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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org,
	"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
	Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@infineon.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com,
	Dmitry Lebed <lebed.dmitry@gmail.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
	Wright Feng <wright.feng@infineon.com>,
	Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: brcmfmac and unaligned sdio access on Khadas VIM3L
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:00:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b03a1ae1-2e61-a8cc-ce52-a3bc1613f2bb@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa920eb6-788d-b0b8-c99a-839d73a8c748@baylibre.com>

Hi Neil,

On 07.04.2021 10:45, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> On 10/02/2021 09:52, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>> On 10/02/2021 09:45, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> On 10.02.2021 09:17, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>>>> On 09/02/2021 13:48, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>>> I've noticed that the Broadcom Wifi chip performs unaligned SDIO access
>>>>> during the station scan on Khadas VIM3l board. This issue went unnoticed
>>>>> so far, because there was a workaround in the meson MMC driver, which
>>>>> has been recently disabled by commit e085b51c74cc ("mmc: meson-gx: check
>>>>> for scatterlist size alignment in block mode") from current linux-next.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can easily reproduce this issue with the following commands:
>>>>>
>>>>> # dmesg | grep brcm
>>>>> [   11.659351] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4359C0 'brcm/BCM4359C0.hcd' Patch
>>>>> [   13.079767] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using
>>>>> brcm/brcmfmac4359-sdio for chip BCM4359/9
>>>>> [   13.527363] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using
>>>>> brcm/brcmfmac4359-sdio for chip BCM4359/9
>>>>> [   13.601269] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available
>>>>> (err=-11), device may have limited channels available
>>>>> [   13.619414] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4359/9 wl0:
>>>>> Mar  6 2017 10:16:06 version 9.87.51.7 (r686312) FWID 01-4dcc75d9
>>>>> # ifconfig wlan0 up
>>>>> [  208.052058] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_dongle_roam: WLC_SET_ROAM_TRIGGER
>>>>> error (-52)
>>>>> # iw wlan0 scan >/dev/null
>>>>> [  218.148345] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>> [  218.148501] unaligned sg len 504 blksize 256
>>>>> [  218.153712] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 75 at
>>>>> drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c:251
>>>>> meson_mmc_get_transfer_mode.isra.10+0xf8/0x130
>>>>> [  218.162616] Modules linked in: ipv6 brcmfmac brcmutil cfg80211
>>>>> dw_hdmi_cec dw_hdmi_i2s_audio hci_uart btqca btbcm bluetooth
>>>>> ecdh_generic ecc crct10dif_ce rfkill panfrost
>>>>> snd_soc_meson_axg_sound_card snd_soc_meson_card_utils gpu_sched
>>>>> meson_gxbb_wdt rtc_hym8563 pwm_meson meson_gxl rtc_meson_vrtc rc_khadas
>>>>> meson_ir reset_meson_audio_arb realtek snd_soc_meson_g12a_tohdmitx
>>>>> snd_soc_meson_codec_glue snd_soc_meson_axg_tdmout
>>>>> snd_soc_meson_axg_frddr snd_soc_meson_axg_fifo axg_audio sclk_div
>>>>> clk_phase mdio_mux_meson_g12a meson_dw_hdmi meson_drm meson_rng
>>>>> dwmac_generic snd_soc_meson_axg_tdm_interface meson_canvas rng_core
>>>>> dw_hdmi snd_soc_meson_axg_tdm_formatter dwmac_meson8b stmmac_platform
>>>>> stmmac display_connector adc_keys pcs_xpcs nvmem_meson_efuse
>>>>> [  218.228329] CPU: 1 PID: 75 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted
>>>>> 5.11.0-rc6-next-20210208 #2492
>>>>> [  218.236343] Hardware name: Khadas VIM3L (DT)
>>>>> [  218.240579] Workqueue: brcmf_wq/mmc2:0001:1 brcmf_sdio_dataworker
>>>>> [brcmfmac]
>>>>> [  218.247559] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
>>>>> [  218.253506] pc : meson_mmc_get_transfer_mode.isra.10+0xf8/0x130
>>>>> [  218.259372] lr : meson_mmc_get_transfer_mode.isra.10+0xf8/0x130
>>>>> [  218.265237] sp : ffff80001327b870
>>>>> [  218.268514] x29: ffff80001327b870 x28: 0000000000000003
>>>>> [  218.273776] x27: 0000000000000218 x26: 0000000000000600
>>>>> [  218.279036] x25: ffff000003a17678 x24: 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.284296] x23: ffff8000121cfae8 x22: ffff800011b54000
