Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mmc: sdhci: Use the SW timer when the HW timer cannot meet the timeout value required by the device

[Bean Huo <huobean@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 11:59 +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 30/09/2021 11:34, Bean Huo wrote:
> > Hi Adrian,
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > I want to give a short conclusion  for our discussion:
> > 
> > Based on your information, these sounds disable of HW timer timeout
> > interrupt will make eMMC host controller malfunction, in another
> > word,
> > the disable of timeout interrupt will make the eMMC host cannot
> > correctly provide the completion interrupt. And unless only when
> > the
> > SOC vendor signals that their SOC supports that the host side SW
> > can
> > disable this HW timeout interrupt, as TI does.
> > 
> > I studied the SDHCI Spec, and tried to see if there is this kind of
> > support statement, but not been found yet. I will check with other
> > SOC
> > vendors.
> > 
> > I have one more question, if you know, please give me your
> > information.
> > 
> > I did testing on HW timer bahevior in case CQE is on.  Currently,
> > we
> > always set the HW timer with the maximum timeout value if CQE is
> > on.
> > Based on my testing, the HW timer will never timeout when we enable
> > CQE. I changed the HW timer value to be lower, it is the same
> > result.
> > Do you know that the HW timer will be inactivated in case CQE is
> > on?  but its timeout interrupt is still enabled.
> 
> No I don't know how different CQE handle timeouts.

Thanks anyway.

Bean

> 
> > Kind regards,
> > Bean
> >