RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: Support kmsg dumper based on pstore/blk

[Bhaskara Budiredla]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:42 PM
>To: Bhaskara Budiredla <bbudiredla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Colin Cross
><ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>; Sunil Kovvuri
>Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Linux
>Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Christoph Hellwig
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>Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: Support kmsg dumper based on
>pstore/blk
>
>On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 12:36, Bhaskara Budiredla <bbudiredla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >> >> An extra check can be added to see if host was runtime suspended
>> >> >> ahead of panic write attempt.
>> >> >
>> >> >What if that is the case, should we just return an error?
>> >> >
>> >> Yes.
>> >>
>> >> >Moreover, even the device belonging to the mmc card can be runtime
>> >> >suspended too. So if that is the case, we should return an error too?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Yes, same here.
>> >>
>>
>> Please comment if returning error is sufficient here or can there be
>> an attempt to wake the device through either of the atomic activation calls:
>> pm_runtime_get(),  pm_request_resume()?
>
>Hmm, I would start with playing with the below. mmc_claim_host supports
>also nested claims.
>
>mmc_claim_host(host)  - this will call pm_runtime_get_sync(host)
>mmc_get_card(card, NULL) - this will call can
>pm_runtime_get_sync(card)) and also try to claim the host
>

As you suggested I am creating a parallel path that avoids wait queue 
to claim the host. The *_sync()* routines could sleep, I can't use them
as part of panic write. 


>Kind regards
>Uffe

Thanks,
Bhaskara