Hi

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Dong, Chuanxiao wrote:

> Hello Liakhovetski,
> 
> Right now I am facing some problem during kernel booting which indicate 
> caused by MMC driver. So I think I encountered the race condition you 
> mentioned below.

Which kernel are you using? With my patch or without it? What makes you 
think, that your problem is caused by a race in MMC? Races rarely occur 
reproducibly, so, it seems a bit unlikely to me during the boot process.

> I have gone through MMC stack code, seems sdhci_set_ios already wrapped 
> by spin lock/unlock, so I am a little not understanding why there is 
> still a race condition?

Again, are you referring to the kernel before my patch or after?

Thanks
Guennadi

> Is this race condition caused by sdhci_set_ios function reenter or 
> something else?
> 
> Thanks for your help on this.
> 
> BR
> Chuanxiao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mmc-ow...@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-mmc-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Guennadi Liakhovetski
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 2:08 AM
> To: linux...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org; Magnus Damm; Simon Horman; Linus Walleij
> Subject: [PATCH] MMC: fix a race between card-detect rescan and clock-gate 
> work instances
> 
> Currently there is a race in the MMC core between a card-detect
> rescan work and the clock-gating work, scheduled from a command
> completion. Fix it by removing the dedicated clock-gating mutex and
> using the MMC standard locking mechanism instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovet...@gmx.de>
> Cc: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
> Cc: Magnus Damm <d...@opensource.se>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/core/host.c  |    9 ++++-----
>  include/linux/mmc/host.h |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> index 461e6a1..2b200c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/host.c
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static void mmc_host_clk_gate_delayed(struct mmc_host *host)
>               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->clk_lock, flags);
>               return;
>       }
> -     mutex_lock(&host->clk_gate_mutex);
> +     mmc_claim_host(host);
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&host->clk_lock, flags);
>       if (!host->clk_requests) {
>               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->clk_lock, flags);
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static void mmc_host_clk_gate_delayed(struct mmc_host 
> *host)
>               pr_debug("%s: gated MCI clock\n", mmc_hostname(host));
>       }
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->clk_lock, flags);
> -     mutex_unlock(&host->clk_gate_mutex);
> +     mmc_release_host(host);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ void mmc_host_clk_ungate(struct mmc_host *host)
>  {
>       unsigned long flags;
>  
> -     mutex_lock(&host->clk_gate_mutex);
> +     mmc_claim_host(host);
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&host->clk_lock, flags);
>       if (host->clk_gated) {
>               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->clk_lock, flags);
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ void mmc_host_clk_ungate(struct mmc_host *host)
>       }
>       host->clk_requests++;
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->clk_lock, flags);
> -     mutex_unlock(&host->clk_gate_mutex);
> +     mmc_release_host(host);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ static inline void mmc_host_clk_init(struct mmc_host 
> *host)
>       host->clk_gated = false;
>       INIT_WORK(&host->clk_gate_work, mmc_host_clk_gate_work);
>       spin_lock_init(&host->clk_lock);
> -     mutex_init(&host->clk_gate_mutex);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> index bcb793e..eb792cb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> @@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ struct mmc_host {
>       struct work_struct      clk_gate_work; /* delayed clock gate */
>       unsigned int            clk_old;        /* old clock value cache */
>       spinlock_t              clk_lock;       /* lock for clk fields */
> -     struct mutex            clk_gate_mutex; /* mutex for clock gating */
>  #endif
>  
>       /* host specific block data */
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5
> 
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