Re: [PATCH] mmc: mmci_sdmmc: fix power on issue due to pwr_reg initialization

[Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 11:25, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 18:18, Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@st.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch fix a power-on issue, and avoid to retry the power sequence.
> >
> > In power off sequence: sdmmc must set pwr_reg in "power-cycle" state
> > (value 0x2), to prevent the card from being supplied through the signal
> > lines (all the lines are driven low).
> >
> > In power on sequence: when the power is stable, sdmmc must set pwr_reg
> > in "power-off" state (value 0x0) to drive all signal to high before to
> > set "power-on".
>
> Just a question to gain further understanding.
>
> Let's assume that the controller is a power-on state, because it's
> been initialized by the boot loader. When the mmc core then starts the
> power-on sequence (not doing a power-off first), would $subject patch
> then cause the
> MMCIPOWER to remain as is, or is it going to be overwritten?
>
> I am a little worried that we may start to rely on boot loader
> conditions, which isn't really what we want either...
>
> >
> > To avoid writing the same value to the power register several times, this
> > register is cached by the pwr_reg variable. At probe pwr_reg is initialized
> > to 0 by kzalloc of mmc_alloc_host.
> >
> > Like pwr_reg value is 0 at probing, the power on sequence fail because
> > the "power-off" state is not writes (value 0x0) and the lines
> > remain drive to low.
> >
> > This patch initializes "pwr_reg" variable with power register value.
> > This it done in sdmmc variant init to not disturb default mmci behavior.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@st.com>
>
> Besides the comment, the code and the approach seems reasonable to me.

Another related question. I just realized why you probably haven't set
.pwrreg_nopower for the variant_stm32_sdmmc and variant_stm32_sdmmcv2.

I guess it's because you need a slightly different way to restore the
context of MMCIPOWER register at ->runtime_resume(), rather than just
re-writing it with the saved register values. Is this something that
you are looking into as well?

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Kind regards
Uffe