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This wraps single ioctl() commands into block requests using the custom block layer request types REQ_OP_DRV_IN and REQ_OP_DRV_OUT. By doing this we are loosening the grip on the big host lock, since two calls to mmc_get_card()/mmc_put_card() are removed. We are storing the ioctl() in/out argument as a pointer in the per-request struct mmc_blk_request container. Since we now let the block layer allocate this data, blk_get_request() will allocate it for us and we can immediately dereference it and use it to pass the argument into the block layer. We refactor the if/else/if/else ladder in mmc_blk_issue_rq() as part of the job, keeping some extra attention to the case when a NULL req is passed into this function and making that pipeline flush more explicit. Tested on the ux500 with the userspace: mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk3 resulting in a successful EXTCSD info dump back to the console. This commit fixes a starvation issue in the MMC/SD stack that can be easily provoked in the following way by issueing the following commands in sequence: > dd if=/dev/mmcblk3 of=/dev/null bs=1M & > mmc extcs read /dev/mmcblk3 Before this patch, the extcsd read command would hang (starve) while waiting for the dd command to finish since the block layer was holding the card/host lock. After this patch, the extcsd ioctl() command is nicely interpersed with the rest of the block commands and we can issue a bunch of ioctl()s from userspace while there is some busy block IO going on without any problems. Conversely userspace ioctl()s can no longer starve the block layer by holding the card/host lock. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Tested-by: Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@sandisk.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.