[U-Boot] fsl_esdhc: Do not clear interrupt status bits until data processed
Andy Fleming
afleming at right.am.freescale.net
Fri Jun 14 20:55:09 CEST 2013
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:34:22AM -0500, Andrew Gabbasov wrote:
> After waiting for the command completion event, the interrupt status
> bits, that occured to be set by that time, are cleared by writing them
> back. It is supposed, that it should be command related bits (command
> complete and may be command errors).
>
> However, in some cases the DMA already completes by that time before
> the full transaction completes. The corresponding DINT bit gets set
> and then cleared before even entering the loop, waiting for data part
> completion. That waiting loop never gets this bit set, causing the
> operation to hang. This is reported to happen, for example, for write
> operation of 1 sector to upper area (block #7400000) of SanDisk Ultra II
> 8GB card.
>
> The solution could be to explicitly clear only command related interrupt
> status bits. However, since subsequent processing does not rely on
> any command bits state, it could be easier just to remove clearing
> of any bits at that point, leaving them all until all data processing
> completes. After that the whole register will be cleared at once.
>
> Also, on occasion, interrupts masking moved to before writing the command,
> just for the case there should be no chance of interrupt between the first
> command and interrupts masking.
>
> Reported-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at de.bosch.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov at mentor.com>
> Acked-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at de.bosch.com>
Applied, Thanks!
Andy
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