[PATCH v1 0/2] Disable HS400 for eMMC on Radxa ROCK 4 SBCs

From: Christopher Obbard
Date: Wed Jul 05 2023 - 10:43:22 EST


There is some instablity with some eMMC modules on ROCK Pi 4 SBCs running
in HS400 mode. This ends up resulting in some block errors after a while
or after a "heavy" operation utilising the eMMC (e.g. resizing a
filesystem). An example of these errors is as follows:

[ 289.171014] mmc1: running CQE recovery
[ 290.048972] mmc1: running CQE recovery
[ 290.054834] mmc1: running CQE recovery
[ 290.060817] mmc1: running CQE recovery
[ 290.061337] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk1, sector 1411072 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 36 prio class 0
[ 290.061370] EXT4-fs warning (device mmcblk1p1): ext4_end_bio:348: I/O error 10 writing to inode 29547 starting block 176466)
[ 290.061484] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172288
[ 290.061531] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172289
[ 290.061551] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172290
[ 290.061574] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172291
[ 290.061592] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172292
[ 290.061615] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172293
[ 290.061632] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172294
[ 290.061654] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172295
[ 290.061673] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172296
[ 290.061695] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 172297

Disabling the Command Queue seems to stop the CQE recovery from running,
but doesn't seem to improve the I/O errors. Until this can be investigated
further, disable HS400 mode on the ROCK Pi 4 SBCs to at least stop I/O
errors from occurring.


Christopher Obbard (2):
arm64: dts: rockchip: Disable HS400 for eMMC on ROCK Pi 4
arm64: dts: rockchip: Disable HS400 for eMMC on ROCK 4C+

arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rock-4c-plus.dts | 3 +--
arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtsi | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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