On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 01:06:46PM +0200, Claudiu wrote:
> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On latest kernel revisions it has been noticed (on a RZ/G3S system) that
> when booting Linux and root file system is on eMMC, at some point in
> the booting process, when the systemd applications are started, the
> "mmc0: tuning execution failed: -5" message is displayed on console.
> On kernel v6.7-rc5 this is reproducible in 90% of the boots. This was
> missing on the same system with kernel v6.5.0-rc1. It was also noticed on
> kernel revisions v6.6-rcX on a RZ/G2UL based system but not on the kernel
> this fix is based on (v6.7-rc5).
>
> Investigating it on RZ/G3S lead to the conclusion that every time the issue
> is reproduced all the probed TAPs are OK. According to datasheet, when this
> happens the change point of data need to be considered for tuning.
>
> Previous code considered the change point of data happens when the content
> of the SMPCMP register is zero. According to RZ/V2M hardware manual,
> chapter "Change Point of the Input Data" (as this is the most clear
> description that I've found about change point of the input data and all
> RZ hardware manual are similar on this chapter), at the time of tuning,
> data is captured by the previous and next TAPs and the result is stored in
> the SMPCMP register (previous TAP in bits 22..16, next TAP in bits 7..0).
> If there is a mismatch b/w the previous and the next TAPs, it indicates
> that there is a change point of the input data.
>
> To comply with this, the code checks if this mismatch is present and
> updates the priv->smpcmp mask.
>
> This change has been checked on the devices with the following DTSes by
> doing 50 consecutive reboots and checking for the tuning failure message:
> - r9a08g045s33-smarc.dts
> - r8a7742-iwg21d-q7.dts
> - r8a7743-iwg20d-q7.dts
> - r8a7744-iwg20d-q7.dts
> - r8a7745-iwg22d-sodimm.dts
> - r8a77470-iwg23s-sbc.dts
> - r8a774a1-hihope-rzg2m-ex.dts
> - r8a774b1-hihope-rzg2n-ex.dts
> - r8a774c0-ek874.dts
> - r8a774e1-hihope-rzg2h-ex.dts
> - r9a07g043u11-smarc-rzg2ul.dts
> - r9a07g044c2-smarc-rzg2lc.dts
> - r9a07g044l2-smarc-rzg2l.dts
> - r9a07g054l2-smarc-rzv2l.dts
>
> On r8a774a1-hihope-rzg2m-ex, even though the hardware manual doesn't say
> anything special about it in the "Change Point of the Input Data" chapter
> or SMPCMP register description, it has been noticed that although all TAPs
> probed in the tuning process are OK the SMPCMP is zero. For this updated
> the renesas_sdhi_select_tuning() function to use priv->taps in case all
> TAPs are OK.
>
> Fixes: 5fb6bf51f6d1 ("mmc: renesas_sdhi: improve TAP selection if all TAPs are good")
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Very interesting patch! Please give me a few days to review/test it.
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