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

[Jaehoon Chung]

Hi,

On 09/25/2015 01:04 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 23-09-15 23:43, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 22 September 2015 at 17:30, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> 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.
> 
> 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.  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).  The Designware Databook
> makes no reference to only needing the wait for SDIO commands.

I agreed absolutely for Doug's comment.

Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung

> 
> 
> ...of course, it's always possible that some of the things I saw above
> will no longer happen with all the other fixes we've done in the
> meantime (turning on voltages at the right time, adding the right
> delays, etc).
> 
> 
> Note that I've hardly looked at sdhci at all, but on SDHCI is this
> handled by the "SDHCI_DATA_INHIBIT" bits?
> 
> 
> -Doug
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