Seungwon,
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014, Sonny Rao wrote:
>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Yuvaraj Kumar <yuvaraj.cd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Any comments on this patch?
>> >
>>
>> I'll just add that without this fix, running the tuning loop for UHS
>> modes is not reliable on dw_mmc because errors will happen and you
>> will eventually hit this race and hang. This can happen any time
>> there is tuning like during boot or during resume from suspend.
>>
>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Yuvaraj Kumar C D
>> > <yuvaraj.cd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> From: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> If we happened to get a data error at just the wrong time the dw_mmc
>> >> driver could get into a state where it would never complete its
>> >> request. That would leave the caller just hanging there.
>> >>
>> >> We fix this two ways and both of the two fixes on their own appear to
>> >> fix the problems we've seen:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Fix a race in the tasklet where the interrupt setting the data
>> >> error happens _just after_ we check for it, then we get a
>> >> EVENT_XFER_COMPLETE. We fix this by repeating a bit of code.
> I think repeating is not good approach to fix race.
> In your case, XFER_COMPLETE preceded data error and DTO didn't come?
> It seems strange case.
> I want to know actual error value if you can reproduce.
XFER_COMPLETE didn't necessarily precede data error. Imagine this scenario:
1. Check for data error: nope
2. Interrupt happens and we get a data error and immediately xfer complete
3. Check for xfer complete: yup
That's the state that we are handling.
The system that dw_mmc uses where the interrupt handler has no locking
makes it incredibly difficult to get things right. Can you propose an
alternate fix that would avoid the race?
>> >> 2. Fix it so that if we detect that we've got an error in the "data
>> >> busy" state and we're not going to do anything else we end the
>> >> request and unblock anyone waiting.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Yuvaraj Kumar C D <yuvaraj.cd@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
>> >> index 1d77431..4c589f1 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
>> >> @@ -1300,6 +1300,14 @@ static void dw_mci_tasklet_func(unsigned long priv)
>> >> /* fall through */
>> >>
>> >> case STATE_SENDING_DATA:
>> >> + /*
>> >> + * We could get a data error and never a transfer
>> >> + * complete so we'd better check for it here.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * Note that we don't really care if we also got a
>> >> + * transfer complete; stopping the DMA and sending an
>> >> + * abort won't hurt.
>> >> + */
>> >> if (test_and_clear_bit(EVENT_DATA_ERROR,
>> >> &host->pending_events)) {
>> >> dw_mci_stop_dma(host);
>> >> @@ -1313,7 +1321,29 @@ static void dw_mci_tasklet_func(unsigned long priv)
>> >> break;
>> >>
>> >> set_bit(EVENT_XFER_COMPLETE, &host->completed_events);
>> >> +
>> >> + /*
>> >> + * Handle an EVENT_DATA_ERROR that might have shown up
>> >> + * before the transfer completed. This might not have
>> >> + * been caught by the check above because the interrupt
>> >> + * could have gone off between the previous check and
>> >> + * the check for transfer complete.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * Technically this ought not be needed assuming we
>> >> + * get a DATA_COMPLETE eventually (we'll notice the
>> >> + * error and end the request), but it shouldn't hurt.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * This has the advantage of sending the stop command.
>> >> + */
>> >> + if (test_and_clear_bit(EVENT_DATA_ERROR,
>> >> + &host->pending_events)) {
>> >> + dw_mci_stop_dma(host);
>> >> + send_stop_abort(host, data);
>> >> + state = STATE_DATA_ERROR;
>> >> + break;
>> >> + }
>> >> prev_state = state = STATE_DATA_BUSY;
>> >> +
>> >> /* fall through */
>> >>
>> >> case STATE_DATA_BUSY:
>> >> @@ -1336,6 +1366,23 @@ static void dw_mci_tasklet_func(unsigned long priv)
>> >> /* stop command for open-ended transfer*/
>> >> if (data->stop)
>> >> send_stop_abort(host, data);
>> >> + } else {
>> >> + /*
>> >> + * If we don't have a command complete now we'll
>> >> + * never get one since we just reset everything;
>> >> + * better end the request.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * If we do have a command complete we'll fall
>> >> + * through to the SENDING_STOP command and
>> >> + * everything will be peachy keen.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * TODO: I guess we shouldn't send a stop?
>> >> + */
>> >> + if (!test_bit(EVENT_CMD_COMPLETE,
>> >> + &host->pending_events)) {
>> >> + dw_mci_request_end(host, mrq);
>> >> + goto unlock;
>> >> + }
> Can you explain what happens above?
> What is it for?
This was an alternate fix for the above, but appears to actually hit
in practice too.
Said another way: if we don't add the extra checking for
EVENT_DATA_ERROR (above) we'll end up here. ...and if we ever get
into this "else" and don't do _something_ then we'll wedge forever.
-Doug
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