Re: [PATCH 0/5] mmc: sdio: Enable SW reset of SDIO cards

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On 14 April 2018 at 13:25, Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ulf and Hans,
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi Ulf,
>>
>> On 05-04-18 22:19, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> > It's rather common that SDIO func devices becomes loaded with a new firmware as
>> > a part of the SDIO func driver being probed. However, in some special scenarios
>> > the SDIO func device needs a SW reset, as to start running the new firmware.
>> >
>> > More importantly, a full power cycle doesn't work, as that would reset also the
>> > firmware, thus the existing mmc_hw_reset() API can't be used to deal with these
>> > scenarios.
>> >
>> > Therefore this series suggest to add a new API, mmc_sw_reset(), which resets
>> > and re-initialize the SDIO card. A couple of the patches in the series are
>> > mostly re-factorings making generic improvements to the related code.
>> >
>> > For more background to this series, feel free to digest the discussions from
>> > the submitted patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9857175/
>> >
>> > It should be noted, at this point this series has only be compile tested. Help
>> > with tests and deployment of using the new API is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you for this series, I've taken a quick look and it looks good,
>> but the proof is in the pudding. Quentin can you test this on an ARM
>> board with an ESP8089 sometime the coming week?
>>
>
> I applied your patches on top of next-20180406.
>
> I may need some help to get the ESP8089 driver to work. Note that I'm
> very new to MMC and SDIO, just so you know (and so you can adapt your
> answer).
>
> It's filling my kernel log buffer with a lot of these[1]. I've basically
> replaced Hans's mmc_force_detect_change() by your mmc_sw_reset() in
> esp_sdio_probe() of the ESP8089 driver and that's it. Here is my old
> patch series for ESP8089[2].
>
> I can't say if it's an error in your patch series or me using it the
> wrong way.
>
> Could you help me debug this so that we can make the "weird" SDIO
> devices such as the ESP8089 work in the kernel :)?
>
> I'll try to mount my rootfs from something else than an initramfs so
> that it may solve my problem of dmesg not showing the whole log.
>
> [1] http://code.bulix.org/eechlb-318686

Unless I am misstaken, it looks like the messages comes from a
WARN_ON(!host->claimed); in mmc_wait_for_cmd().

Did you call sdio_claim_host() before calling mmc_sw_reset()? And then
of course you need to release the host when you are ready executing
the required operations, sdio_release_host().

> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/21/386
>
> Let me know how I can be helpful,
> Thanks,
> Quentin

Kind regards
Uffe
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