2009/9/5 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 2009/9/4 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Note that when you rever this patch on a current kernel you do actually >>>> get different behvaviour than when going back to before this commit. >>>> >>>> In 2.6.30 we called ->write_super in the various sync functions and >>>> then ->sync_fs, in 2.6.31-rc8 you would not call any syncing at all >>>> anymore. I think this patch might just be a symptom for a situation >>>> where the suspend code causes a sync and the mmc driver can't handle >>>> it anymore. >> >> So - here is the console trace from suspend when I've added >> dump_stack() to the fat_sync_fs() (and also added debug prints >> around each call in this function -so its obvious the function is >> actually left - but then it freezes later somewhere.) >> >> It's interesting that 3 calls to sync happens. > > It seems > > 1) sync() (probabry "sync" command) > 2) sync as part of suspend sequence > 3) sync_filesystem() by mmc remove event > > I guess the root-cause of the problem would be 3). However, it would not > be easy to fix, at least, we would need to think about what we want to > do for it. So, to workaround it for now, I've made this patch. > > Can you try whether this patch fixes this problem? > So I've tested your patch - it seems to fix the problem in suspend - the machine sleeps - however after resume the mmc SD card becomes unusable to the system and appended call trace filled my message log very quickly: After reboot the filesystem appeared to be usable again without errors. Call Trace: [<ffffffff81134f6b>] __getblk+0x2cb/0x300 [<ffffffff813dcb58>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x80 [<ffffffff81135122>] __breadahead+0x12/0x40 [<ffffffffa0520cb7>] fat_count_free_clusters+0x307/0x320 [fat] [<ffffffff81103a58>] ? check_object+0xd8/0x260 [<ffffffff8107d83d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffffa0522d55>] fat_statfs+0xf5/0x110 [fat] [<ffffffff8110be5c>] vfs_statfs+0x7c/0xa0 [<ffffffff8110c0b0>] vfs_statfs_native+0x20/0xb0 [<ffffffff8110c243>] sys_statfs+0x73/0xb0 [<ffffffff8122ab2b>] ? __up_write+0xcb/0x120 [<ffffffff8100c18c>] ? sysret_check+0x27/0x62 [<ffffffff8109eb8b>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x28b/0x2b0 [<ffffffff8107d7ed>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x15d/0x1a0 [<ffffffff813dbf1e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff8100c15b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b getblk(): invalid block size 512 requested logical block size: 27499 [<ffffffff81135122>] __breadahead+0x12/0x40 [<ffffffffa0520cb7>] fat_count_free_clusters+0x307/0x320 [fat] [<ffffffff81103a58>] ? check_object+0xd8/0x260 [<ffffffff8107d83d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffffa0522d55>] fat_statfs+0xf5/0x110 [fat] [<ffffffff8110be5c>] vfs_statfs+0x7c/0xa0 [<ffffffff8110c0b0>] vfs_statfs_native+0x20/0xb0 [<ffffffff8110c243>] sys_statfs+0x73/0xb0 [<ffffffff8122ab2b>] ? __up_write+0xcb/0x120 [<ffffffff8100c18c>] ? sysret_check+0x27/0x62 [<ffffffff8109eb8b>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x28b/0x2b0 [<ffffffff8107d7ed>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x15d/0x1a0 [<ffffffff813dbf1e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff8100c15b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Zdenek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html