Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: core: Improve marking broken HPI through devicetree

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 19-04-16 11:42, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
>
> On 19-04-16 11:29, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 19 April 2016 at 09:12, Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl> wrote:
>>> In patch 81f8a7be66 Hans de Goede added a patch to allow marking an mmc
>>> device as to having an broken HPI implementation. After talking some
>>> with Hans, we now think it is actually the mmc controller that can be
>>> broken and not support broken HPI's.
 >>
>> I don't want us to invent a DT binding for something you *think* is a
>> HW controller issue.

I agree we should not add a dt flag for this, we can simply set the
flag in the host driver if we believe this is a host issue.

>> Have you really excluded that this isn't a software issue? Me
>> personally haven't been using HPI that much so I can't really tell
>> about the code robustness from the mmc core (mmc protocol point of
>> view).
> Well this patch goes hand in hand so to speak with the broken-hpi patch introduced by him, he did most of the investigation. We just discussed how to handle it and asked me to cook up the patch.
>
> @hans, what do you think?

When we discussed this a while back we had a pretty small sample
set of sunxi boards with emmc, and it seemed that hpi was broken
on all of them. But recently we've been seeing eMMC-s on a lot more
boards and they all work fine, except the one on my Utoo A13 tablets,
and the one you are using, so this does really seem be an eMMC
specific problem. That or it is a problem with the host on sun4i/sun5i/sun7i
which is not present on sun6i, sun8i and later ...

But given how rare eMMC-s are on sun4i/sun5i/sun7i I think the current
solution where we set a flag on the emmc dt node rather then on the
host node / in the host driver is fine.

Taking your case into account too, that will bring us up to 2 cases
where we set the broken-hpi flag on the emmc node, which does not
really seem like a number to worry about.

TL;DR: Thanks for writing this patch set, but given recent developments
I believe that it is best to keep handling broken-hpi as we are doing
in current kernels and no changes are necessary.

Regards,

Hans


>>
>> Kind regards
>> Uffe
>>
>>> This patch adds a new capability, mmc-broken-hpi, which allows us to
>>> mark a broken hpi implementation on the host level.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/mmc/core/host.c  | 2 ++
>>>   drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c   | 2 +-
>>>   include/linux/mmc/host.h | 1 +
>>>   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
>>> index 6e4c55a..9b63b36 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
>>> @@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ int mmc_of_parse(struct mmc_host *host)
>>>                  host->caps |= MMC_CAP_HW_RESET;
>>>          if (of_property_read_bool(np, "cap-sdio-irq"))
>>>                  host->caps |= MMC_CAP_SDIO_IRQ;
>>> +       if (of_property_read_bool(np, "mmc-broken-hpi"))
>>> +               host->caps |= MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI;
>>>          if (of_property_read_bool(np, "full-pwr-cycle"))
>>>                  host->caps2 |= MMC_CAP2_FULL_PWR_CYCLE;
>>>          if (of_property_read_bool(np, "keep-power-in-suspend"))
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
>>> index 4dbe3df..9a19562 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c
>>> @@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ static int mmc_init_card(struct mmc_host *host, u32 ocr,
>>>          /*
>>>           * Enable HPI feature (if supported)
>>>           */
>>> -       if (card->ext_csd.hpi) {
>>> +       if (card->ext_csd.hpi && !(host->caps & MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI)) {
>>>                  err = mmc_switch(card, EXT_CSD_CMD_SET_NORMAL,
>>>                                  EXT_CSD_HPI_MGMT, 1,
>>>                                  card->ext_csd.generic_cmd6_time);
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
>>> index 8dd4d29..20f758e 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
>>> @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ struct mmc_host {
>>>   #define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_A  (1 << 23)       /* Host supports Driver Type A */
>>>   #define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_C  (1 << 24)       /* Host supports Driver Type C */
>>>   #define MMC_CAP_DRIVER_TYPE_D  (1 << 25)       /* Host supports Driver Type D */
>>> +#define MMC_CAP_BROKEN_HPI     (1 << 29)       /* Host support for HPI is broken */
>>>   #define MMC_CAP_CMD23          (1 << 30)       /* CMD23 supported. */
>>>   #define MMC_CAP_HW_RESET       (1 << 31)       /* Hardware reset */
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.8.0.rc3
>>>
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