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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:22:52 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 112701 for review
Message-ID:  <20070110092251.GG80390@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701100703.l0A734xi068010@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200701100703.l0A734xi068010@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:03:04AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=112701
> 
> Change 112701 by imp@imp_lighthouse on 2007/01/10 07:02:04
> 
> 	Add a comment about why we need to do the dance we do with enabling
> 	the PDC, along with a simplified version of the code.
> 
> Affected files ...
> 
> .. //depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/at91/at91_mci.c#30 edit
> 
> Differences ...
> 
> ==== //depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/at91/at91_mci.c#30 (text+ko) ====
> 
> @@ -402,16 +402,27 @@
>  		}
>  	}
>  //	printf("CMDR %x ARGR %x with data\n", cmdr, cmd->arg);
> +	/*
> +	 * For Reads, we need to enable the DMA buffer before we send
> +	 * the command.  For writes, alas, it has to be enabled after
> +	 * we send the command.  If enabled after the CMDR write for
> +	 * reads, fast SD parts could win the race that's present and
> +	 * the result would be corrupted data because the ENDRX bit
> +	 * would be set, but the dma wouldn't have started yet.  When
> +	 * that interrupt returned, we'd enable DMA.  We'd then get a
> +	 * RXBUFF interrupt and then a CMDRDY interrupt.  We'd process
> +	 * things int he ISR.  But since the DMA started after we got
> +	 * the ENDRX and RXBUFF interrupts, when we got the CMDRDY
> +	 * interrupt the data would still be in flight, leading to
> +	 * corruption.  This race was 'hard' to trigger for slow parts,
> +	 * but easy to trigger for faster ones.
> +	 */
>  	WR4(sc, MCI_ARGR, cmd->arg);
> -	if (cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRCMD_START) {
> -		if (cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRDIR) {
> -			WR4(sc, PDC_PTCR, PDC_PTCR_RXTEN);
> -			WR4(sc, MCI_CMDR, cmdr);
> -		} else {
> -			WR4(sc, MCI_CMDR, cmdr);
> -			WR4(sc, PDC_PTCR, PDC_PTCR_TXTEN);
> -		}
> -	}
> +	if ((cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRCMD_START) && (cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRDIR))
> +		WR4(sc, PDC_PTCR, PDC_PTCR_RXTEN);
> +	WR4(sc, MCI_CMDR, cmdr);
> +	if ((cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRCMD_START) && !(cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRDIR))
> +		WR4(sc, PDC_PTCR, PDC_PTCR_TXTEN);
>  	WR4(sc, MCI_IER, MCI_SR_ERROR | ier);
>  }
>  

This moves MCI_CMDR writing out of the (cmdr & MCI_CMDR_TRCMD_START)
check.

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