linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: add runtime pm to open / release

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:53:52 -0700
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...i.sm>
Cc:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Can Guo <cang@...eaurora.org>, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...i.sm
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: add runtime pm to open / release

On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 07:46 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 10:32 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > > On 28.07.20 22:02, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 09:02:44AM +0200, Martin Kepplinger
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi Alan,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any API cleanup is of course welcome. I just wanted to remind
> > > > > you that the underlying problem: broken block device runtime
> > > > > pm. Your initial proposed fix "almost" did it and mounting
> > > > > works but during file access, it still just looks like a
> > > > > runtime_resume is missing somewhere.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I have tested that proposed fix several times, and on my
> > > > system it's working perfectly.  When I stop accessing a drive
> > > > it autosuspends, and when I access it again it gets resumed and
> > > > works -- as you would expect.
> > > 
> > > that's weird. when I mount, everything looks good, "sda1". But as
> > > soon as I cd to the mountpoint and do "ls" (on another SD card
> > > "ls" works but actual file reading leads to the exact same
> > > errors), I get:
> > > 
> > > [   77.474632] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result:
> > > hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 cmd_age=0s
> > > [   77.474647] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : 0x6 [current]
> > > [   77.474655] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
> > > [   77.474667] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00
> > > 00 60 40 00 00 01 00
> > 
> > This error report comes from the SCSI layer, not the block layer.
> 
> That sense code means "NOT READY TO READY CHANGE, MEDIUM MAY HAVE
> CHANGED" so it sounds like it something we should be
> ignoring.  Usually this signals a problem, like you changed the
> medium manually (ejected the CD).  But in this case you can tell us
> to expect this by setting
> 
> sdev->expecting_cc_ua
> 
> And we'll retry.  I think you need to set this on all resumed
> devices.

Actually, it's not quite that easy, we filter out this ASC/ASCQ
combination from the check because we should never ignore medium might
have changed events on running devices.  We could ignore it if we had a
flag to say the power has been yanked (perhaps an additional sdev flag
you set on resume) but we would still miss the case where you really
had powered off the drive and then changed the media ... if you can
regard this as the user's problem, then we might have a solution.

James