[PATCH] ARM: mx3: Fix a race condition in mxcmmc
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at mvista.com
Tue Apr 27 06:14:03 EDT 2010
Hello.
Daniel Mack wrote:
> The patch below is a result of more MMC/SDIO tests on MX31 hardware.
>
> From 1b01327ff9c50980c31d7afa3fb6b314eb152fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Volker Ernst <volker.ernst at txtr.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:51:07 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mx3: Fix a race condition in mxcmmc
>
> This fixes a race condition regarding interrupt bits in the SDHC
> controller driver code.
>
> In case of PIO-transfer it does not clear SDHC-status bit#11/12
> in the INT-handler anymore. INT-handler might be called during
> an ongoing PIO-data-transfer (with some other INT-flag set) and
> PIO-transfer depends on these bits being set to detect the end
> of the data-transfer. This also means that at the end of PIO-
> transfer that PIO-software has to clear these bits itself.
>
> However in case of DMA-transfer these bits have to be cleared
> in the INT-handler, because they are used to generate INTs then.
>
> Works solid, no more problems here, can transfer big files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Volker Ernst <volker.ernst at txtr.com>
> Acked-by: Daniel Mack <daniel at caiaq.de>
> Cc: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>
> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
> index 2c53024..d625702 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
> @@ -489,6 +489,8 @@ static void mxcmci_datawork(struct work_struct *work)
> struct mxcmci_host *host = container_of(work, struct mxcmci_host,
> datawork);
> int datastat = mxcmci_transfer_data(host);
> + writel(STATUS_READ_OP_DONE | STATUS_WRITE_OP_DONE, host->base + MMC_REG_STATUS);
Spaces instead of tab here...
WBR, Sergei
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