Re: Bugs in MMC [was: [Bug 10030] Suspend doesn't work when SD card is inserted]

Alan Stern
2008-03-01T14:36:46Z

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Pierre Ossman wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:00:51 -0500 (EST)
> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe a better approach would be to leave the workqueue unfreezable,
> > and keep cancel_delayed_work_sync() in mmc_suspend_host(). It would
> > then be necessary to add a test to verify, if there is a card attached,
> > that the card is indeed suspended. After all, it's possible that the
> > cancel_delayed_work_sync() ended up waiting for a job already running
> > on the workqueue to register a new card! (The same would be true even
> > with flush_scheduled_work.)
>
> How would that be handled? I'd prefer a patch as I'm evidently not up to date with how to fondle the pm stuff properly. :)

The easiest way to do this will be to wait until some planned updates
are added to the PM core; then this will be a quick and simple change.
That probably means waiting until after 2.6.25 is released, however.

> > Also, as a bit of defensive programming, it might be a good idea to add
> > a "suspended" flag to the mmc_host structure. If mmc_rescan() sees
> > that the flag is set then it should return immediately. This would
> > protect against host drivers that aren't careful to disable detect
> > IRQs before calling mmc_suspend_host().
>
> Indeed. I'll add that to my todo.

That could go in along with the previous change. The PM update
mentioned above involves adding a "suspended" flag to every struct
device. With that available, this amounts to nothing more than an
extra test added at the beginning of mmc_rescan().

Alan Stern