On 12/07/12 08:02, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
> Hi, Adrian,
> 
> On 06/14/2012 10:46 PM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> 
>> On 08/06/12 07:39, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
>>> Enable eMMC background operations (BKOPS) feature.
>>>
>>> If URGENT_BKOPS is set after a response, note that BKOPS
>>> are required. After all I/O requests are finished, run
>>> BKOPS if required. Should read/write operations be requested
>>> during BKOPS, first issue HPI to interrupt the ongoing BKOPS
>>> and then service the request.
>>> If BKOPS-STATUS is upper than LEVEL2, need to check until clear
>>> the BKOPS-STATUS vaule. 
>>>
>>> If you want to enable this feature, set MMC_CAP2_BKOPS.
>>> And if you want to set the BKOPS_EN bit in ext_csd register,
>>> use the MMC_CAP2_INIT_BKOPS.
>>>
>>> Future considerations
>>>  * Check BKOPS_LEVEL=1 and start BKOPS in a preventive manner.
>>>  * Interrupt ongoing BKOPS before powering off the card.
>>>  * How get BKOPS_STATUS value.(periodically send ext_csd command?)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.ch...@samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.p...@samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Dorfman <kdorf...@codeaurora.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maya Erez <me...@codeaurora.org>
>>> ---
>>
>> I would not expect this to work nicely with runtime PM.  I expect that BKOPS
>> would need to be stopped beforehand.  But that would limit the time
>> available for BKOPS since runtime PM would always kick in and stop it.  How
>> is runtime PM to be handled?
> 
> I think that add some function like the mmc_runtime_pm_suspend().
> int mmc_runtime_pm_suspend()
> {
>       if running bkops {
>               waiting for limit time..=> (when upper than Level2)
>               otherwise don't wait
>               stop-bkops
>       } else
>               nothing..
> }
> Almost runtime PM is controlled at host side.
> So it's not very good that add the bkops control code at host side.
> How about this? i want to get your opinion.

Possibly, but ideally it should be controlled through the runtime PM API.
For example, sdhci uses pm_runtime_get / put which must be paired.
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