Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-brcmstb: Add SDHCI_QUIRK2_BROKEN_64_BIT_DMA

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On Aug 28, 2016, at 4:56 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 26/08/2016 à 21:02, Jaedon Shin a écrit :
>> Hi Florian,
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:41 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 08/19/2016 07:05 AM, Jaedon Shin wrote:
>>>> Hi Ulf,
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:44 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 19 August 2016 at 04:25, Jaedon Shin <jaedon.shin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 11:27 PM, Alan Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It would be better to make this a MIPS only setting because this issue
>>>>>>> only exists for MIPS chips and some newer ARM chips will support 64
>>>>>>> bit DMA.
>>>>>>> Also, since there's been a general effort to reduce the use QUIRKs,
>>>>>>> you could clear the SDHCI_CAN_64BIT in CAPS1 instead of using the
>>>>>>> QUIRK.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ static int sdhci_brcmstb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>>>     host->caps1 = sdhci_readl(host, SDHCI_CAPABILITIES_1);
>>>>>>>     host->caps1 &= ~(SDHCI_SUPPORT_SDR50 | SDHCI_SUPPORT_SDR104 |
>>>>>>>                     SDHCI_SUPPORT_DDR50);
>>>>>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MIPS)
>>>>>>> +       host->caps1 &= ~SDHCI_CAN_64BIT;
>>>>>>> +#endif
>>>>>>>     host->quirks |= SDHCI_QUIRK_MISSING_CAPS |
>>>>>>>             SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_TIMEOUT_VAL;
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's better to me, but we should use host->cap instead of host->cap1. I will update
>>>>>> patch with your comment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please, then also send this to the public linux-mmc list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>> Uffe
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sorry I could not add the public linux-mmc list this mail thread, but 
>>>> I have already sent the updated patch with linux-mmc.
>>>> 
>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9289189/
>>> 
>>> Humm, is not this one of these cases where we would expect the
>>> compatible string to dictacte whether enabling 64_BIT_DMA makes sense or
>>> not?
>>> 
>>> The patch is technically correct though.
> 
> Hi Jaedon,
> 
>> 
>> Yes, It's right way that uses host->cap according to the previous discussion
>> for this driver and commit 5eaa7476f937 ("mmc: sdhci: Allow CAPS check for 
>> SDHCI_CAN_64BIT to use overridden caps").
>> 
>> If the 64bit ARM chipsets have own compatible string, the patch like as below
>> 
>> 	if (of_device_is_compatible(pdev->dev.of_node, "brcm,bcm7425-sdhci"))
>> 		host->caps &= ~SDHCI_CAN_64BIT;
>> 
>> Could you tell me the some newer 64bit ARM chipsets have possible own compatible
>> string?
> 
> All ARM 32-bit brcmstb chips are LPAE capable, which means that the
> SDHCI controller may have to deal with bus addresses larger than
> 32-bits, so we always need SDHCI_CAN_64BIT to be set for that to happen
> and work correctly.
> 
> On ARM 64-bit brcmstb chips, we may not have enough memory such that the
> SDHCI controller needs to deal with > 32-bits bus addresses, but same
> thing, this may happen and the controller is fully capable of, so we
> also need SDHCI_CAN_64BIT.
> 
> In both cases, the controller should be fully operational with > 32-bits
> physical addresses.
> 
> On BMIPS chips, we should probably clear SDHCI_CAN_64BIT because AFAIR,
> it really is broken (Al, can you confirm?), but at the same time, the
> DMA-API should never hand us buffers which exceed the 32-bits bus
> address boundary because of the processor and chip memory map
> limitations anyway, is that what you encountered though?
> 
> At the moment, brcm,bcm7425-sdhci is used across all 3 types of SoCs
> (BMIPS, ARM and ARM64) while we should probably allocate a new one for
> ARM and newer and then we could reliably base the clearing of
> SDHCI_CAN_64BIT based on brcm,bcm7425-sdhci.
> 
> Finally, Arnd's suggestions of using "dma-ranges" is fine, but I do not
> think we quite need this here because we really need to advertise the
> right set of capabilities based on the generation/version of the
> controller deployed in specific chips.
> 
> I would like to have Al's feedback on this, since he wrote the driver ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Florian

Thanks for your detailed replay, and I understand why it must use a compatible
string for all brcmstb chips. I'm sending the bumped patch for BMIPS quickly.

Thanks,
Jaedon--
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