Re: [PATCH] mmc: sunxi-mmc: Correct the maximum segment size

[Samuel Holland]

On 4/25/22 5:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> On 4/25/22 01:06, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> According to the DMA descriptor documentation, the lowest two bits of
>> the size field are ignored, so the size must be rounded up to a multiple
>> of 4 bytes. Furthermore, 0 is not a valid buffer size; setting the size
>> to 0 will cause that DMA descriptor to be ignored.
>>
>> Together, these restrictions limit the maximum DMA segment size to 4
>> less than the power-of-two width of the size field.
> 
> I assume that you were seeing some problems where things where not working
> which caused you to investigate this; and that this patch fixes those
> problems?   If yes then it would be good to also mention the problems +
> investigative process in the commit message.

No, this is just based on reading the manual. I was investigating some problems
when I originally wrote this patch, but they turned out to be unrelated, and
reverting this patch doesn't cause any obvious regression.

> I'm no longer involved in sunxi development, but still I wonder if the
> subtraction of 4 from the max_seg_size is really necessary? This seems
> to be based on the notion that as you say "0 is not a valid buffer size"
> where as the code so far has been operating under the assumption that
> putting 0 in sunxi_idma_des.buf_size means maximum buf-size.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that 0 meaning maximum buf-size is correct for at least
> the older chips where idma_des_size_bits equals 13, which means that
> only 2 4K pages fit in a single desc, so we almost certainly have been
> hitting this code path ?
> 
> Although: drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c which seems to be for similar
> hw suggests that on designs where idma_des_size_bits == 13 only
> 4k can be used, which sorta matches what you are doing here except
> that you limit things to 8k - 4 instead of to just 4k.
> 
> Anyways I was just wondering about all this...

It probably deserves someone testing this specific scenario, so we can either
verify the fix is needed, or add a comment explaining that the documentation is
wrong.

Regards,
Samuel

> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Fixes: 3cbcb16095f9 ("mmc: sunxi: Add driver for SD/MMC hosts found on Allwinner sunxi SoCs")
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>>  drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c | 14 ++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
>> index c62afd212692..4bd5f37b1036 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
>> @@ -214,6 +214,9 @@
>>  #define SDXC_IDMAC_DES0_CES	BIT(30) /* card error summary */
>>  #define SDXC_IDMAC_DES0_OWN	BIT(31) /* 1-idma owns it, 0-host owns it */
>>  
>> +/* Buffer size must be a multiple of 4 bytes. */
>> +#define SDXC_IDMAC_SIZE_ALIGN	4
>> +
>>  #define SDXC_CLK_400K		0
>>  #define SDXC_CLK_25M		1
>>  #define SDXC_CLK_50M		2
>> @@ -361,17 +364,15 @@ static void sunxi_mmc_init_idma_des(struct sunxi_mmc_host *host,
>>  {
>>  	struct sunxi_idma_des *pdes = (struct sunxi_idma_des *)host->sg_cpu;
>>  	dma_addr_t next_desc = host->sg_dma;
>> -	int i, max_len = (1 << host->cfg->idma_des_size_bits);
>> +	int i;
>>  
>>  	for (i = 0; i < data->sg_len; i++) {
>>  		pdes[i].config = cpu_to_le32(SDXC_IDMAC_DES0_CH |
>>  					     SDXC_IDMAC_DES0_OWN |
>>  					     SDXC_IDMAC_DES0_DIC);
>>  
>> -		if (data->sg[i].length == max_len)
>> -			pdes[i].buf_size = 0; /* 0 == max_len */
>> -		else
>> -			pdes[i].buf_size = cpu_to_le32(data->sg[i].length);
>> +		pdes[i].buf_size = cpu_to_le32(ALIGN(data->sg[i].length,
>> +						     SDXC_IDMAC_SIZE_ALIGN));
>>  
>>  		next_desc += sizeof(struct sunxi_idma_des);
>>  		pdes[i].buf_addr_ptr1 =
>> @@ -1420,7 +1421,8 @@ static int sunxi_mmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  	mmc->max_blk_count	= 8192;
>>  	mmc->max_blk_size	= 4096;
>>  	mmc->max_segs		= PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct sunxi_idma_des);
>> -	mmc->max_seg_size	= (1 << host->cfg->idma_des_size_bits);
>> +	mmc->max_seg_size	= (1 << host->cfg->idma_des_size_bits) -
>> +				  SDXC_IDMAC_SIZE_ALIGN;
>>  	mmc->max_req_size	= mmc->max_seg_size * mmc->max_segs;
>>  	/* 400kHz ~ 52MHz */
>>  	mmc->f_min		=   400000;
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