3Gbps is often much more prone to transmission failures. It's usually
okay to let EH handle speed down after transmission failures but some
WD My Book drives completely shutdown after certain transmission
failures and after it only power cycling can revive them. Combined
with the fact that external drives often end up with cable assembly
which is longer than usual and more likely to have intervening gender,
this makes these drives very likely to shutdown under certain
configurations virtually rendering them unusable.
This patch implements HOARKGE_1_5_GBPS and applies it to WD My Book
such that 1.5Gbps is forced once the device is identified.
Please take a look at the following bz for related reports.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9913
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Let -EAGAIN from EH device handling routines trigger EH retry without
consuming its tries count. This will be used to implement link SPD
horkage which requires hardreset to adjust SPD without affecting other
EH decisions. As it bypasses the forward progress guarantee provided
by the tries count, the requester is responsible for ensuring forward
progress.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
When link is flaky at high speed, it isn't uncommon for a device to
repeatedly fail probing sequence early after successfully negotiating
high link speed. This often leads to consecutive hotplug events
without successful probing.
This patch improves libata EH such that it remembers probing trials
and if there have been more than two unsuccessful trials in the past
60 seconds, slows down link speed to 1.5Gbps.
As link speed negotiation is the duty of the PHY layer proper, the
goal of this fallback mechanism is to provide the last resort when
everything else fails, which unfortunately happens not too
infrequently, so no fancy 6->3->1.5 speeding down or highest
successful transmission speed seen kind of logics (yet).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Add @spd_limit to sata_down_spd_limit() so that the caller can specify
the SPD limit it wants. This parameter doesn't get in the way even
when it's too low. The closest possible limit is applied.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
dev->ering used to be cleared together with the rest of ata_device in
ata_dev_init() which is called whenever a probing event occurs.
dev->ering is about to be used to track probing failures so it needs
to remain persistent over multiple porbing events. This patch
achieves this by doing the following.
* Instead of CLEAR_OFFSET, define CLEAR_BEGIN and CLEAR_END and only
clear between BEGIN and END. ering is moved after END. The split
of persistent area is to allow hotter items remain at the head.
* ering is explicitly cleared on ata_dev_disable() and when device
attach succeeds. So, ering is persistent throug a device's life
time (unless explicitly cleared of course) and also through periods
inbetween disablement of an attached device and successful detection
of the next one.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
sata_down_spd_limit() should check whether the link is online before
using the SPD value to determine how to limit the link speed. Factor
out onlineness test and test it from sata_down_spd_limit().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
ata_dev_disable() is about to be more tightly integrated into EH
logic. Move it to libata-eh.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The dev->pio_mode > XFER_PIO_0 test is there to avoid unnecessary
speed down warning messages but it accidentally disabled SATA link spd
down during configuration phase after reset where PIO mode is always
zero.
This patch fixes the problem by moving the test where it belongs.
This makes libata probing sequence behave better when the connection
is flaky at higher link speeds which isn't too uncommon for eSATA
devices.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
While playing with nvraid, I found out that rmmoding and insmoding
often trigger hardreset failure on the first port (the second one was
always okay). Seriously, how diverse can you get with hardreset
behaviors? Anyways, make ck804 use noclassify variant too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Fix libata kernel-doc warnings:
Warning(linux-next-20090120//drivers/ata/libata-core.c:4720): Excess function parameter 'dev' description in 'ata_qc_new'
Warning(linux-next-20090120//drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c:428): No description found for parameter 'ap'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The SSS flag, which directs the OS to spin up one disk at a time
to not have the PSU blow out, sometimes gets set even when not needed.
The effect of this is a longer-than-needed boot time.
This patch adds a module parameter that makes the driver ignore SSS
at least as far as the parallel scan during boot is concerned...
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Fix chip type for the Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 and 1742 PCI cards.
These really do have Marvell 6042 chips on them, rather than the 5081 chip.
Confirmed by multiple (two) users (for the 1740), and by examining
the product photographs from Highpoint's web site.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
I tried compiling 2.6.29-rc1 and 2.6.29-rc3 with libata debugging enabled
and got the following error:
CC [M] drivers/ata/sata_sil.o
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c: In function 'sil_fill_sg':
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c:327: error: 'pi' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c:327: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c:327: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [drivers/ata/sata_sil.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/ata] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
include/linux/libata.h has the following enabled:
#define ATA_DEBUG
#define ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG
#define ATA_IRQ_TRAP
This fixes the compilation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Commit e57db7b (SATA Sil: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off)
breaks build like the following, in both cases when CONFIG_DMI set or not.
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c: In function 'sil_broken_system_poweroff':
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c:713: error: implicit declaration of function 'dmi_first_match'
drivers/ata/sata_sil.c:713: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
sata_sil.c should include dmi.h
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'hibern_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
SATA PIIX: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA Sil: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA AHCI: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA: Blacklisting of systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off
DMI: Introduce dmi_first_match to make the interface more flexible
Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernation
Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.
To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.
Blacklist HP 2510p that uses the ata_piix driver.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.
To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.
Blacklist HP nx6325 that uses the sata_sil driver.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.
To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.
Blacklist HP nx6310 that uses the AHCI driver.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Introduce new libata flags ATA_FLAG_NO_POWEROFF_SPINDOWN and
ATA_FLAG_NO_HIBERNATE_SPINDOWN that, if set, will prevent disks from
being spun off during system power off and hibernation, respectively
(to handle the hibernation case we need the new system state
SYSTEM_HIBERNATE_ENTER that can be checked against by libata, in
analogy with SYSTEM_POWER_OFF).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The driver has been tested without the call to set_irq_type at this
point and occurs to work fine, so it should be safe to remove it.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <n0-1@freewrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
It supports VX855 and future chips whose IDE controller uses PCI ID 0x0571.
Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan@via.com.tw>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Update Kconfig for sata_mv with full list of chips supported,
and (finally!) remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" designations.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Enable reliable use of Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) in sata_mv
by masking further chip interrupts within the main interrupt handler.
Based upon a suggestion by Grant Grundler.
MSI is working reliably in all of my test systems here now.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
I noticed that during initialization sata_mv.c assumes that the main
interrupt mask has its default value of 0. The function
mv_platform_probe(..) initializes a shadow irq mask with 0 assuming
that's the value of the controller's register. Now
mv_set_main_irq_mask(..) only writes the controller's register if the
new value differs from the "shadowed" value. This is fatal when trying
to disable all interrupts in mv_init_host(..), i.e. the following
function call does not write anything to the main irq mask register:
mv_set_main_irq_mask(host, ~0, 0);
The effect I see on my machine (QNAP TS-109 II) with booting via kexec
(with Linux as a 2nd-stage boot loader) is that if the sata_mv module
was still loaded when performing kexec, then the new kernel's sata_mv
module starts up with interrupts enabled. This results in an unhandled
IRQ and breaks the boot process.
The unhandled interrupt itself might also be fixed by Lennert's patch
proposed at http://markmail.org/message/kwvzxstnlsa3s26w which I did not
try yet.
However I still propose to additionally initialize the shadow variable
with the current contents of the main irq mask register to get both in
sync and allow proper disabling the main irq mask. This fixes the
unhandled irq on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Reitmayr <treitmayr@devbase.at>
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Samuel Thibault
Tejun Heo
Randy Dunlap
Arjan van de Ven
Mark Lord
Pasi Kärkkäinen
Alexander Beregalov
Linus Torvalds
Rafael J. Wysocki
Phil Sutter
JosephChan@via.com.tw
Thomas Reitmayr