On rare occations there is the following error:
mmc0: Tuning timeout, falling back to fixed sampling clock
There are SD cards which takes a significant longer time to reply to the
first CMD19 command. The eSDHC takes the data timeout value into account
during the tuning period. The SDHCI core doesn't explicitly set this
timeout for the tuning procedure. Thus on the slow cards, there might be
a spurious "Buffer Read Ready" interrupt, which in turn triggers a wrong
sequence of events. In the end this will lead to an unsuccessful tuning
procedure and to the above error.
To workaround this, set the timeout to the maximum value (which is the
best we can do) and the SDHCI core will take care of the proper timeout
handling.
Fixes: ba49cbd0936e ("mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: add tuning support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
---
Changes since v1:
- Added fixes tag. Suggested by Ulf Hansson.
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
index 0b45eff6fed4..baf7801a1804 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
@@ -1052,6 +1052,17 @@ static int esdhc_execute_tuning(struct mmc_host *mmc, u32 opcode)
esdhc_tuning_block_enable(host, true);
+ /*
+ * The eSDHC controller takes the data timeout value into account
+ * during tuning. If the SD card is too slow sending the response, the
+ * timer will expire and a "Buffer Read Ready" interrupt without data
+ * is triggered. This leads to tuning errors.
+ *
+ * Just set the timeout to the maximum value because the core will
+ * already take care of it in sdhci_send_tuning().
+ */
+ sdhci_writeb(host, 0xe, SDHCI_TIMEOUT_CONTROL);
+
hs400_tuning = host->flags & SDHCI_HS400_TUNING;
do {
--
2.20.1
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 00:24, Michael Walle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On rare occations there is the following error:
>
> mmc0: Tuning timeout, falling back to fixed sampling clock
>
> There are SD cards which takes a significant longer time to reply to the
> first CMD19 command. The eSDHC takes the data timeout value into account
> during the tuning period. The SDHCI core doesn't explicitly set this
> timeout for the tuning procedure. Thus on the slow cards, there might be
> a spurious "Buffer Read Ready" interrupt, which in turn triggers a wrong
> sequence of events. In the end this will lead to an unsuccessful tuning
> procedure and to the above error.
>
> To workaround this, set the timeout to the maximum value (which is the
> best we can do) and the SDHCI core will take care of the proper timeout
> handling.
>
> Fixes: ba49cbd0936e ("mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: add tuning support")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Applied for fixes and by adding a stable tag, thanks!
I am not sure for what stable kernel this applies to, but I guess we
will get notified about that, sooner or later.
Kind regards
Uffe
>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - Added fixes tag. Suggested by Ulf Hansson.
>
> drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
> index 0b45eff6fed4..baf7801a1804 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c
> @@ -1052,6 +1052,17 @@ static int esdhc_execute_tuning(struct mmc_host *mmc, u32 opcode)
>
> esdhc_tuning_block_enable(host, true);
>
> + /*
> + * The eSDHC controller takes the data timeout value into account
> + * during tuning. If the SD card is too slow sending the response, the
> + * timer will expire and a "Buffer Read Ready" interrupt without data
> + * is triggered. This leads to tuning errors.
> + *
> + * Just set the timeout to the maximum value because the core will
> + * already take care of it in sdhci_send_tuning().
> + */
> + sdhci_writeb(host, 0xe, SDHCI_TIMEOUT_CONTROL);
> +
> hs400_tuning = host->flags & SDHCI_HS400_TUNING;
>
> do {
> --
> 2.20.1
>