Re: [PATCH] mmc: dw_mmc: handle data blocks > than 4kB if IDMAC is used

[Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>]

On Wednesday 01 July 2015 03:32 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Jaehoon, Seungwon, Ulf,
> 
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:25 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
>> > As per DW MobileStorage databook "each descriptor can transfer up to 
>> > 4kB
>> > of data in chained mode", moreover buffer size that is put in "des1" 
>> > is
>> > limited to 13 bits, i.e. for example on attempt to
>> > IDMAC_SET_BUFFER1_SIZE(desc, 8192) size value that's effectively 
>> > written
>> > will be 0.
>> > 
>> > On the platform with 8kB PAGE_SIZE I see dw_mmc gets data blocks in
>> > SG-list of 8kB size and that leads to unpredictable behavior of the
>> > SD/MMC controller.
>> > 
>> > In particular on write to FAT partition of SD-card the controller 
>> > will
>> > stuck in the middle of DMA transaction.
>> > 
>> > Solution to the problem is simple - we need to pass large (> 4kB) 
>> > data
>> > buffers to the controller via multiple descriptors. And that's what
>> > that change does.
>> > 
>> > What's interesting I did try original driver on same platform but
>> > configured with 4kB PAGE_SIZE and may confirm that data blocks passed
>> > in SG-list to dw_mmc never exeed 4kB limit - that explains why nobody
>> > ever faced a problem I did.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
>> > Cc: Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>
>> > Cc: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>
>> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
>> > Cc: arc-linux-dev@synopsys.com
>> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>> > ----------
> I'm wondering if there're any comments on that patch or if it could be
> applied?
> 
> It fixes a real problem on systems on 4K PAGE_SIZE so would be good to

s/4K/8k

Alexey fat-fingered it seems. ARC cores by default have 8k MMU page size and we
saw this issue on ARC SDP boards !

-Vineet

> have it in upstream. In particular this is the case with ARC AXS board
> which made its way in upstream kernel recently.
> 
> Regards,
> Alexey--