SD card over (xilinx_)SPI, timeout error while CID

[Joachim Foerster]

Hi,

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 17:34 +0200, Joachim Foerster wrote:
> we have a very strange problem with SD-card-over-SPI support using
> 2.6.29.4 on our custom PowerPC 405 (Virtex-4 FX FPGA) based board. To
> summarize the problem in one sentence: mmc_spi gets a timeout (error
> -110) after sending MMC command "CMD10" (CID, card identification?).

The problem seems to be these DMA transfers/methods (?), which are used
by mmc_spi, if spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask is non-NULL in
mmc_spi_probe() .
We detected the problem in form of kind of "data loss/corruption" in
mmc_spi_readbytes() after spi_sync() is called. Data is received
correctly by xilinx_spi (and thus by spi_sync())!

Background: The CMD10 is the first "bigger" ;-) (16 bytes) block
transfer, where mmc_spi waits for the token 0xfe by calling
mmc_spi_skip() in the end and later on receives these 16 bytes. But the
token seems to be "lost/corrupted" and thus a timeout occurs.

For now our dirty workaround is, to remove DMA support by commenting out
the "if (spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask)" block in mmc_spi_probe().

Note, that in the old 2.6.26+arch/ppc this dma_mask is NULL - so DMA
code is never activated in mmc_spi_probe()!

Conclusion: Either DMA code in mmc_spi has a bug OR dma_*() functions
have a bug OR the device tree setup code should not assign a dma_mask to
xilinx_spi devices?

Any hints? Where do we have to look in case there is something wrong in
device tree setup?

 Joachim