[U-Boot] error: sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update!

Stefan,
I am asking you about this code, because of this: commit 29905a4 - mmc: sdhci: Use timer based timeout detection in sdhci_send_command()
Occasionally, I am seeing failures when writing to flash on my device:
Flashing sparse image at offset 2078720 Flashing Sparse Image sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update! mmc fail to send stop cmd write_sparse_image: Write failed, block #2181088 [0]
I can eliminate this error if I kludge the following code:
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c index 5c71ab8..854f7ce 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c @@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ static int sdhci_send_command(struct mmc *mmc, struct mmc_cmd *cmd, if (stat & SDHCI_INT_ERROR) break; } while (((stat & mask) != mask) && - (get_timer(start) < CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT)); + (get_timer(start) < 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/));
- if (get_timer(start) >= CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) { + if (get_timer(start) >= 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/) { if (host->quirks & SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_R1B) return 0; else {
I don't know much about this - I arrived at 600 by trial and error (500 fails...) Any ideas?
Thanks, Steve steve.rae@raedomain.com (previously: srae@broadcom.com)

Steve,
On 24.06.2016 00:06, Steve Rae wrote:
I am asking you about this code, because of this: commit 29905a4 - mmc: sdhci: Use timer based timeout detection in sdhci_send_command()
Occasionally, I am seeing failures when writing to flash on my device:
Flashing sparse image at offset 2078720 Flashing Sparse Image sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update! mmc fail to send stop cmd write_sparse_image: Write failed, block #2181088 [0]
I can eliminate this error if I kludge the following code:
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c index 5c71ab8..854f7ce 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c @@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ static int sdhci_send_command(struct mmc *mmc, struct mmc_cmd *cmd, if (stat & SDHCI_INT_ERROR) break; } while (((stat & mask) != mask) &&
(get_timer(start) < CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT));
(get_timer(start) < 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/));
if (get_timer(start) >= CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) {
if (get_timer(start) >= 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/) { if (host->quirks & SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_R1B) return 0; else {
I don't know much about this - I arrived at 600 by trial and error (500 fails...) Any ideas?
Perhaps your platform needs a bigger timeout value. Did you check what the Linux driver does here? You could move CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to Kconfig with a default of 100 and select a higher value for your platform.
Thanks, Stefan

Hi Stefan, Masahiro
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Stefan Roese sr@denx.de wrote:
Steve,
On 24.06.2016 00:06, Steve Rae wrote:
I am asking you about this code, because of this: commit 29905a4 - mmc: sdhci: Use timer based timeout detection in sdhci_send_command()
Occasionally, I am seeing failures when writing to flash on my device:
Flashing sparse image at offset 2078720 Flashing Sparse Image sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update! mmc fail to send stop cmd write_sparse_image: Write failed, block #2181088 [0]
I can eliminate this error if I kludge the following code:
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c index 5c71ab8..854f7ce 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c @@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ static int sdhci_send_command(struct mmc *mmc, struct mmc_cmd *cmd, if (stat & SDHCI_INT_ERROR) break; } while (((stat & mask) != mask) &&
(get_timer(start) < CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT));
(get_timer(start) < 600
/*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/));
if (get_timer(start) >= CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) {
if (get_timer(start) >= 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/)
{ if (host->quirks & SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_R1B) return 0; else {
I don't know much about this - I arrived at 600 by trial and error (500 fails...) Any ideas?
Perhaps your platform needs a bigger timeout value. Did you check what the Linux driver does here?
It looks like (v.4.6) the code loops for max_loops=16, and it looks like the loop delay is created by a write (which does not exist in the U-Boot code): sdhci_writel(host, mask, SDHCI_INT_STATUS);
You could move CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to Kconfig with a default of 100 and select a higher value for your platform.
Would it be wise to create a new CONFIG for the reading of the status, rather than overloading the CONFIG used for sending the command? maybe: CONFIG_SDHCI_STATUS_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT ?
Thanks, Steve
Thanks, Stefan

2016-06-24 7:06 GMT+09:00 Steve Rae steve.rae@raedomain.com:
Stefan,
I am asking you about this code, because of this: commit 29905a4 - mmc: sdhci: Use timer based timeout detection in sdhci_send_command()
Occasionally, I am seeing failures when writing to flash on my device:
Flashing sparse image at offset 2078720 Flashing Sparse Image sdhci_send_command: Timeout for status update! mmc fail to send stop cmd write_sparse_image: Write failed, block #2181088 [0]
I can eliminate this error if I kludge the following code:
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c index 5c71ab8..854f7ce 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/sdhci.c @@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ static int sdhci_send_command(struct mmc *mmc, struct mmc_cmd *cmd, if (stat & SDHCI_INT_ERROR) break; } while (((stat & mask) != mask) &&
(get_timer(start) < CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT));
(get_timer(start) < 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/));
if (get_timer(start) >= CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) {
if (get_timer(start) >= 600 /*CONFIG_SDHCI_CMD_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT*/) { if (host->quirks & SDHCI_QUIRK_BROKEN_R1B) return 0; else {
I don't know much about this - I arrived at 600 by trial and error (500 fails...) Any ideas?
Hi Steve,
You are not alone.
I am also suffering this too short timeout value.
I sent this patch about two months ago. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/615994/
But, nothing happened.
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Masahiro Yamada
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Stefan Roese
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Steve Rae