On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote:

> On 02.09.25 19:48, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com
> > <mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 02.09.25 19:30, Warner Losh wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com
> >     <mailto:i...@bsdimp.com>
> >     > <mailto:i...@bsdimp.com <mailto:i...@bsdimp.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM Jan Kiszka
> >     <jan.kis...@siemens.com <mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com>
> >     >     <mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com
> >     <mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >         On 02.09.25 19:07, Warner Losh wrote:
> >     >         >
> >     >         >
> >     >         > On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM Jan Lübbe
> >     <j...@pengutronix.de <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de>
> >     >         <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de>>
> >     >         > <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de>
> >     <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de <mailto:j...@pengutronix.de>>>> wrote:
> >     >         >
> >     >         >     On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 18:39 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >     >         >     > > > I expect us to be safe and able to deal with
> non-
> >     >         pow2 regions
> >     >         >     if we use
> >     >         >     > > > QEMUSGList from the "system/dma.h" API. But
> >     this is
> >     >         a rework
> >     >         >     nobody had
> >     >         >     > > > time to do so far.
> >     >         >     > >
> >     >         >     > > We have to tell two things apart: partitions
> >     sizes on
> >     >         the one
> >     >         >     side and
> >     >         >     > > backing storage sizes. The partitions sizes are
> >     (to my
> >     >         reading)
> >     >         >     clearly
> >     >         >     > > defined in the spec, and the user partition
> (alone!)
> >     >         has to be
> >     >         >     power of
> >     >         >     > > 2. The boot and RPMB partitions are multiples of
> >     128K.
> >     >         The sum
> >     >         >     of them
> >     >         >     > > all is nowhere limited to power of 2 or even only
> >     >         multiples of 128K.
> >     >         >     > >
> >     >         >     >
> >     >         >     > Re-reading the part of the device capacity, the
> rules
> >     >         are more
> >     >         >     complex:
> >     >         >     >  - power of two up to 2 GB
> >     >         >     >  - multiple of 512 bytes beyond that
> >     >         >     >
> >     >         >     > So that power-of-two enforcement was and still is
> >     likely
> >     >         too strict.
> >     >         >
> >     >         >
> >     >         > It is. Version 0 (and MMC) cards had the capacity
> >     encoded like so:
> >     >         >                 m = mmc_get_bits(raw_csd, 128, 62, 12);
> >     >         >                 e = mmc_get_bits(raw_csd, 128, 47, 3);
> >     >         >                 csd->capacity = ((1 + m) << (e + 2)) *
> csd-
> >     >         >read_bl_len;
> >     >         > so any card less than 2GB (well, technically 4GB, but 4GB
> >     >         version 0
> >     >         > cards were
> >     >         > rare and broke some stacks... I have one and I love it
> on my
> >     >         embedded
> >     >         > ARM board
> >     >         > that can't do version 1 cards). Version 1 cards encoded
> >     it like:
> >     >         >                 csd->capacity =
> >     >         ((uint64_t)mmc_get_bits(raw_csd, 128,
> >     >         > 48, 22) +
> >     >         >                     1) * 512 * 1024;
> >     >         > So it's a multiple of 512k. These are also called 'high
> >     >         capacity' cards.
> >     >         >
> >     >         > Version 4 introduces an extended CSD, which had a pure
> >     sector
> >     >         count in
> >     >         > the EXT CSD. I think this
> >     >         > is only for MMC cards. And also the partition
> information.
> >     >         >
> >     >         >
> >     >         >     > But I still see no indication, neither in the
