Hi Holger, Adding some more folks on Cc. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed in a kernel 4.0.7 that I loose CAN packets when an incoming > rsync transfer changes my eMMC or SD-Card image. I used CONFIG_FRACE > to find why this is the case, and came to this trace: > > # tracer: preemptoff > # > # preemptoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 4.0.7 > # -------------------------------------------------------------------- > # latency: 1046 us, #756/756, CPU#2 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4) > # ----------------- > # | task: mmcqd/0-76 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) > # ----------------- > # => started at: sdhci_do_set_ios > # => ended at: sdhci_do_set_ios > # > # > # _------=> CPU# > # / _-----=> irqs-off > # | / _----=> need-resched > # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq > # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth > # |||| / delay > # cmd pid ||||| time | caller > # \ / ||||| \ | / > mmcqd/0-76 2d..1 1us : _raw_spin_lock_irq <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 2us : esdhc_writeb_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 4us : esdhc_pltfm_set_bus_width <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 5us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_pltfm_set_bus_width > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 7us : esdhc_writeb_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 9us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writeb_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 10us : esdhc_readw_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 12us : esdhc_writew_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 14us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writew_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 16us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writew_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 18us : esdhc_readw_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 19us : esdhc_writew_le <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 21us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writew_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 22us : esdhc_set_uhs_signaling <-sdhci_do_set_ios > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 24us : pinctrl_select_state <-esdhc_set_uhs_signaling > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 26us : esdhc_readl_le <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 28us : esdhc_writel_le <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 29us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writel_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 31us : esdhc_readl_le <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 33us : esdhc_writel_le <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 34us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_writel_le > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 36us : l2c210_sync <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 37us : __timer_const_udelay <-esdhc_pltfm_set_clock > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 39us : __timer_delay <-__timer_const_udelay > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 40us : read_current_timer <-__timer_delay > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 41us : imx_read_current_timer <-read_current_timer > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 43us : read_current_timer <-__timer_delay > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 44us : imx_read_current_timer <-read_current_timer > mmcqd/0-76 2d..2 45us : read_current_timer <-__timer_delay > .... > > So it seems that esdhc_pltfm_set_clock() somehow waits. And really > there is an mdelay(1) there. So it waits a whopping millisecond there! > > What's worse: I put a printk() into this function, just before the > mdelay(). And it get's called hundreds of times when I boot, or when I > update via rsync. And I believe that for each call the mdelay() kills > preemption. > > This is bad because in the FlexCAN driver the ISR calls > napi_schedule(), which in turn clears the CAN RxFIFO. And if this > scheduling is taking too long, CAN packets are dropped. With 50 bits > per CAN packet anf 500000 bit/s this can happen quite easily (the > RxFIFO is a hardware component that can hold only 6 CAN frames before > data is lost). > > The mdelay() is also bad because it makes eMMC/SD-Card access WAY > slower than they could be. > > I'm not firm with SDHCI, I only see that esdhc_pltfm_set_clock() is > all the time called with 0 Hz and then with 20000000 Hz. Any tips on > how to get rid of this clock-off-clock-on dance? > > Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html