Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

[merez@codeaurora.org]

On Wed, July 18, 2012 11:46 pm, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Yaniv,
>
> On Thu, Jun 28 2012, Yaniv Gardi wrote:
>> This feature delete the unmap memory region of the eMMC card,
>> by writing to a specific register in the EXT_CSD
>> unmap region is the memory region that were previously deleted
>> (by erase, trim or discard operation)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi <ygardi@codeaurora.org>
>
> Did you reply to Chuanxiao's review comments yet?  He said:
>
> "So to implement your scenario, how about only add
> mmc_blk_issue_sanitize_rq() for REQ_SANITIZE but not touch
> mmc_blk_issue_secdiscard_rq()? With your changes in
> mmc_blk_issue_secdiscard_rq(), eMMC4.5 device will be failed to operate
> secure trim/erase for REQ_SECURE request."
>
> at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/14822/focus=14880
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
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>

Secure trim and secure erase were removed from eMMC4.5. Please refer to
annex B at B.6 section in eMMC4.5 spec.
Therefore, failure upon trying to do secure trim/erase is the expected
behavior for eMMC4.5 devices.

Thanks,
Maya
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