This series builds on top of the previous series that created custom DRV_OP requests for ioctl() operations in MMC. The first patch is a suggestion from Christoph, the second builds infrastructure for issuing more, currently orthogonal custom operations through the block layer. The first operation we move over is pretty uncontroversial and straight-forward: it is the operation that write-protect-locks the boot partitions from sysfs. This is now done through the block layer so we do not need to congest and starve in the big MMC lock. The last two patches are more contoversial: they move the two debugfs accesses for reading card status and EXT CSD over to using the block layer funnel *if* *present*. So if the block layer is configured out, these will still issue operations directly and take the big MMC lock. The patch series is fully ABI safe: any scripts or code using the debugfs with or without the block layer will still work. However this leaves the mmc_card_get() locks in the block.h header for the !CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK case and I'm not really happy to keep them around, the idea is to terminate them. Ways forward after these patches: - Simply remove the debugfs files for status and ext_csd if the block layer is not there. The debugfs is not ABI after all, and there is an ioctl() to do the same job, and that is what mmc-utils is using. - Simply remove the debugfs files for status and ext_csd completely - and require users to switch to using the ioctl() mmc-utils way of doing things if they want to inspect their MMC/SD cards. - Wait and see: when I get to removing the big MMC lock from SDIO I will anyway have to deal with this mess since the big lock is no more a block layer problem, but a problem with the entire MMC/SD/SDIO stack. In any case: these patches fixes the starvation of the boot partition locking and the debugfs access when using the block layer heavily at the same time. Linus Walleij (6): mmc: block: remove req back pointer mmc: block: Tag DRV_OPs with a driver operation type mmc: block: Move DRV OP issue function mmc: block: Move boot partition locking into a driver op mmc: debugfs: Move card status retrieveal into the block layer mmc: debugfs: Move EXT CSD debugfs acces to block layer drivers/mmc/core/block.c | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- drivers/mmc/core/block.h | 49 +++++++++++++ drivers/mmc/core/debugfs.c | 19 +---- drivers/mmc/core/queue.c | 13 ++-- drivers/mmc/core/queue.h | 27 +++++++- 5 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3 -- 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
