Re: w1/ds1wm regression after 2.6.39: "bus error, retrying"

[Jean-François Dagenais]

On 2011-06-24, at 17:32, Paul Parsons wrote:

> Here's the debug output from ds1wm_search():
> 
> ds1wm ds1wm: search begin
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 r : 0x0000000000000000 writing SEARCH_ROM
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 entering ASM
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 begining nibble loop
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 r': 0xd300001085da8430 d:0x0000000000000000
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 nibble loop complete, exiting ASM
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 resetting bus
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 found 0xd300001085da8430
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 complete, preparing next pass
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 new d:0x0000000000000000 MS discrep bit:-1
> ds1wm ds1wm: pass: 1 total: 1 search done ms d bit pos: -1
> 
> The hx4700 does indeed have a ds2760 connected to the ds1wm. I believe the ds1wm is integrated into the HTC ASIC3, but my knowledge of the hardware is almost zero.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
Hi again Paul,

This seems to be the output after you have restored the msleep. Could you provide it without so we can get a better idea as to what happened. If indeed this is a major regression for many devices, we'll have to submit a patch to the main branch.
/jfd
> 
> --- On Fri, 24/6/11, Jean-François Dagenais <dagenaisj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The sleep I removed there only delays the time between the
>> reset pulse and the function exiting, it doesn't populate
>> the "slave_present" variable with a different value. The
>> reset pulse and the wait that the ds1wm implements (by
>> raising an interrupt at the end of it all) is spec'ed on the
>> 1-wire specification, and the DS1WM_TIMEOUT is a really long
>> time. So there should be plenty of time for the slaves to
>> acknowledge the reset and participate in further
>> communications.
>> 
>> So here's my hunch. We observed this here on our circuit
>> too. It is possible that the pull-up resistor on your
>> circuit is too resistive which would make the slave device
>> fail to properly come back to life after the reset pulse
>> (bus shorted to the ground) when the drain opens, and hence
>> not able to cope well with the search that follows. The 1ms
>> wait basically gives the slave(s) time to charge up again
>> (with the drain open, the voltage is high).
>> 
>> The weird thing is that the ds1wm_reset function returns 0,
>> since the while loop executes more than once, so it did find
>> a slave (slave_present obtained from the PDR status bit), so
>> the slave is kinda there... But the search fails somehow
>> after that. Maybe there is something in your slave's spec
>> sheet that could help, although the ds1wm reset timings. So
>> I still think the debug trace and knowing if you have only
>> one slave on the bus would help me figure this out. New
>> question: what slave(s)? is it the DS2760?
>> 
>> PS: there are also controls in the DS1WM_CNTRL register
>> that has to do with strong-pull-ups which are just not used
>> by the driver yet. refer to: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/DS1WM.pdf
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