On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 02:02:44PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> +nicolas +michal
> 
> On 16/06/2020 14:00, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
> > I am doing some testing with the newest Tumbleweed images for the Raspberry 
> > Pi 
> > 4B. The micro-SD card I was using for the KDE version showed a rather slow 
> > system. Long waiting between commands.
> >
> > After trying to change the default language with "yast language", which 
> > pulls 
> > in quite a lot of new packages, the system was very slow. Finally dmesg 
> > showed 
> > error messages complaining:
> >
> > mmc1 timeout waiting for hardware interrupt 
> >
> > Searching for a solution I found the following patch:
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10219153/
> >
> > The main cause seems to be the behaviour of certain SD cards of which I 
> > apparently have one. I do have a similar card, same brand, same kind and 
> > same 
> > size, which does not show this behaviour.
> >
> > So my question is: Has this patch been implemented in the newest version of 
> > Tumbleweed for the RPi4?
Most likely.
> > If not, would it solve this problem?
> >
No.

In the case that matters it seems most of the system is locked up. I
suspect something essential like the DMA controller locks up rather than
the MMC controller itself. I can see now why Chinese chips employ
multiple DMA cotrollers with key components like storage having a
private DMA each.

Given the low general interest and low occurence of these broken cards I
gave up on debugging this.

I may be able to find the one card that exhibits the problem after
covid-19 situation stabilizes some more but I did not seriously try to
debug a low-level problem like this yet.

Thanks

Michal
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