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From:   Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:35:15 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Introduce the request_atomic() for the host
To:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:07 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/03/20 3:49 pm, Baolin Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:25 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> 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?
>
> Sounds reasonable
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> For the atomic path, some kind of warning would be ok.

OK. I will try in next version. Thanks.

> >
> >>>
> >>> 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(-)
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>


-- 
Baolin Wang