linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] mmc: dw_mmc: Generic MMC tuning with the clock phase framework

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Message-id: <55F8D442.5020004@samsung.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:30:26 +0900
From:	Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>
To:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
Cc:	ulf.hansson@...aro.org, mturquette@...libre.com,
	sboyd@...eaurora.org, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexandru M Stan <amstan@...omium.org>,
	CPGS <cpgs@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] mmc: dw_mmc: Generic MMC tuning with the clock phase
 framework

Hi,

On 09/16/2015 07:09 AM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 15. September 2015, 17:25:38 schrieb Jaehoon Chung:
>> On 09/01/2015 03:24 AM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>> From: Alexandru M Stan <amstan@...omium.org>
>>>
>>> This algorithm will try 1 degree increments, since there's no way to tell
>>> what resolution the underlying phase code uses. As an added bonus, doing
>>> many tunings yields better results since some tests are run more than once
>>> (ex: if the underlying driver uses 45 degree increments, the tuning code
>>> will try the same angle more than once).
>>>
>>> It will then construct a list of good phase ranges (even ranges that cross
>>> 360/0), will pick the biggest range then it will set the sample_clk to the
>>> middle of that range.
>>>
>>> We do not touch ciu_drive (and by extension define default-drive-phase).
>>> Drive phase is mostly used to define minimum hold times, while one could
>>> write some code to determine what phase meets the minimum hold time (ex 10
>>> degrees) this will not work with the current clock phase framework (which
>>> floors angles, so we'll get 0 deg, and there's no way to know what
>>> resolution the floors happen at). We assume that the default drive angles
>>> set by the hardware are good enough.
>>>
>>> If a device has device specific code (like exynos) then that will still
>>> take precedence, otherwise this new code will execute. If the device wants
>>> to tune, but has no sample_clk defined we'll return EIO with an error
>>> message.
>>
>> Which point is "_generic_"? I don't find the code that control the register
>> relevant to CLK_DRV/SMPL PHASE. It seems that posted the similar patches at
>> u-boot mailing list..
> 
> The "generic" part is that it uses the clk phase API for dw_mmc 
> implementations where the clkgen controlling interface is outside the dw_mmc 
> IP itself. So it's open for other implementations as well.

Designware IP also has the CLK phase register(UHS_REG_EXT register)...
if this code is related with it, it should be located into dw-mmc.c.

> 
> But if you are more comfortable with it, I can also move it into the dw_mmc-
> rockchip variant for the time being, until another user comes along.

I think more better that this code is located into dw_mmc-rockchip. how about?

Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung

> 
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 

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