[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mmc: increase MMC SDHCI read status timeout

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jun 28 22:34:19 CEST 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 01:30:09PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > On 27.06.2016 23:43, Steve Rae wrote:
> >>
> >> Otherwise,  ocassionally see errors like this:
> >>    Flashing sparse image at offset 2078720
> >>    Flashing Sparse Image
> >>    sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update!
> >>    mmc fail to send stop cmd
> >>    write_sparse_image: Write failed, block #2181088 [0]
> >>
> >> This does not affect the actual writing speed, which is controlled by
> >> the default value:
> >>    CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
> >>
> >> It only increases the retries when reading:
> >>    SDHCI_INT_STATUS
> >> to avoid the timeout error.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Steve Rae <steve.rae at raedomain.com>
> >> ---
> >> as per the discussion in:
> >> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-June/258966.html
> >> this supercedes:
> >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/615994/
> >
> >
> > IIRC, I've suggested to move SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to Kconfig
> > and use the old value as default value. So that you can overwrite
> > it for your board / platform via your defconfig. But I have no
> > strong feelings here - your current version also works for
> > me and does not "clutter" the Kconfig subsystem with too many
> > values. So:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan
> >
> 
> Thanks for the review...
> I didn't want to touch the "performance" algorithm related to
> SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT (which maybe should be in Kconfig).
> However, the retry loop related to SDHCI_READ_STATUS_TIMEOUT doesn't need to
> be in Kconfig -- it is just a define.

... so how is this handled in the kernel?  I'm assuming some DT
property..

-- 
Tom
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