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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (104 commits)
[SCSI] fcoe: fix configuration problems
[SCSI] cxgb3i: fix select/depend problem
[SCSI] fcoe: fix incorrect use of struct module
[SCSI] cxgb3i: remove use of skb->sp
[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver.
[SCSI] zfcp: Remove unnecessary warning message
[SCSI] zfcp: Add support for unchained FSF requests
[SCSI] zfcp: Remove busid macro
[SCSI] zfcp: remove DID_DID flag
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify mask lookups for incoming RSCNs
[SCSI] zfcp: Remove initial device data from zfcp_data
[SCSI] zfcp: fix compile warning
[SCSI] zfcp: Remove adapter list
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify SBAL allocation to fix sparse warnings
[SCSI] zfcp: register with SCSI layer on ccw registration
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix message line break
[SCSI] qla2xxx: changes in multiq code
[SCSI] eata: fix the data buffer accessors conversion regression
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Improve async event handling
[SCSI] lpfc : correct printk types on PPC compiles
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scsi_execute() and scsi_execute_req() discard the residual length
information. Some callers need it. This adds residual argument
(optional) to scsi_execute and scsi_execute_req.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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This implements support for the Large Block Transfer feature found in Silicon
Image 311x controllers. This allows transferring bigger contiguous chunks of
data from system memory and avoids the 64KB boundary restriction of standard
SFF controllers.
This is based on a patch from Jeff Garzik (from the sii-lbt branch of
libata-dev) but includes a few bug fixes: Since the bmdma2 register does not
implement the status bits, the original bmdma register must be used except
where the bmdma2 register is required. As well the DMA boundary should be
31-bit instead of 32-bit since the top bit of the length field is still
required for the PRD end-of-table flag.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Commit
ATA: piix, fix pointer deref on suspend
fixed a possible oops in an ugly manner. Use newly introduced dmi_match()
to make the code pretty again.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandru Romanescu <a_romanescu@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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The patchlet below blacklists NCQ on OCZ CORE v2 SSD drive(s). Even
though the drive advertises NCQ support with queue depth 1, it responds
with all-zeroes FIS to NCQ commands which triggers ata error handling
several times before the kernel decides to disable NCQ on the drive.
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Bulej <lubomir.bulej@dsrg.mff.cuni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
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ata_port_detach() first made sure EH saw ATA_PFLAG_UNLOADING and then
assumed EH context belongs to it and performed detach operation
itself. However, UNLOADING doesn't disable all of EH and this could
lead to problems including triggering WARN_ON()'s in EH path.
This patch makes port detach behave more like other EH actions such
that ata_port_detach() requests EH to detach and waits for completion.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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When restoring SControl during detach, PMP links should be handled
first as changing SControl of the host link can affect SCR access of
PMP links.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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There currently are the following looping constructs.
* __ata_port_for_each_link() for all available links
* ata_port_for_each_link() for edge links
* ata_link_for_each_dev() for all devices
* ata_link_for_each_dev_reverse() for all devices in reverse order
Now there's a need for looping construct which is similar to
__ata_port_for_each_link() but iterates over PMP links before the host
link. Instead of adding another one with long name, do the following
cleanup.
* Implement and export ata_link_next() and ata_dev_next() which take
@mode parameter and can be used to build custom loop.
* Implement ata_for_each_link() and ata_for_each_dev() which take
looping mode explicitly.
The following iteration modes are implemented.
* ATA_LITER_EDGE : loop over edge links
* ATA_LITER_HOST_FIRST : loop over all links, host link first
* ATA_LITER_PMP_FIRST : loop over all links, PMP links first
* ATA_DITER_ENABLED : loop over enabled devices
* ATA_DITER_ENABLED_REVERSE : loop over enabled devices in reverse order
* ATA_DITER_ALL : loop over all devices
* ATA_DITER_ALL_REVERSE : loop over all devices in reverse order
This change removes exlicit device enabledness checks from many loops
and makes it clear which ones are iterated over in which direction.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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This patch adds MDMA/UDMA support using BestComm for DMA on the MPC5200
platform. Based heavily on previous work by Freescale (Bernard Kuhn,
John Rigby) and Domen Puncer.
With this patch, a SanDisk Extreme IV CF card gets read speeds of
approximately 26.70 MB/sec.
Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin <plasm@roo.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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IDE hpt366 driver doesn't allow DMA for ATAPI devices and MWDMA2 on
ATAPI device locks up pata_hpt366. Follow the suit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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pata_hpt366 is strange in that its two channels occupy two PCI
functions and both are primary channels and bit1 of PCI configuration
register 0x5A indicates cable for both channels.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Due to miscommunication, P/N was mistaken as firmware revision
strings. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Various tags are now way out of date
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Some systems report SIS 5513 as both vendor/id and subvendor/id
string. In that case we can't distinguish the system by the id
svid/sdid and in fact the entry here breaks some boxes. At some
point we need to find another way to detect the Targa Visionary 1000,
until then this trades a hang for some users with lower performance
for others.
Closes: #12092
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Hi,
I've found this issue in the mmotm 2008-12-02-17-08.