> existing
> >     >         eMMC code
> >     >         >     of QEMU
> >     >         >     > nor the spec, that the boot and RPMB partition
> >     sizes are
> >     >         included
> >     >         >     in that.
> >     >         >
> >     >         >     Correct. Non-power-of-two sizes are very common for
> real
> >     >         eMMCs.
> >     >         >     Taking a random
> >     >         >     one from our lab:
> >     >         >     [    1.220588] mmcblk1: mmc1:0001 S0J56X 14.8 GiB
> >     >         >     [    1.228055]  mmcblk1: p1 p2 p3 p4
> >     >         >     [    1.230375] mmcblk1boot0: mmc1:0001 S0J56X 31.5
> MiB
> >     >         >     [    1.233651] mmcblk1boot1: mmc1:0001 S0J56X 31.5
> MiB
> >     >         >     [    1.236682] mmcblk1rpmb: mmc1:0001 S0J56X 4.00
> MiB,
> >     >         chardev (244:0)
> >     >         >
> >     >         >     For eMMCs using MLC NAND, you can also configure
> part of
> >     >         the user
> >     >         >     data area to
> >     >         >     be pSLC (pseudo single level cell), which changes the
> >     >         available
> >     >         >     capacity (after
> >     >         >     a required power cycle).
> >     >         >
> >     >         >
> >     >         > Yes. Extended partitions are a feature of version 4
> >     cards, so
> >     >         don't have
> >     >         > power-of-2 limits since they are a pure sector count in
> the
> >     >         ext_csd.
> >     >         >
> >     >
> >     >         JESD84-B51A (eMMC 5.1A):
> >     >
> >     >         "The C_SIZE parameter is used to compute the device
> >     capacity for
> >     >         devices
> >     >         up to 2 GB of density. See 7.4.52, SEC_COUNT [215:212] ,
> for
> >     >         details on
> >     >         calculating densities greater than 2 GB."
> >     >
> >     >         So I would now continue to enforce power-of-2 for 2G
> >     (including)
> >     >         cards,
> >     >         and relax to multiples of 512 for larger ones.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     It's a multiple of 512k unless the card has a ext_csd, in
> >     which case
> >     >     it's a multiple of 512.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > More completely, this is from MMC 4.0 and newer. Extended Capacity
> SD
> >     > cards report this in units of 512k bytes for all cards > 2GiB.
> >     >
> >
> >     I'm not sure which spec version you are referring to, but JESD84-A441
> >     and JESD84-B51A mention nothing about 512K, rather "Device density =
> >     SEC_COUNT x 512B". And these are the specs we very likely need to
> follow
> >     here.
> >
> >
> > You are right that this is in the MMC spec. However, the SD spec is
> > controlling for SD cards.
> >
> > SD Specifications Part 1 Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version
> > 9.10
> > December 1, 2023
> >
> > Section 5.3 describes the CSD. Version 1.0 (which I'd called version 0
> > in an earlier email because of its encoding) is the 2GB rule. Version
>
> < 2G or <= 2G? For eMMC, it is <=.
>
> > 2.0 and 3.0 encode it as 512k count (from 5.3.3):
> >
> > C_SIZE
> > This field is expanded to 28 bits and can indicate up to 128 TBytes.
> >
> > This parameter is used to calculate the user data area capacity in the
> > SD memory card (note that size of the protected area is zero for SDUC
> > card). The user data area capacity is calculated from C_SIZE as follows:
> >
> > memory capacity = (C_SIZE+1) * 512KByte
> >
> > The Minimum user area size of SDUC Card is 4,294,968,320 sectors
> > (2TB+0.5MB).
> > The Minimum value of C_SIZE for SDUC in CSD Version 3.0 is 0400000h
> > (4194304). The Maximum user area size of SDUC Card is 274,877,906,944
> > sectors (128TB).
> > The Maximum value of C_SIZE for SDUC in CSD Version 3.0 is FFFFFFFh
> > (268435455).
> >
> > So SD cards are yet again gratuitously different than MMC cards.
> >
>
> Argh, then we need to take the card type into account as well. Need to
> rework my patch...
>

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... I stubbed my toe on this when I wrote
the FreeBSD stack 15 years ago and the experience is memorable, even after
all this time.

Warner

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