-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Hunter [mailto:adrian.hunter at nokia.com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 5:14 PM
To: Ghorai, Sukumar
Cc: linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: failure of block read wait for long time

ext Ghorai, Sukumar wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Hunter [mailto:adrian.hunter at nokia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:11 PM
To: Ghorai, Sukumar
Cc: linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: failure of block read wait for long time

ext Ghorai, Sukumar wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Hunter [mailto:adrian.hunter at nokia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:52 PM
To: Ghorai, Sukumar
Cc: linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: failure of block read wait for long time

Sukumar Ghorai wrote:

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 multi-block read failure retries in single block read one by one.

It

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continues

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 retry of subsequent blocks, even after failure. Application will

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able

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 to decode the interleave data (even if few single block read

success).

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 This patch fixes this problem by returning at the first failure

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 waiting for long duration.

How can you know what sectors are important to the upper layers?

[Ghorai]
1. This is obvious either give the complete data to above layer or not.

And every protocol follows that.

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2. And other scenario, say apps request for to read the 128MB data and

it will take quite long time before returning in failure case.

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3. it is quite obvious if the read fail for sector(x) it will fail for

sector(x+1)
None of that is exactly true.  However you could change the retry
from sectors to segments e.g.

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
index d545f79..5ed15f6 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c

@@ -321,13 +321,14 @@ static int mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq(struct mmc_queue

*mq,

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struct request *req)
 	struct mmc_blk_data *md = mq->data;
 	struct mmc_card *card = md->queue.card;
 	struct mmc_blk_request brq;
-	int ret = 1, disable_multi = 0;
+	int ret = 1, retrying = 0;

 	mmc_claim_host(card->host);

 	do {
 		struct mmc_command cmd;
 		u32 readcmd, writecmd, status = 0;
+		unsigned int blocks;

 		memset(&brq, 0, sizeof(struct mmc_blk_request));
 		brq.mrq.cmd = &brq.cmd;

@@ -341,23 +342,26 @@ static int mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq(struct mmc_queue

*mq,

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struct request *req)
 		brq.stop.opcode = MMC_STOP_TRANSMISSION;
 		brq.stop.arg = 0;
 		brq.stop.flags = MMC_RSP_SPI_R1B | MMC_RSP_R1B | MMC_CMD_AC;
-		brq.data.blocks = blk_rq_sectors(req);
+
+		/*
+		 * After a read error, we redo the request one segment at a
time
+		 * in order to accurately determine which segments can be read
+		 * successfully.
+		 */
+		if (retrying)
+			blocks = blk_rq_cur_sectors(req);
+		else
+			blocks = blk_rq_sectors(req);

 		/*
 		 * The block layer doesn't support all sector count
 		 * restrictions, so we need to be prepared for too big
 		 * requests.
 		 */
-		if (brq.data.blocks > card->host->max_blk_count)
-			brq.data.blocks = card->host->max_blk_count;
+		if (blocks > card->host->max_blk_count)
+			blocks = card->host->max_blk_count;

-		/*
-		 * After a read error, we redo the request one sector at a
time
-		 * in order to accurately determine which sectors can be read
-		 * successfully.
-		 */
-		if (disable_multi && brq.data.blocks > 1)
-			brq.data.blocks = 1;
+		brq.data.blocks = blocks;

 		if (brq.data.blocks > 1) {
 			/* SPI multiblock writes terminate using a special

@@ -418,11 +422,14 @@ static int mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq(struct mmc_queue

*mq,

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struct request *req)
 		 * programming mode even when things go wrong.
 		 */
 		if (brq.cmd.error || brq.data.error || brq.stop.error) {
-			if (brq.data.blocks > 1 && rq_data_dir(req) == READ) {
-				/* Redo read one sector at a time */
-				printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: retrying using single "
-				       "block read\n", req->rq_disk->disk_name);
-				disable_multi = 1;
+			if (!retrying && rq_data_dir(req) == READ &&
+			    blk_rq_cur_sectors(req) &&
+			    blk_rq_cur_sectors(req) < blocks) {
+				/* Redo read one segment at a time */
+				printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: retrying read one "
+						    "segment at a time\n",
+						    req->rq_disk->disk_name);
+				retrying = 1;
 				continue;
 			}
 			status = get_card_status(card, req);

@@ -486,12 +493,13 @@ static int mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq(struct mmc_queue

*mq,

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struct request *req)
 		if (brq.cmd.error || brq.stop.error || brq.data.error) {
 			if (rq_data_dir(req) == READ) {
 				/*
-				 * After an error, we redo I/O one sector at a
+				 * After an error, we redo I/O one segment at a
 				 * time, so we only reach here after trying to
-				 * read a single sector.
+				 * read a single segment.  Error out the whole
+				 * segment and continue to the next.
 				 */
 				spin_lock_irq(&md->lock);
-				ret = __blk_end_request(req, -EIO,
brq.data.blksz);
+				ret = __blk_end_request(req, -EIO,
blk_rq_cur_sectors(req) << 9);
 				spin_unlock_irq(&md->lock);
 				continue;
 			}

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Signed-off-by: Sukumar Ghorai <redacted>
---
 drivers/mmc/card/block.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
index cb9fbc8..cfb0827 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c

@@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ static int mmc_blk_issue_rq(struct mmc_queue *mq,

struct request *req)

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 				spin_lock_irq(&md->lock);
 				ret = __blk_end_request(req, -EIO,

brq.data.blksz);

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 				spin_unlock_irq(&md->lock);
-				continue;
 			}
 			goto cmd_err;
 		}
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[Ghorai] Adrian,
Yes this works and reduced the retry by 1/4 (2048 to 512 times for 1MB

data read) form the original code;

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Initially it was retrying for each page(512 bytes) after multi-block

read fail; but this solution is retying for each segment(2048 bytes);

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1. Now say block layrer reading 1MB and failed for the 1st segment. So

it will still retry for 1MB/2048-bytes, i.e. 512 times.

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2. So do you think any good reason to retry again and again?

If you have 1MB that is not readable, it sounds like the card is broken.
Why are so many reads failing?  Has the card been removed?

You might very rarely see ECC errors in a small number of sectors,
but more than that sounds like something else is broken.

[Ghorai] yes, one example is we remove the card when reading data, 
And moreover we should not give the interleave data to apps, as we don't have option to tell application for the valid data.

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3. And again I mentioned how to inform the blok-layer that which segment

having the valid data?

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And I was suggesting for not to retry again if 1st retry (single block)

failed.

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http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/2714

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Ghorai