Re: [PATCH 0/3] mmc: Wait for card_busy before starting sdio requests

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Hi,

On 25-09-15 11:58, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
On 09/25/2015 06:41 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 25-09-15 11:37, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
Hi, Hans.

On 09/25/2015 04:53 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 24-09-15 18:04, Doug Anderson wrote:
Hi,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On 23-09-15 23:43, Ulf Hansson wrote:

On 22 September 2015 at 17:30, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ulf,

Here is a non RFC version of my patch-set to wait for card_busy before
starting sdio requests. It is the same as the RFC version of the set,
but this time it has been tested no hardware which actually needs this
and I can confirm now that this fixes wifi on that hardware.


Great! Thanks, applied for next!


Great, thanks, I guess it is too late for this to go as a fix into
4.3-rcX (no worries if it is) ?

This patch-set should also allow removing this dw_mmc specific fix:


https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c?id=0bdbd0e88cf6b603a2196418672715b0890fb040

As this patch-set fixes this problem in a generic manner.


Care to send a patch to remove the above hack/fix?


I do not have any hardware to test this.

I've added Doug the original author of that patch to the Cc.

Dough, can you test if with the patch set from this mail thread
(merged into mmc/next) this patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c?id=0bdbd0e88cf6b603a2196418672715b0890fb040

Is still necessary ? Since this patch-set fixes the same issue
in the mmc core I believe that this commit can be reverted now.

I'll try to find some time in the next few days to test, but I'm not
terribly hopeful we can just revert the patch because:

1. Only one of the two callers of dw_mci_wait_while_busy() is handled
by your patch.  mci_send_cmd() is used internally in dw_mmc to throw
something in the CMD register without going through the normal MMC
path.  This is used exclusively to update the clock registers in
dw_mmc.  I'm pretty sure this needs the wait, too.  It's always seemed
weird / awkward to me that you need to use the CMD register to update
clock settings in dw_mmc, but c'est la vie.

I would not expect the card to signal busy when trying to change clocks
though, so I do not think this will really be a problem.

No. It shouldn't be occurred any problem.
But according to designware TRM, it needs to check whether card is busy or not, before updating clock.
I think even if problem will not occur, it doesn't mean this code is useless.


2. If I remember correctly, we ran into other instances where non-SDIO
cards needed the busy check.  It wasn't terribly common, but I think I
ran into this when stress testing, but only on a few cards.

Hmm, that would be a problem yes.

The patch referenced here only seems to check for SDIO commands.  As I
understand it, to be correct, it should check for all data commands
(other than stop or voltage change commands).

But that is not what the patch does, it actually waits for all commands,
including non data commands. An earlier attempt of mine to fix the sdio
wifi issues with the sunxi driver copied your approach, and I actually
got reports of regressions with using normal micro-sd memory cards
from several people testing that patch.

I can't see any problem reported at mailing list.
Could you share more information what regressions issue?

IIRC people where hitting the timeout in the code to wait for the card-busy.

Now that I think about this, this may have been caused by waiting
for card-busy while sending a stop.

I understood what problem you said.
Well, but i don't accept your opinion yet.
Is that case reproduced with dwmmc controller? otherwise...sunxi driver?
(It seems that you mentioned the case of sunxi driver.)

I was talking about the sunxi driver only. A few weeks back I did a
patch for the sunxi driver which copied the dw-mmc fix, and some users
testing that saw issues accessing certain micro-sd memory cards.

Regards,

Hans
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