I've had it with this code now.
The packed command support is a complex hurdle in the MMC/SD block
layer, around 500+ lines of code which was introduced in 2013 in
commit ce39f9d17c ("mmc: support packed write command for eMMC4.5
devices")
commit abd9ac1449 ("mmc: add packed command feature of eMMC4.5")
...and since then it has been rotting. The original author of the
code has disappeared from the community and the mail address is
bouncing.
For the code to be exercised the host must flag that it supports
packed commands, so in mmc_blk_prep_packed_list() which is called for
every single request, the following construction appears:
u8 max_packed_rw = 0;
if ((rq_data_dir(cur) == WRITE) &&
mmc_host_packed_wr(card->host))
max_packed_rw = card->ext_csd.max_packed_writes;
if (max_packed_rw == 0)
goto no_packed;
This has the following logical deductions:
- Only WRITE commands can really be packed, so the solution is
only half-done: we support packed WRITE but not packed READ.
The packed command support has not been finalized by supporting
reads in three years!
- mmc_host_packed_wr() is just a static inline that checks
host->caps2 & MMC_CAP2_PACKED_WR. The problem with this is
that NO upstream host sets this capability flag! No driver
in the kernel is using it, and we can't test it. Packed
command may be supported in out-of-tree code, but I doubt
it. I doubt that the code is even working anymore due to
other refactorings in the MMC block layer, who would
notice if patches affecting it broke packed commands?
No one.
- There is no Device Tree binding or code to mark a host as
supporting packed read or write commands, just this flag
in caps2, so for sure there are not any DT systems using
it either.
It has other problems as well: mmc_blk_prep_packed_list() is
speculatively picking requests out of the request queue with
blk_fetch_request() making the MMC/SD stack harder to convert
to the multiqueue block layer. By this we get rid of an
obstacle.
The way I see it this is just cruft littering the MMC/SD
stack.
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Maya Erez <qca_merez@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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