Re: [PATCH] mmc: core: Force a "detect" to handle non-properly removed cards

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Adrian Hunter wrote:
On 09/01/12 15:14, Ulf Hansson wrote:
My concern is more about what we actually can trust; either the GPIO irq
which likely is giving more than one irq when inserting/removing a card
since the slot is probably not glitch free, or that a "rescan" runs to make
sure a CMD13 is accepted from the previously inserted card.
Yes, I guess you would need to debounce the GPIO if you wanted to rely on it.

Moreover, the issue this patch tries to solve can not be solved without
doing a "rescan" which must be triggered from the the block layer some how.
I thought this new function that you previously added
"mmc_detect_card_remove" was the proper place to do this.

Let the mmc_detect_card_removed function trigger a new detect
work immediately when it discovers that a card has been removed.
This is changing some long-standing functionality i.e. the card is not
removed
without a card detect event.  It is difficult to know whether that will be
very
bad for poor quality cards,
Doing a mmc_detect (rescan) will in the end just issue a CMD13 to the card
to make sure it is still present, that is already done from the block layer
after each read/write request. So I can not see that "poor quality cards"
will have any further problem with this patch, but I might miss something!?
The block driver has never caused a card to be removed before.  That is new
and it is designed to preserve existing behaviour i.e. do not remove a card
without a card detect event.
True, but is this a problem!?

Better not to find out.

:-)

Then there is lot of other things around mmc we also should not change.


Anyway, this is the actual issue this patch is trying to solve. If you
remove a card "slowly", a "rescan" work, which the GPIO irq has triggered to
run will run the CMD13 to verify that the card is still there. Since it has
not completely been removed the CMD13 will succeed and the card will not be
removed.

Moreover every other new block request will soon start to fail and always
do; until a new rescan is triggered (which is when you insert a new card or
do a suspend-resume cycle). In practice I think it is more preferred that
the card gets removed and it's corresponding block device.

There are other ways to solve that problem.  Apart from my previous
suggestion, there is also the possibility to make use of ->get_cd
instead of CMD13, someone already posted a patch for that
"[PATCH 2/4 v4] MMC/SD: Add callback function to detect card"
but it should probably be selected on a per driver basis (i.e. add a
MMC_CAP2 for it).  I guess you would still need to debounce the GPIO
though.


Unfortunately that wont help to solve this issue either. That patch will only prevent you from executing a CMD13 if the get_cd function says the card is still there. I kind of micro optimization I think, unless you very often encounters errors in the block layer.

The key in this patch is that a rescan work is triggered to fully verify that the card is still there and if not, it can remove it. I don't think this is such a big matter, but of course this is my own opinion. :-)

You are assuming:
    1. that a poor quality card will not return errors for a few
    commands and then resume operation
I see your point. I did some tests with a bunch of old crappy cards, both SD
and MMC which I had in my collection. I have found none of these to trigger
a undesirable removal of the card.

Of course I have only a subset of all cards, so this can not be fully tested
for all existing cards.

    2. that removing a card on error is desirable
Well, we will just fire of a rescan work to check if the card has been
removed. If it is still there it will of course not be removed.

Not if it has stopped responding.  Again, this is a change in behaviour.
Previously, a card that stopped responding was not removed.

Perhaps in the future someone will want to try to recover cards that
stop responding, for example by power-cycling.  That would be in
conflict with your approach because it would power cycle on every single
card removal.

Both those assumptions may be true, but there is no evidence that they are.


This will solve the described issue above. Moreover we make sure
the detect work is executed as soon as possible, since there is
no reason for waiting for a "delayed" detect to happen.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson<ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/mmc/core/core.c  |   24 +++++++++++++-----------
  include/linux/mmc/host.h |    1 -
  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c
index 4770807..7bc02f4 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c
@@ -1462,7 +1462,6 @@ void mmc_detect_change(struct mmc_host *host,
unsigned long delay)
      WARN_ON(host->removed);
      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->lock, flags);
  #endif
-    host->detect_change = 1;
      mmc_schedule_delayed_work(&host->detect, delay);
  }

@@ -2077,18 +2076,23 @@ int _mmc_detect_card_removed(struct mmc_host
*host)
  int mmc_detect_card_removed(struct mmc_host *host)
  {
      struct mmc_card *card = host->card;
+    int ret = 1;

      WARN_ON(!host->claimed);
-    /*
-     * The card will be considered unchanged unless we have been asked to
-     * detect a change or host requires polling to provide card
detection.
-     */
- if (card&& !host->detect_change&& !(host->caps& MMC_CAP_NEEDS_POLL))
-        return mmc_card_removed(card);

-    host->detect_change = 0;
+    if (card&&  !mmc_card_removed(card)) {
+        if (_mmc_detect_card_removed(host)) {
+            /*
+             * Make sure a detect work is always executed and also
+             * do it as soon as possible.
+             */
+            cancel_delayed_work(&host->detect);
+            mmc_detect_change(host, 0);
+        }
+        ret = mmc_card_removed(card);
+    }

-    return _mmc_detect_card_removed(host);
+    return ret;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmc_detect_card_removed);

@@ -2112,8 +2116,6 @@ void mmc_rescan(struct work_struct *work)
      &&  !(host->caps&  MMC_CAP_NONREMOVABLE))
          host->bus_ops->detect(host);

-    host->detect_change = 0;
-
      /*
       * Let mmc_bus_put() free the bus/bus_ops if we've found that
       * the card is no longer present.
diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
index 031d865..09fa5e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
@@ -305,7 +305,6 @@ struct mmc_host {
      int            claim_cnt;    /* "claim" nesting count */

      struct delayed_work    detect;
-    int            detect_change;    /* card detect flag */
      struct mmc_hotplug    hotplug;

      const struct mmc_bus_ops *bus_ops;    /* current bus driver */
Br
Ulf Hansson






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