On Monday 29 September 2014 15:46:10 Holger Schurig wrote:
> on kernel 3.16.3 running on an i.MX6 with an eMMC card formatting a
> partition won't work, it hangs. With an added -v the last thing it
> spit out is "Discarding device blocks: 4096/196608".
>
> When I run mkfs with "-E nodiscard", formatting & booting works.
>
>
> Noteworthy: when the eMMC device was still in virgin mode,
> partitioning without "-E nodiscard" worked. But last week I used the
> mmc tool to turn the user space into enhanced format. Basically, I
> first run "mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk0" and used the number after
> MAX_ENH_SIZE_MULT for an "mmc enh_area set -y 0 7651323 /dev/mmcblk0".
> Then, after a power-cycle, I also turned bkops on because kernel was
> complaining that it wasn't enabled. And since the default discard
> option of mkfs.ext3 doesn't seem to work anymore.
Are you sure that it's not just taking very long?
Can you try erasing a smaller region of the device using the program
below? Normally BLKDISCARD is very fast for a device that has been
erased or that is new, but depending on the device it can take a
while to erase actual data.
Arnd
----
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_DIRECT);
int ret;
unsigned long long range[2];
if (argc != 4) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <device> <start> <length>\n",
argv[0]);
}
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return errno;
}
range[0] = atoll(argv[2]);
range[1] = atoll(argv[3]);
printf("erasing %lld to %lld on %s\n", range[0], range[0] + range[1], argv[1]);
ret = ioctl(fd, BLKDISCARD, range);
if (ret)
perror("ioctl");
return errno;
}
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