Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Introduce the request_atomic() for the host

[Baolin Wang]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:25 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17/03/20 12:14 pm, Baolin Wang wrote:
> > This patch set introduces a new request_atomic() interface for the
> > MMC host controller, which is used to submit a request to host in
> > the atomic context, such as in the irq hard handler, to reduce the
> > request latency.
> >
> > Any comments are welcome. Thanks.
> >
> > Note: Adrian pointed out that it is not good if moving the polling of
> > inhibit bits in sdhci_send_command() into the interrupt context, but
> > now I have not found a better way to address Adrian's concern. Moveover
> > this is an unusual abnormal case and the original code has the same
> > problem, so I plan to create another patch set to talk about and fix
> > this issue.
>
> I tend to think the API requires the possibility for host controllers to
> return "busy", so that should be sorted out first.

If request_atomic() can return 'busy', the HSQ need queue a work to
dispatch this request to host again?

I am thinking if I can introduce a new flag to avoid polling the
status before sending commands, cause from the datasheet, I did not
see we should need do this if the command complete and transfer
complete interrupts are processed normally. At least on my platfrom, I
did not see the inhibit bits are set. If we meet this issue, I think
some abormal things are happened, we should give out errors. How do
you think?

> >
> > Changes from v1:
> >  - Re-split the changes to make them more clear suggested by Ulf.
> >  - Factor out the auto CMD23 checking into a separate function.
> >
> > Baolin Wang (3):
> >   mmc: host: Introduce the request_atomic() for the host
> >   mmc: host: sdhci: Implement the request_atomic() API
> >   mmc: host: sdhci-sprd: Implement the request_atomic() API
> >
> >  drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.c    |  5 ++++-
> >  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-sprd.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h      |  1 +
> >  include/linux/mmc/host.h      |  3 +++
> >  5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
>


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Baolin Wang