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Commit
ata_piix: add borked Tecra M4 to broken suspend list
introduced DMI variables checking, but they can be null, so that
we possibly dereference null.
Check if they are null and avoid checks in that case.
Solves:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff8043da97>] piix_pci_device_suspend+0x117/0x230
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexandru Romanescu <a_romanescu@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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pata_hpt366 had its clock detection wrong and detected 25Mhz as 40Mhz
and vice-versa. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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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 <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Per definition, this function should return the number of bytes
consumed. As the original parameter "buflen" is being decremented inside
the read/write loop, save it in "retlen" at the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <n0-1@freewrt.org>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtyltov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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The original standalone driver uses a custom address for the error
register. Use it in pata_rb532_cf, too.
Rename two register definitions:
- The address offset 0x0800 in fact is the ATA base, not ATA command
address.
- The offset 0x0C00 is not a regular ATA data address, but a buffered one
allowing 4-byte IO.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <n0-1@freewrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Tecra M4 sometimes forget what it is and reports bogus data via DMI
which makes the machine evade broken suspend matching and thus fail
suspend/resume. This patch updates piix_broken_suspend() such that it
can match such case. As the borked DMI data is a bit generic,
matching many entries to make the match more specific is necessary.
As the usual DMI matching is limited to four entries, this patch uses
hard coded manual matching.
This is reported by Alexandru Romanescu.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandru Romanescu <a_romanescu@yahoo.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Currently libata uses four methods to detect device presence.
1. PHY status if available.
2. TF register R/W test (only promotes presence, never demotes)
3. device signature after reset
4. IDENTIFY failure detection in SFF state machine
Combination of the above works well in most cases but recently there
have been a few reports where a phantom device causes unnecessary
delay during probe. In both cases, PHY status wasn't available. In
one case, it passed #2 and #3 and failed IDENTIFY with ATA_ERR which
didn't qualify as #4. The other failed #2 but as it passed #3 and #4,
it still caused failure.
In both cases, phantom device reported diagnostic failure, so these
cases can be safely worked around by considering any !ATA_DRQ IDENTIFY
failure as NODEV_HINT if diagnostic failure is set.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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ehc->last_reset is used to ensure that resets are not issued too
close to each other. It's initialized to jiffies minus one minute
on EH entry. However, when new links are initialized after PMP is
probed, new links have zero for this timestamp resulting in long wait
depending on the current jiffies.
This patch makes last_set considered iff ATA_EHI_DID_RESET is set, in
which case last_reset is always initialized. As an added precaution,
WARN_ON() is added so that warning is printed if last_reset is
in future.
This problem is spotted and debugged by Shane Huang.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shane Huang <Shane.Huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Phillip O'Donnell <phillip.odonnell@gmail.com> pointed out that the same
sign extension bug that was fixed in commit ba14a9c2 ("libata: Avoid
overflow in ata_tf_to_lba48() when tf->hba_lbal > 127") also appears to
exist in ata_tf_read_block(). Fix this by adding a cast to u64.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Support for Apacer photo steno pro card.
Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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I posted this last month, but was prompted to do so again in bz#467457
Add capability flag to support slave devices with pata_sch driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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No arguments named @deadline in cs5535_cable_detect() and
cs5536_cable_detect(). Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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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 <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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libata restores SControl on detach; however, trying to restore
non-zero DET can cause undeterministic behavior including PMP device
going offline till power cycling. Mask off DET when restoring
SControl.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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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 <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: John Clark <clarkjc@runbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Peter Moulder has pointed out that there is a slight chance that a
negative value might be passed to jiffies_to_msecs() in
ata_scsi_park_show(). This is fixed by saving the value of jiffies in a
local variable, thus also reducing code since the volatile variable
jiffies is accessed only once.
Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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All three flavors of sata_nv's are different in how their hardreset
behaves.
* generic: Hardreset is not reliable. Link often doesn't come online
after hardreset.
* nf2/3: A little bit better - link comes online with longer debounce
timing. However, nf2/3 can't reliable wait for the first D2H
Register FIS, so it can't wait for device readiness or classify the
device after hardreset. Follow-up SRST required.
* ck804: Hardreset finally works.
The core layer change to prefer hardreset and follow up changes
exposed the above issues and caused various detection regressions for
all three flavors. This patch, hopefully, fixes all the known issues
and should make sata_nv error handling more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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commit b9d5b89b487517cbd4cb4702da829e07ef9e4432 (sata_via: fix support
for 5287) accidently (?) removed vt*_prepare_host error handling - restore it
catched by gcc:
drivers/ata/sata_via.c: In function 'svia_init_one':
drivers/ata/sata_via.c:567: warning: 'host' may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Promise ATA engines need to be reset when errors occur.
That's currently done for errors detected by sata_promise itself,
but it's not done for errors like timeouts detected outside of
the low-level driver.
The effect of this omission is that a timeout tends to result
in a sequence of failed COMRESETs after which libata EH gives
up and disables the port. At that point the port's ATA engine
hangs and even reloading the driver will not resume it.
