Onboard SD card doesn't work anymore after the 'mmc-v5.4-2' updates

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Tue Nov 5 01:44:35 AEDT 2019


FYI: The onboard SD card works also with the RC6 of kernel 5.4 with the 
patch below.

-- Christian

On 23 October 2019 at 4:20pm, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The patch below works. I compiled the RC4 of kernel 5.4 with this patch today and the onboard SD card works without any problems.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Christian
>
>> On 23. Oct 2019, at 07:42, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux at armlinux.org.uk> writes:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:12:49PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>> Hello Russell,
>>>>
>>>> You asked me about "dma-coherent" in the Cyrus device tree. Unfortunately I
>>>> don't find the property "dma-coherent" in the dtb source files.
>>>>
>>>> Output of "fdtdump cyrus_p5020_eth_poweroff.dtb | grep dma":
>>>>
>>>> dma0 = "/soc at ffe000000/dma at 100300";
>>>>          dma1 = "/soc at ffe000000/dma at 101300";
>>>>          dma at 100300 {
>>>>              compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma";
>>>>              dma-channel at 0 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 80 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 100 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 180 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>          dma at 101300 {
>>>>              compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma";
>>>>              dma-channel at 0 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 80 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 100 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>>>              dma-channel at 180 {
>>>>                  compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> Hmm, so it looks like PowerPC doesn't mark devices that are dma
>>> coherent with a property that describes them as such.
>>>
>>> I think this opens a wider question - what should of_dma_is_coherent()
>>> return for PowerPC?  It seems right now that it returns false for
>>> devices that are DMA coherent, which seems to me to be a recipe for
>>> future mistakes.
>> Right, it seems of_dma_is_coherent() has baked in the assumption that
>> devices are non-coherent unless explicitly marked as coherent.
>>
>> Which is wrong on all or at least most existing powerpc systems
>> according to Ben.
>>
>>> Any ideas from the PPC maintainers?
>> Fixing it at the source seems like the best option to prevent future
>> breakage.
>>
>> So I guess that would mean making of_dma_is_coherent() return true/false
>> based on CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE on powerpc.
>>
>> We could do it like below, which would still allow the dma-coherent
>> property to work if it ever makes sense on a future powerpc platform.
>>
>> I don't really know any of this embedded stuff well, so happy to take
>> other suggestions on how to handle this mess.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
>> index 25aaa3903000..b96c9010acb6 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
>> @@ -760,6 +760,22 @@ static int __init check_cache_coherency(void)
>> late_initcall(check_cache_coherency);
>> #endif /* CONFIG_CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY */
>>
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
>> +/*
>> + * For historical reasons powerpc kernels are built with hard wired knowledge of
>> + * whether or not DMA accesses are cache coherent. Additionally device trees on
>> + * powerpc do not typically support the dma-coherent property.
>> + *
>> + * So when we know that DMA is coherent, override arch_of_dma_is_coherent() to
>> + * tell the drivers/of code that all devices are coherent regardless of whether
>> + * they have a dma-coherent property.
>> + */
>> +bool arch_of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
>> +{
>> +    return true;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
>> struct dentry *powerpc_debugfs_root;
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(powerpc_debugfs_root);
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
>> index 978427a9d5e6..3a4b2949a322 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/address.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
>> @@ -993,6 +993,14 @@ int of_dma_get_range(struct device_node *np, u64 *dma_addr, u64 *paddr, u64 *siz
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_get_range);
>>
>> +/*
>> + * arch_of_dma_is_coherent - Arch hook to determine if device is coherent for DMA
>> + */
>> +bool __weak arch_of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
>> +{
>> +    return false;
>> +}
>> +
>> /**
>>   * of_dma_is_coherent - Check if device is coherent
>>   * @np:    device node
>> @@ -1002,8 +1010,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_get_range);
>>   */
>> bool of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
>> {
>> -    struct device_node *node = of_node_get(np);
>> +    struct device_node *node;
>> +
>> +    if (arch_of_dma_is_coherent(np))
>> +        return true;
>>
>> +    np = of_node_get(np);
>>     while (node) {
>>         if (of_property_read_bool(node, "dma-coherent")) {
>>             of_node_put(node);



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