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

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Hi Ulf,

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:26:30AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 23 April 2018 at 11:50, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Quentin, ping!
> 
> Just tell me if there is anything else I can help out with!
> 

Thanks for the ping, I'll have a look tomorrow evening or this week-end.

Looks weird to me that using this patch in the core resulted in an
unbalanced sdio_claim/release_host() while it was working with Hans's
hack.

I'll let you know if I'm getting lost :)

Thanks,
Quentin

> Kind regards
> Uffe

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