Re: [PATCH 5.4.33 0/2] Fix for long operation cmds busy detection

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Apr 25 2020 - 03:04:14 EST


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 07:42:16PM -0700, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>
> On 4/24/20 6:45 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
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> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:06:04PM -0700, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> > > This series is to backport the upstream patches that fixes busy
> > > detection
> > > for long operation mmc commands by implementing Tegra specific timeout
> > > callback to switch between finite and infinite HW busy detection wait
> > > modes.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sowjanya Komatineni (2):
> > >  sdhci: tegra: Implement Tegra specific set_timeout callback
> > >  sdhci: tegra: Enable MMC_CAP_WAIT_WHILE_BUSY host capability
> >
> > What regression do these patches fix?
> >
> This isn't a regression as we don't have any known failures as of today with
> the specific mmc devices we are using on our platforms.

Have you read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
?

> But this patch fixes a long outstanding bug for sdhci-tegra to handle long
> busy wait for mmc command operations that may take longer than host max busy
> timeout. So, this is something that's missing from the beginning and good to
> have.

So it's a new feature?