mmc: add erase, secure erase, trim and secure trim operations

SD/MMC cards tend to support an erase operation.  In addition, eMMC v4.4
cards can support secure erase, trim and secure trim operations that are
all variants of the basic erase command.

SD/MMC device attributes "erase_size" and "preferred_erase_size" have been
added.

"erase_size" is the minimum size, in bytes, of an erase operation.  For
MMC, "erase_size" is the erase group size reported by the card.  Note that
"erase_size" does not apply to trim or secure trim operations where the
minimum size is always one 512 byte sector.  For SD, "erase_size" is 512
if the card is block-addressed, 0 otherwise.

SD/MMC cards can erase an arbitrarily large area up to and
including the whole card.  When erasing a large area it may
be desirable to do it in smaller chunks for three reasons:

    1. A single erase command will make all other I/O on the card
       wait.  This is not a problem if the whole card is being erased, but
       erasing one partition will make I/O for another partition on the
       same card wait for the duration of the erase - which could be a
       several minutes.

    2. To be able to inform the user of erase progress.

    3. The erase timeout becomes too large to be very useful.
       Because the erase timeout contains a margin which is multiplied by
       the size of the erase area, the value can end up being several
       minutes for large areas.

"erase_size" is not the most efficient unit to erase (especially for SD
where it is just one sector), hence "preferred_erase_size" provides a good
chunk size for erasing large areas.

For MMC, "preferred_erase_size" is the high-capacity erase size if a card
specifies one, otherwise it is based on the capacity of the card.

For SD, "preferred_erase_size" is the allocation unit size specified by
the card.

"preferred_erase_size" is in bytes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

3 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 9e642c5bf526..8dfc6708a257 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ memory.txt
         - info on typical Linux memory problems.
 mips/
         - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture.
+mmc/
+        - directory with info about the MMC subsystem
 mono.txt
         - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC.
 mutex-design.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/mmc/00-INDEX b/Documentation/mmc/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fca586f5b853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/mmc/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+00-INDEX
+        - this file
+mmc-dev-attrs.txt
+        - info on SD and MMC device attributes
diff --git a/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff2bd685bced
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+SD and MMC Device Attributes
+============================
+
+All attributes are read-only.
+
+        cid                     Card Identifaction Register
+        csd                     Card Specific Data Register
+        scr                     SD Card Configuration Register (SD only)
+        date                    Manufacturing Date (from CID Register)
+        fwrev                   Firmware/Product Revision (from CID Register) (SD and MMCv1 only)
+        hwrev                   Hardware/Product Revision (from CID Register) (SD and MMCv1 only)
+        manfid                  Manufacturer ID (from CID Register)
+        name                    Product Name (from CID Register)
+        oemid                   OEM/Application ID (from CID Register)
+        serial                  Product Serial Number (from CID Register)
+        erase_size              Erase group size
+        preferred_erase_size    Preferred erase size
+
+Note on Erase Size and Preferred Erase Size:
+
+        "erase_size" is the  minimum size, in bytes, of an erase
+        operation.  For MMC, "erase_size" is the erase group size
+        reported by the card.  Note that "erase_size" does not apply
+        to trim or secure trim operations where the minimum size is
+        always one 512 byte sector.  For SD, "erase_size" is 512
+        if the card is block-addressed, 0 otherwise.
+
+        SD/MMC cards can erase an arbitrarily large area up to and
+        including the whole card.  When erasing a large area it may
+        be desirable to do it in smaller chunks for three reasons:
+                1. A single erase command will make all other I/O on
+                the card wait.  This is not a problem if the whole card
+                is being erased, but erasing one partition will make
+                I/O for another partition on the same card wait for the
+                duration of the erase - which could be a several
+                minutes.
+                2. To be able to inform the user of erase progress.
+                3. The erase timeout becomes too large to be very
+                useful.  Because the erase timeout contains a margin
+                which is multiplied by the size of the erase area,
+                the value can end up being several minutes for large
+                areas.
+
+        "erase_size" is not the most efficient unit to erase
+        (especially for SD where it is just one sector),
+        hence "preferred_erase_size" provides a good chunk
+        size for erasing large areas.
+
+        For MMC, "preferred_erase_size" is the high-capacity
+        erase size if a card specifies one, otherwise it is
+        based on the capacity of the card.
+
+        For SD, "preferred_erase_size" is the allocation unit
+        size specified by the card.
+
+        "preferred_erase_size" is in bytes.