linux-kernel - [PATCH wireless v2] wifi: rtw88: sdio: Always use two consecutive bytes for word operations

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Message-Id: <20230515195043.572375-1-martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Date:   Mon, 15 May 2023 21:50:43 +0200
From:   Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pkshih@...ltek.com,
        tony0620emma@...il.com, kvalo@...nel.org, jernej.skrabec@...il.com,
        linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@...tbaum.com>
Subject: [PATCH wireless v2] wifi: rtw88: sdio: Always use two consecutive bytes for word operations

The Allwinner sunxi-mmc controller cannot handle word (16 bit)
transfers. So and sdio_{read,write}w fails with messages like the
following example using an RTL8822BS (but the same problems were also
observed with RTL8822CS and RTL8723DS chips):
  rtw_8822bs mmc1:0001:1: Firmware version 27.2.0, H2C version 13
  sunxi-mmc 4021000.mmc: unaligned scatterlist: os f80 length 2
  sunxi-mmc 4021000.mmc: map DMA failed
  rtw_8822bs mmc1:0001:1: sdio read16 failed (0x10230): -22

Use two consecutive single byte accesses for word operations instead. It
turns out that upon closer inspection this is also what the vendor
driver does, even though it does have support for sdio_{read,write}w. So
we can conclude that the rtw88 chips do support word access but only on
SDIO controllers that also support it. Since there's no way to detect if
the controller supports word access or not the rtw88 sdio driver
switches to the easiest approach: avoiding word access.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/527585e5-9cdd-66ed-c3af-6da162f4b720@lwfinger.net/
Reported-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@...tbaum.com>
Link: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/7837#issue-1708469467
Fixes: 65371a3f14e7 ("wifi: rtw88: sdio: Add HCI implementation for SDIO based chipsets")
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- Added Link to Rudi Heitbaum's issue report
- Added Ping-Ke's Reviewed-by (thank you!)
- Cc'ed linux-sunxi


 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sdio.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sdio.c
index af0459a79899..06fce7c3adda 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sdio.c
@@ -87,11 +87,6 @@ static void rtw_sdio_writew(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u16 val, u32 addr,
 	u8 buf[2];
 	int i;
 
-	if (rtw_sdio_use_memcpy_io(rtwdev, addr, 2)) {
-		sdio_writew(rtwsdio->sdio_func, val, addr, err_ret);
-		return;
-	}
-
 	*(__le16 *)buf = cpu_to_le16(val);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
@@ -125,9 +120,6 @@ static u16 rtw_sdio_readw(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u32 addr, int *err_ret)
 	u8 buf[2];
 	int i;
 
-	if (rtw_sdio_use_memcpy_io(rtwdev, addr, 2))
-		return sdio_readw(rtwsdio->sdio_func, addr, err_ret);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
 		buf[i] = sdio_readb(rtwsdio->sdio_func, addr + i, err_ret);
 		if (*err_ret)
-- 
2.40.1