To fix this, make sata_promise override ->hardreset on SATA
ports with code which calls pdc_reset_port() on the port in
question before calling libata's hardreset. PATA ports don't
use ->hardreset, so for those we override ->softreset instead.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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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 <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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5287 used to be treated as vt6420 but it didn't work. It's new family
of controllers called vt8251 which hosts four SATA ports as M/S of the
two ATA ports. This configuration is rather peculiar in that although
the M/S devices are on the same port, each have its own SCR (or
equivalent link status/control) registers which screws up the
port-link-device hierarchy assumed by libata. Another controller
which falls into this category is ata_piix w/ SIDPR access.
libata now has facility to deal with this class of controllers named
slave_link. A low level driver for such controllers can just call
ata_slave_link_init() on the respective ports and libata will handle
all the difficult parts like following up with single SRST after
hardresetting both ports.
This patch creates new controller class vt8251, implements slave_link
aware init sequence and config space based SCR access for it and moves
5287 to the new class.
This patch is based on Joseph Chan's larger patch which was created
before slave_link was implemented in libata.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.mm/40640
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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In ata_tf_to_lba48(), when evaluating
(tf->hob_lbal & 0xff) << 24
the expression is promoted to signed int (since int can hold all values
of u8). However, if hob_lbal is 128 or more, then it is treated as a
negative signed value and sign-extended when promoted to u64 to | into
sectors, which leads to the MSB 32 bits of section getting set
incorrectly.
For example, Phillip O'Donnell <phillip.odonnell@gmail.com> reported
that a 1.5GB drive caused:
ata3.00: HPA detected: current 2930277168, native 18446744072344861488
where 2930277168 == 0xAEA87B30 and 18446744072344861488 == 0xffffffffaea87b30
which shows the problem when hob_lbal is 0xae.
Fix this by adding a cast to u64, just as is used by for hob_lbah and
hob_lbam in the function.
Reported-by: Phillip O'Donnell <phillip.odonnell@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Remove excess kernel-doc function parameter notation from drivers/ata/:
Warning(drivers/ata/libata-core.c:1622): Excess function parameter or struct member 'fn' description in 'ata_pio_queue_task'
Warning(drivers/ata/libata-core.c:4655): Excess function parameter or struct member 'err_mask' description in 'ata_qc_complete'
Warning(drivers/ata/ata_piix.c:751): Excess function parameter or struct member 'udma' description in 'do_pata_set_dmamode'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata: ahci enclosure management bit mask
libata: ahci enclosure management led sync
pata_ninja32: suspend/resume support
libata: Fix LBA48 on pata_it821x RAID volumes.
libata: clear saved xfer_mode and ncq_enabled on device detach
sata_sil24: configure max read request size to 4k
libata: add missing kernel-doc
libata: fix device iteration bugs
ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819
ata: Switch all my stuff to a common address
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Enclosure management bit mask definitions.
Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Synchronize ahci_sw_activity and ahci_sw_activity_blink with ata_port lock.
Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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I had assumed that the standard recovery would be sufficient for this
hardware but it isn't. Fix up the other registers on resume as needed. See
bug #11735
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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[http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/18/82]
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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libata EH saves xfer_mode and ncq_enabled at start to later set
DUBIOUS_XFER flag if it has changed. These values need to be cleared
on device detach such that hot device swap doesn't accidentally miss
DUBIOUS_XFER.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Due to request posting limitations, bandwidth of sil3132 is limited to
around 120MB/s with the minimum pci-e payload size (128bytes) which is
used by most consumer systems. However, write throughput can be
slightly (~3%) increased by increasing the max read requeset size.
Configure it to 4k which is the maximum supported. This optimization
is also done by SIMG's windows driver.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Fix libata missing kernel-doc:
Warning(lin2628-rc2//drivers/ata/libata-core.c:4562): No description
found for parameter 'tag'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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There were several places where only enabled devices should be
iterated over but device enabledness wasn't checked.
* IDENTIFY data 40 wire check in cable_is_40wire()
* xfer_mode/ncq_enabled saving in ata_scsi_error()
* DUBIOUS_XFER handling in ata_set_mode()
While at it, reformat comments in cable_is_40wire().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Add an appropriate entry for the Promise PDC42819 controller. It has an
AHCI mode and so far works correctly with board_ahci.
This chip is found on Promise's FastTrak TX2650 (2 port) and TX4650 (4 port)
software-based RAID cards (for which there is a binary driver, t3sas) and
can be found on some motherboards, for example the MSI K9A2 Platinum,
which calls the chip a Promise T3 controller.
Although this controller also supports SAS devices, its default bootup mode
is AHCI and the binary driver has to do some magic to get the chip into the
appropriate mode to drive SAS disks.
Seeing as no documentation is provided by Promise, adding this entry to the
ahci driver allows the controller to be useful to people as a SATA
controller (with no ill effects on the system if a SAS disk is connected -
probing of the port just times out with "link online but device
misclassified"), without having to resort to using the binary driver. Users
who require SAS or the proprietary software raid can get this functionality
using the binary driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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