Re: [PATCH] mmc: tegra: Use sdhci_pltfm_clk_get_max_clock

[Peter Geis]

On 06/05/2018 05:28 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:35:40PM +0300, Aapo Vienamo wrote:
> > The sdhci get_max_clock callback is set to sdhci_pltfm_clk_get_max_clock
> > and tegra_sdhci_get_max_clock is removed. It appears that the
> > shdci-tegra specific callback was originally introduced due to the
> > requirement that the host clock has to be twice the bus clock on DDR50
> > mode. As far as I can tell the only effect the removal has on DDR50 mode
> > is in cases where the parent clock is unable to supply the requested
> > clock rate, causing the DDR50 mode to run at a lower frequency.
> > Currently the DDR50 mode isn't enabled on any of the SoCs and would also
> > require configuring the SDHCI clock divider register to function
> > properly.
> >
> > The problem with tegra_sdhci_get_max_clock is that it divides the clock
> > rate by two and thus artificially limits the maximum frequency of faster
> > signaling modes which don't have the host-bus frequency ratio requirement
> > of DDR50 such as SDR104 and HS200. Furthermore, the call to
> > clk_round_rate() may return an error which isn't handled by
> > tegra_sdhci_get_max_clock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aapo Vienamo <avienamo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-tegra.c | 15 ++-------------
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-tegra.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-tegra.c
> > index 970d38f6..c8745b5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-tegra.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-tegra.c
> > @@ -234,17 +234,6 @@ static void tegra_sdhci_set_uhs_signaling(struct sdhci_host *host,
> >   	sdhci_set_uhs_signaling(host, timing);
> >   }
> >   
> > -static unsigned int tegra_sdhci_get_max_clock(struct sdhci_host *host)
> > -{
> > -	struct sdhci_pltfm_host *pltfm_host = sdhci_priv(host);
> > -
> > -	/*
> > -	 * DDR modes require the host to run at double the card frequency, so
> > -	 * the maximum rate we can support is half of the module input clock.
> > -	 */
> > -	return clk_round_rate(pltfm_host->clk, UINT_MAX) / 2;
> > -}
>
> sdhci_pltfm_clk_get_max_clock() returns the current frequency of the
> clock, which may not be an accurate maximum.
>
> Also, even if we don't support DDR modes now, we may want to enable them
> in the future, at which point we'll need to move to something similar to
> the above again, albeit maybe with some of the issues that you mentioned
> fixed.
>
> I wonder if we have access to the target mode in this function, because
> it seems to me like we'd need to take that into account when determining
> the maximum clock rate. Or perhaps the double-rate aspect is already
> dealt with in other parts of the MMC subsystem, so the value we should
> return here may not even need to take the mode into account.
>
> All of the above said, it is true that we don't enable DDR modes as of
> now, and this patch seems like it shouldn't break anything either, so:
>
> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I also gave this a brief run on Jetson TK1 and things seem to work fine,
> so:
>
> Tested-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
I am currently testing this in my Ouya project, to see if it makes a 
difference in my eMMC stability above 30Mhz.
As a drop in replacement it works.
I'll be cranking up the speed later.