>>>>> [  218.289559] x21: ffff80001327bb18 x20: ffff00000277d000
>>>>> [  218.294819] x19: ffff80001327ba40 x18: 00000002faf07f80
>>>>> [  218.300081] x17: 0000000000004000 x16: 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.305341] x15: 0000000000000380 x14: 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.310603] x13: 0000000000000080 x12: 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.315865] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000001370
>>>>> [  218.321125] x9 : ffff00006f995258 x8 : 000000009e0e7ca7
>>>>> [  218.326387] x7 : ffff80001327b4a0 x6 : 0000000000000001
>>>>> [  218.331648] x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.336912] x3 : 0000000000000002 x2 : ffff8000121f4768
>>>>> [  218.342171] x1 : 42fe1bd05e5eaa00 x0 : 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  218.347435] Call trace:
>>>>> [  218.349854]  meson_mmc_get_transfer_mode.isra.10+0xf8/0x130
>>>>> [  218.355368]  meson_mmc_request+0x74/0xb0
>>>>> [  218.359250]  __mmc_start_request+0xa4/0x2b0
>>>>> [  218.363390]  mmc_start_request+0x80/0xa8
>>>>> [  218.367272]  mmc_wait_for_req+0x68/0xd8
>>>>> [  218.371066]  mmc_submit_one.isra.17+0x78/0x148 [brcmfmac]
>>>>> [  218.376416]  brcmf_sdiod_sglist_rw+0x324/0x4a8 [brcmfmac]
>>>>> [  218.381762]  brcmf_sdiod_recv_chain+0x70/0x140 [brcmfmac]
>>>>> [  218.387110]  brcmf_sdio_dataworker+0x614/0x17d0 [brcmfmac]
>>>>> [  218.392545]  process_one_work+0x2a8/0x728
>>>>> [  218.396510]  worker_thread+0x48/0x460
>>>>> [  218.400132]  kthread+0x134/0x160
>>>>> [  218.403323]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>>>>> [  218.406862] irq event stamp: 15834
>>>>> [  218.410222] hardirqs last  enabled at (15833): [<ffff800010f95804>]
>>>>> _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x3c/0x80
>>>>> [  218.419107] hardirqs last disabled at (15834): [<ffff800010f895ac>]
>>>>> el1_dbg+0x24/0x50
>>>>> [  218.426869] softirqs last  enabled at (15828): [<ffff800010010508>]
>>>>> _stext+0x508/0x638
>>>>> [  218.434717] softirqs last disabled at (15823): [<ffff8000100952ec>]
>>>>> irq_exit+0x19c/0x1a8
>>>>> [  218.442739] ---[ end trace dfc38bb4458b4c37 ]---
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> Surprisingly the same commands executed on the Khadas VIM3 board with
>>>>> the same kernel don't trigger the warning.
>>>> This may be because the VIM3 (G12A & G12B) has a broken SDIO controller using
>>>> an internal SRAM as bounce buffer instead of the scatter/gather DMA, cf amlogic,dram-access-quirk.
>>> Good to know, this explains why it works without an issue on VIM3.
>>>>> Let me know if I can help debugging this issue.
>>>> Simply remove the WARN_ONCE()...
>>> Well, that WARN is not a big issue for me. I just wanted to help fixing
>>> the real issue. If I understand right, the brcmfmac driver queues
>>> incorrectly prepared sd list for the given transfer mode, what should be
>>> fixed there.
>> I think the issue comes from brcmfmac that should not provide unaligned data,
>> but I think it's a global issue where these kind of details aren't specified/enforced.
>>
>>> On the other hand, if this is just a limitation of the meson mmc
>>> controller on SM1/VIM3l, then imho there should not be a WARN there and
>>> maybe the mentioned 'amlogic,dram-access-quirk' could be used to fix the
>>> issue on VIM3l too. I've checked and it indeed 'fixes' the issue on that
>>> board.
>> This fix severely limits the performance so it's not a good fix here,
>> the only fix I see here is to remove the WARN because the fact is that the DMA cannot handle
>> unaligned data, and the SDIO device drivers should be fixed in order to achieve max
>> performance on SDIO host drivers with DMA (it's usual to not support unaligned data
>> when dealing with a DMA).
> Do you plan to remove the warning ? I can push a quick patch if not.

Feel free to send such 'fix'. I thought I would have some spare time to 
dig in the brcmfmac driver to fix the real source of the problem, but it 
turned out opposite...

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20210209124819eucas1p29c9b481ef524a753ce79aa6ab580d0a7@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2021-02-09 12:48 ` brcmfmac and unaligned sdio access on Khadas VIM3L Marek Szyprowski
2021-02-10  8:17   ` Neil Armstrong
2021-02-10  8:45     ` Marek Szyprowski
2021-02-10  8:52       ` Neil Armstrong
2021-04-07  8:45         ` Neil Armstrong
2021-04-07 10:00           ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]

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