Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: dw_mmc: return -EILSEQ for EBE and SBE error

[Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>]

Hi Shawn,

On 08/22/2016 11:57 AM, Shawn Lin wrote:
> The following log we found indicate the fact that dw_mmc
> didn't treat EBE or SBE as a similar problem as CRC error.
> -EIO is quite not informative as it may indicate that the device
> is broken rather than that of tuning stuff.
> 
> ...
> [ 89.057226] bcmsdh_sdmmc: Failed to Read byte F1:@0x1001f=ff, Err: -5
> [ 89.058811] bcmsdh_sdmmc: Failed to Read byte F1:@0x1001f=ff, Err: -5
> [ 89.059415] bcmsdh_sdmmc: Failed to Read byte F1:@0x1000e=ff, Err: -84
> [ 89.254248] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Successfully tuned phase to 199
> [ 89.273912] dhd_set_suspend: Remove extra suspend setting
> [ 89.274478] dhd_enable_packet_filter: enter, value = 0
> 64 bytes from 112.90.83.112: icmp_seq=24 ttl=53 time=1321 ms
> 64 bytes from 112.90.83.112: icmp_seq=25 ttl=53 time=319 ms
> 64 bytes from 112.90.83.112: icmp_seq=26 ttl=53 time=69.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 112.90.83.112: icmp_seq=27 ttl=53 time=37.5 ms
> ...
> 
> For the host, when failing to sample cmd's response due to
> tuning stuff, we still return -EIO as it's quite vague to figure
> out whether it related to signal or just the broken devices, especially
> for the card type detection when booting kernel as all things go well
> but the cmd set used.
> 
> But for the data phase, if receiving the cmd's response which
> carriess data transfer, we should have more confidence that it
> is very probably related to the tuning stuff.
> 
> Just as the log shown above, we sometimes suffer too much
> this kind of pain as the dw_mmc return -EIO for the case, so
> mmc-core will not do retune and caller drivers like bcm's wifi
> driver, still retry the failure more and more until dw_mmc
> finally generate CRC.
> 
> Adrian suggested that drivers who care the specific cases should
> call mmc_retune_needed rather than doing it in mmc core. It makes
> sense but I'm considering that -EILSEQ actually means illegal sequence
> , so we use it for CRC cases. Meanwhile, SBE/EBE indicate the illegal
> sequence of start bit or end bit for data0~7. So I realize that we should
> use -EILSEQ for them both as well CRC cases.

Applied on my repository.
Thanks!

Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung

> 
> Suggested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - fix some typos found by Jaehoon
> 
>  drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> index 32380d5..b36a4f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> @@ -1691,11 +1691,11 @@ static int dw_mci_data_complete(struct dw_mci *host, struct mmc_data *data)
>  				data->error = -ETIMEDOUT;
>  			} else if (host->dir_status ==
>  					DW_MCI_RECV_STATUS) {
> -				data->error = -EIO;
> +				data->error = -EILSEQ;
>  			}
>  		} else {
>  			/* SDMMC_INT_SBE is included */
> -			data->error = -EIO;
> +			data->error = -EILSEQ;
>  		}
>  
>  		dev_dbg(host->dev, "data error, status 0x%08x\n", status);
>