac: fix 43752 SDIO FWVID
incorrectly labelled as Cypress (CYW)") rename; stable trees before it
need the old SDIO_DEVICE_ID_BROADCOM_CYPRESS_43752 name to build.
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
index d24b80e492e084160e1d085b8c20242de3e07c28..3f7a05c4d27ad4c284a6ecc7f0b014a1e985526d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
@@ -911,6 +911,7 @@ int brcmf_sdiod_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
return ret;
}
switch (sdiodev->func2->device) {
+ case SDIO_DEVICE_ID_BROADCOM_43752:
case SDIO_DEVICE_ID_BROADCOM_CYPRESS_4373:
f2_blksz = SDIO_4373_FUNC2_BLOCKSIZE;
break;

---
base-commit: a13c140cc289c0b7b3770bce5b3ad42ab35074aa
change-id: 20260713-b43752-f2-blksz-efda1de3ede9

Best regards,
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LiangCheng Wang <zaq14760@xxxxxxxxx>