Hi Enric,
On 04/26/2016 05:03 PM, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> From: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> According to the DesignWare state machine description, after we get a
> "response error" or "response CRC error" we move into data transfer
> mode. That means that we don't necessarily need to special case
> trying to deal with the failure right away. We can wait until we are
> notified that the data transfer is complete (with or without errors)
> and then we can deal with the failure.
>
> It may sound strange to defer dealing with a command that we know will
> fail anyway, but this appears to fix a bug. During tuning (CMD19) on
> a specific card on an rk3288-based system, we found that we could get
> a "response CRC error". Sending the stop command after the "response
> CRC error" would then throw the system into a confused state causing
> all future tuning phases to report failure.
I understood this patch what purpose has.
Does it need to consider for other tuning cases?
Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung
>
> When in the confused state, the controller would show these (hex codes
> are interrupt status register):
> CMD ERR: 0x00000046 (cmd=19)
> CMD ERR: 0x0000004e (cmd=12)
> DATA ERR: 0x00000208
> DATA ERR: 0x0000020c
> CMD ERR: 0x00000104 (cmd=19)
> CMD ERR: 0x00000104 (cmd=12)
> DATA ERR: 0x00000208
> DATA ERR: 0x0000020c
> ...
> ...
>
> It is inherently difficult to deal with the complexity of trying to
> correctly send a stop command while a data transfer is taking place
> since you need to deal with different corner cases caused by the fact
> that the data transfer could complete (with errors or without errors)
> during various places in sending the stop command (dw_mci_stop_dma,
> send_stop_abort, etc)
>
> Instead of adding a bunch of extra complexity to deal with this, it
> seems much simpler to just use the more straightforward (and less
> error-prone) path of letting the data transfer finish. There
> shouldn't be any huge benefit to sending the stop command slightly
> earlier, anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog since v1:
> - Fix the issue found by Alim with exynos letting the data transfer
> take place only when MMC_SEND_TUNING_BLOCK is issued.
>
> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> index 242f9a0..2ebeea8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> @@ -1761,6 +1761,33 @@ static void dw_mci_tasklet_func(unsigned long priv)
> }
>
> if (cmd->data && err) {
> + /*
> + * During UHS tuning sequence, sending the stop
> + * command after the response CRC error would
> + * throw the system into a confused state
> + * causing all future tuning phases to report
> + * failure.
> + *
> + * In such case controller will move into a data
> + * transfer state after a response error or
> + * response CRC error. Let's let that finish
> + * before trying to send a stop, so we'll go to
> + * STATE_SENDING_DATA.
> + *
> + * Although letting the data transfer take place
> + * will waste a bit of time (we already know
> + * the command was bad), it can't cause any
> + * errors since it's possible it would have
> + * taken place anyway if this tasklet got
> + * delayed. Allowing the transfer to take place
> + * avoids races and keeps things simple.
> + */
> + if ((err != -ETIMEDOUT) &&
> + (cmd->opcode == MMC_SEND_TUNING_BLOCK)) {
> + state = STATE_SENDING_DATA;
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> dw_mci_stop_dma(host);
> send_stop_abort(host, data);
> state = STATE_SENDING_STOP;
>
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