Re: [PATCH 1/2] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Dec 09 2010 - 06:56:55 EST


At Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:19:47 +0100,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> At Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:42:25 +0200,
> Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> >
> > Based partialy on spec quotes from Alex Dubov.
> >
> > As any code that works with user data this driver isn't recommened to use
> > with valuable data.
> >
> > It tries its best though to avoid data corruption and possible damage to
> > the card.
> >
> > Tested with MS DUO 64 MB card on Ricoh and Jmicron reader.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Oh, this is interesting. Just now I looked for a solution for the old
> MS with new JMicron controllers. (I should have checked mm tree
> beforehand...)
>
> I'll give it a try and report back later.

I tried your patch now.
But got a WARNING and errors without working properly:

[ 86.894497] WARNING: at drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c:255 msb_run_state_machine+0x90/0xb0 [ms_block]()
[ 86.894502] Hardware name:
[ 86.894504] Modules linked in: ms_block(+) nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat mmc_block netconsole configfs nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc af_packet i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit snd_pcm_oss cpufreq_conservative snd_mixer_oss cpufreq_userspace snd_seq cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf binfmt_misc snd_seq_device edd ipv6 fuse loop dm_mod acpiphp pci_hotplug snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_idt processor rtc_cmos snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer uvcvideo video thermal thermal_sys snd rtc_core sr_mod soundcore snd_page_alloc sdhci_pci hwmon videodev cdrom r8169 rtc_lib v4l1_compat tpm_tis tpm intel_agp tpm_bios pcspkr hp_accel intel_gtt iTCO_wdt jmb38x_ms memstick sdhci mmc_core mii iTCO_vendor_support sg joydev lis3lv02d serio_raw i2c_core input_polldev output wmi container button battery ac ata_piix sd_mod crc_t10dif ehci_hcd ahci libahci libata usbcore scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache
[ 86.895023] Pid: 4606, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.37-rc5-test #2
[ 86.895037] Call Trace:
[ 86.895048] [<f84fa460>] ? msb_run_state_machine+0x90/0xb0 [ms_block]
[ 86.895062] [<f84fa460>] ? msb_run_state_machine+0x90/0xb0 [ms_block]
[ 86.895080] [<c0241d6c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0xa0
[ 86.895092] [<f84fa460>] ? msb_run_state_machine+0x90/0xb0 [ms_block]
[ 86.895105] [<f84fc280>] ? h_msb_reset+0x0/0x90 [ms_block]
[ 86.895118] [<c0241dbd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[ 86.895132] [<f84fa460>] msb_run_state_machine+0x90/0xb0 [ms_block]
[ 86.895151] [<f84fa52c>] msb_reset+0xac/0x130 [ms_block]
[ 86.895169] [<f84fc9db>] msb_probe+0x6b/0xcc8 [ms_block]
[ 86.895175] [<c0337345>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x15/0xc0
[ 86.895187] [<c0337d75>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0xb5/0x1b0
[ 86.895191] [<c0337345>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x15/0xc0
[ 86.895212] [<f92ba344>] memstick_device_probe+0x34/0x50 [memstick]
[ 86.895228] [<c042cbf5>] driver_probe_device+0x95/0x280
[ 86.895233] [<c038be9a>] ? kobject_add_internal+0xca/0x210
[ 86.895249] [<c0395543>] ? kvasprintf+0x43/0x60
[ 86.895252] [<c042ce59>] __driver_attach+0x79/0x80
[ 86.895256] [<c042c3d3>] bus_for_each_dev+0x53/0x80
[ 86.895274] [<f92ba2b0>] ? memstick_device_remove+0x0/0x50 [memstick]
[ 86.895278] [<c042c9f9>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20
[ 86.895290] [<c042cde0>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x80
[ 86.895292] [<c042bcc7>] bus_add_driver+0x197/0x280
[ 86.895297] [<f92ba2b0>] ? memstick_device_remove+0x0/0x50 [memstick]
[ 86.895308] [<c042d0f5>] driver_register+0x75/0x160
[ 86.895313] [<c0381f18>] ? register_blkdev+0xf8/0x130
[ 86.895326] [<f8234000>] ? msb_init+0x0/0x6d [ms_block]
[ 86.895332] [<f92ba422>] memstick_register_driver+0x12/0x20 [memstick]
[ 86.895337] [<f8234035>] msb_init+0x35/0x6d [ms_block]
[ 86.895351] [<c020112b>] do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x160
[ 86.895365] [<c0273943>] sys_init_module+0x93/0x1d0
[ 86.895377] [<c0202d98>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[ 86.895381] ---[ end trace 0f1b7248462dd657 ]---
[ 86.895593] ms_block: Switch to parallel failed
[ 86.908121] ms_block: Switch to parallel failed

And "switch to parallel failed" continues endlessly until you unplug.
Also, at another time, the machine got frozen with plugging.

After unplugging:

[ 91.398455] ms_block: read of pba 0, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.414437] ms_block: read of pba 1, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.430412] ms_block: read of pba 2, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.446389] ms_block: read of pba 3, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.462370] ms_block: read of pba 4, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.478242] ms_block: read of pba 5, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.494224] ms_block: read of pba 6, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.510205] ms_block: read of pba 7, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.526187] ms_block: read of pba 8, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.542163] ms_block: read of pba 9, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.558145] ms_block: read of pba 10, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.574127] ms_block: read of pba 11, page 0 failed with error -62
[ 91.574153] ms_block: media doesn't contain master page, aborting
[ 91.574176] ms_block: probe of memstick0 failed with error -5


thanks,

Takashi
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