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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 14:00:55 +0100
From: Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>
To: "Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz, Foundries" <jorge@...ndries.io>,
 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@....com>,
 "ulf.hansson@...aro.org" <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, neal.frager@....com,
 sai.krishna.potthuri@....com,
 "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
 "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: rpmb: do not force a retune before RPMB switch



On 1/5/24 09:49, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz, Foundries wrote:
> On 04/01/24 20:34:09, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> On 3/01/24 11:20, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz, Foundries wrote:
>>> On 03/01/24 10:03:38, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>>> Thanks for doing that!  That seems to explain the mystery.
>>>>
>>>> You could hack the test to get an idea of how many successful
>>>> iterations there are before getting an error.
>>>>
>>>> For SDHCI, one difference between tuning and re-tuning is the
>>>> setting of bit-7 "Sampling Clock Select" of "Host Control 2 Register".
>>>> It is initially 0 and then set to 1 after the successful tuning.
>>>> Essentially, leaving it set to 1 is meant to speed up the re-tuning.
>>>> You could try setting it to zero instead, and see if that helps.
>>>> e.g.
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
>>>> index c79f73459915..714d8cc39709 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
>>>> @@ -2732,6 +2732,7 @@ void sdhci_start_tuning(struct sdhci_host *host)
>>>>   	ctrl |= SDHCI_CTRL_EXEC_TUNING;
>>>>   	if (host->quirks2 & SDHCI_QUIRK2_TUNING_WORK_AROUND)
>>>>   		ctrl |= SDHCI_CTRL_TUNED_CLK;
>>>> +	ctrl &= ~SDHCI_CTRL_TUNED_CLK;
>>>>   	sdhci_writew(host, ctrl, SDHCI_HOST_CONTROL2);
>>>>
>>>>   	/*
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes with that change, the re-tuning reliability test does pass.
>>>
>>> root@...cg-dwg-sec:/sys/kernel/debug/mmc0#  echo 52 > /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/mmc0\:0001/test
>>> [  237.833585] mmc0: Starting tests of card mmc0:0001...
>>> [  237.838759] mmc0: Test case 52. Re-tuning reliability...
>>> [  267.845403] mmc0: Result: OK
>>> [  267.848365] mmc0: Tests completed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I still see the error when looping on RPMB reads.
>>>
>>> For instance with this test script
>>>   $ while true; do rpmb_read m4hash; usleep 300; done
>>>
>>> I can see the error triggering on the serial port after a minute or so.
>>> [  151.682907] sdhci-arasan ff160000.mmc: __mmc_blk_ioctl_cmd: data error -84
>>>
>>> Causing OP-TEE to panic since the RPMB read returns an error
>>> E/TC:? 0
>>> E/TC:? 0 TA panicked with code 0xffff0000
>>> E/LD:  Status of TA 22250a54-0bf1-48fe-8002-7b20f1c9c9b1
>>> E/LD:   arch: aarch64
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> if anything else springs to your mind I am happy to test of course - there are
>>> so many tunnables in this subsystem that experience is this area has exponential
>>> value (and I dont have much).
>>>
>>> Would it make sense if re-tuning requests are rejected unless a minimum number
>>> of jiffies have passed? should I try that as a change?
>>>
>>> or maybe delay a bit longer the RPMB access after a retune request?
>>
>> It seems re-tuning is not working properly, so ideally the
>> SoC vendor / driver implementer would provide a solution.
> 
> 
> Makes sense to me too. I am copying Michal on the DL.

We will take look at it.

Thanks,
Michal