kernel/linux.git/include/linux/libata.h, branch linux-2.6.28.y

libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ

2008-12-01T18:49:27+00:00

Some recent Seagate harddrives have firmware bug which causes FLUSH CACHE to timeout under certain circumstances if NCQ is being used. This can be worked around by disabling NCQ and fixed by updating the firmware. Implement ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_UPDATE and blacklist these devices. The wiki page has been updated to contain information on this issue. http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: revert convert-to-block-tagging patches

2008-11-10T16:04:47+00:00

This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to use block layer tagging. 43a49cbdf31e812c0d8f553d433b09b421f5d52c e013e13bf605b9e6b702adffbe2853cfc60e7806 2fca5ccf97d2c28bcfce44f5b07d85e74e3cd18e Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with the current conversion. The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for non-NCQ commands. Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made. I'm not sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the frailty of ATA controllers. So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc allocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axobe Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

libata: implement ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_MOD16_DMA and apply it

2008-11-04T06:08:27+00:00

libata always uses PIO for ATAPI commands when the number of bytes to transfer isn't multiple of 16 but quantum DAT72 chokes on odd bytes PIO transfers. Implement a horkage to skip the mod16 check and apply it to the quantum device. This is reported by John Clark in the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/34748 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: John Clark Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: add whitelist for devices with known good pata-sata bridges

2008-10-31T05:45:06+00:00

libata currently imposes a UDMA5 max transfer rate and 200 sector max transfer size for SATA devices that sit behind a pata-sata bridge. Lots of devices have known good bridges that don't need this limit applied. The MTRON SSD disks are such devices. Transfer rates are increased by 20-30% with the restriction removed. So add a "blacklist" entry for the MTRON devices, with a flag indicating that the bridge is known good. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: switch to using block layer tagging support

2008-10-23T23:05:26+00:00

libata currently has a pretty dumb ATA_MAX_QUEUE loop for finding a free tag to use. Instead of fixing that up, convert libata to using block layer tagging - gets rid of code in libata, and is also much faster. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

libata: transfer EHI control flags to slave ehc.i

2008-10-23T00:40:19+00:00

ATA_EHI_NO_AUTOPSY and ATA_EHI_QUIET are used to control the behavior of EH. As only the master link is visible outside EH, these flags are set only for the master link although they should also apply to the slave link, which causes spurious EH messages during probe and suspend/resume. This patch transfers those two flags to slave ehc.i before performing slave autopsy and reporting. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: reorder ata_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bits

2008-09-29T04:28:36+00:00

reduce size by 8 bytes from 1160 to 1152 allowing it to fit in 1 fewer cachelines. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: Implement disk shock protection support

2008-09-29T04:27:54+00:00

On user request (through sysfs), the IDLE IMMEDIATE command with UNLOAD FEATURE as specified in ATA-7 is issued to the device and processing of the request queue is stopped thereafter until the specified timeout expires or user space asks to resume normal operation. This is supposed to prevent the heads of a hard drive from accidentally crashing onto the platter when a heavy shock is anticipated (like a falling laptop expected to hit the floor). In fact, the whole port stops processing commands until the timeout has expired in order to avoid any resets due to failed commands on another device. Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: implement slave_link

2008-09-29T04:25:28+00:00

Explanation taken from the comment of ata_slave_link_init(). In libata, a port contains links and a link contains devices. There is single host link but if a PMP is attached to it, there can be multiple fan-out links. On SATA, there's usually a single device connected to a link but PATA and SATA controllers emulating TF based interface can have two - master and slave. However, there are a few controllers which don't fit into this abstraction too well - SATA controllers which emulate TF interface with both master and slave devices but also have separate SCR register sets for each device. These controllers need separate links for physical link handling (e.g. onlineness, link speed) but should be treated like a traditional M/S controller for everything else (e.g. command issue, softreset). slave_link is libata's way of handling this class of controllers without impacting core layer too much. For anything other than physical link handling, the default host link is used for both master and slave. For physical link handling, separate @ap->slave_link is used. All dirty details are implemented inside libata core layer. From LLD's POV, the only difference is that prereset, hardreset and postreset are called once more for the slave link, so the reset sequence looks like the following. prereset(M) -> prereset(S) -> hardreset(M) -> hardreset(S) -> softreset(M) -> postreset(M) -> postreset(S) Note that softreset is called only for the master. Softreset resets both M/S by definition, so SRST on master should handle both (the standard method will work just fine). As slave_link excludes PMP support and only code paths which deal with the attributes of physical link are affected, all the changes are localized to libata.h, libata-core.c and libata-eh.c. * ata_is_host_link() updated so that slave_link is considered as host link too. * iterator extended to iterate over the slave_link when using the underbarred version. * force param handling updated such that devno 16 is mapped to the slave link/device. * ata_link_on/offline() updated to return the combined result from master and slave link. ata_phys_link_on/offline() are the direct versions. * EH autopsy and report are performed separately for master slave links. Reset is udpated to implement the above described reset sequence. Except for reset update, most changes are minor, many of them just modifying dev->link to ata_dev_phys_link(dev) or using phys online test instead. After this update, LLDs can take full advantage of per-dev SCR registers by simply turning on slave link. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

libata: misc updates to prepare for slave link

2008-09-29T04:22:32+00:00

* Add ATA_EH_ALL_ACTIONS. * Make sata_link_{on|off}_line() return bool instead of int. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik