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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/ata/libata-pmp.c, branch v3.0.58</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>libata-pmp: add support for Thermaltake BlackX Duet esata drive dock</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T00:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Herrmann</name>
<email>morpheus.ibis@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-28T20:32:54+00:00</published>
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Some errors still show up, but the dock works, both drives can be
accessed at the same time

The chip maker and designation is unknown - possibly jmicron JMB350?

Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann &lt;morpheus.ibis@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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Some errors still show up, but the dock works, both drives can be
accessed at the same time

The chip maker and designation is unknown - possibly jmicron JMB350?

Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann &lt;morpheus.ibis@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: implement LPM support for port multipliers</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T00:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-01T15:50:07+00:00</published>
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Port multipliers can do DIPM on fan-out links fine.  Implement support
for it.  Tested w/ SIMG 57xx and marvell PMPs.  Both the host and
fan-out links enter power save modes nicely.

SIMG 37xx and 47xx report link offline on SStatus causing EH to detach
the devices.  Blacklisted.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Port multipliers can do DIPM on fan-out links fine.  Implement support
for it.  Tested w/ SIMG 57xx and marvell PMPs.  Both the host and
fan-out links enter power save modes nicely.

SIMG 37xx and 47xx report link offline on SStatus causing EH to detach
the devices.  Blacklisted.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[libata] Add ATA transport class</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T00:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gwendal Grignou</name>
<email>gwendal@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-25T19:31:38+00:00</published>
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This is a scheleton for libata transport class.
All information is read only, exporting information from libata:
- ata_port class: one per ATA port
- ata_link class: one per ATA port or 15 for SATA Port Multiplier
- ata_device class: up to 2 for PATA link, usually one for SATA.

Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou &lt;gwendal@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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This is a scheleton for libata transport class.
All information is read only, exporting information from libata:
- ata_port class: one per ATA port
- ata_link class: one per ATA port or 15 for SATA Port Multiplier
- ata_device class: up to 2 for PATA link, usually one for SATA.

Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou &lt;gwendal@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[libata] Disable R_OK (Early ACK) on SII 3726 PMP</title>
<updated>2010-05-14T21:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Grundler</name>
<email>grundler@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-15T01:43:32+00:00</published>
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In 2009, While running "cache read" performance test of drives behind
SII PMP we encountered a "all 5 drives" timeout on more than 30% of the
machines under test.  This patch reduces the rate by a factor of about 70.
Low enough that we didn't care to further investigate the issue.

Performance impact with any sort of "normal" use was ~2%+ CPU and less
than 1% throughput degradation.  Worst case impact (cached read) was
6% IOPS reduction. This is with NCQ off (q=1) but I believe FIS based
switching enabled in the SATA driver.

The patch disables "Early ACK" in the 3726 port multiplier.
"Early ACK" is issued when device sends a FIS to the host (via PMP)
and the PMP sends an ACK immediately back to the device - well before
the host gets the response. Under worst case IOPs load (cached read
test) and more than 2 PMPs connected to a 4-port SATA controller,
I suspect the time to service all of the PMPs is exceeding the PMPs
ability to keep track of outstanding FIS it owes the Host. Reducing
the number of PMPs to 2 (or 1) reduces the frequency by several orders
of magnitude. Kudos to Gwendal for initial debugging of this issue.
[Any errors in the description are mine, not his.]

Patch is currently in production on Google servers.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou &lt;gwendal@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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In 2009, While running "cache read" performance test of drives behind
SII PMP we encountered a "all 5 drives" timeout on more than 30% of the
machines under test.  This patch reduces the rate by a factor of about 70.
Low enough that we didn't care to further investigate the issue.

Performance impact with any sort of "normal" use was ~2%+ CPU and less
than 1% throughput degradation.  Worst case impact (cached read) was
6% IOPS reduction. This is with NCQ off (q=1) but I believe FIS based
switching enabled in the SATA driver.

The patch disables "Early ACK" in the 3726 port multiplier.
"Early ACK" is issued when device sends a FIS to the host (via PMP)
and the PMP sends an ACK immediately back to the device - well before
the host gets the response. Under worst case IOPs load (cached read
test) and more than 2 PMPs connected to a 4-port SATA controller,
I suspect the time to service all of the PMPs is exceeding the PMPs
ability to keep track of outstanding FIS it owes the Host. Reducing
the number of PMPs to 2 (or 1) reduces the frequency by several orders
of magnitude. Kudos to Gwendal for initial debugging of this issue.
[Any errors in the description are mine, not his.]

Patch is currently in production on Google servers.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou &lt;gwendal@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: add SATA PMP revision information for spec 1.2</title>
<updated>2009-09-09T01:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shane Huang</name>
<email>shane.huang@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-08T09:37:01+00:00</published>
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This small patch is just adding the information for PMP spec 1.2

Signed-off-by: Shane Huang &lt;shane.huang@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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This small patch is just adding the information for PMP spec 1.2

Signed-off-by: Shane Huang &lt;shane.huang@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: add @spd_limit to sata_down_spd_limit()</title>
<updated>2009-02-03T04:03:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-29T11:31:33+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: beef up iterators</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T03:43:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-03T11:03:17+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: improve EH retry delay handling</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T19:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-19T17:17:52+00:00</published>
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EH retries were delayed by 5 seconds to ensure that resets don't occur
back-to-back.  However, this 5 second delay is superflous or excessive
in many cases.  For example, after IDENTIFY times out, there's no
reason to wait five more seconds before retrying.

This patch adds ehc-&gt;last_reset timestamp and record the timestamp for
the last reset trial or success and uses it to space resets by
ATA_EH_RESET_COOL_DOWN which is 5 secs and removes unconditional 5 sec
sleeps.

As this change makes inter-try waits often shorter and they're
redundant in nature, this patch also removes the "retrying..."
messages.

While at it, convert explicit rounding up division to DIV_ROUND_UP().

This change speeds up EH in many cases w/o sacrificing robustness.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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EH retries were delayed by 5 seconds to ensure that resets don't occur
back-to-back.  However, this 5 second delay is superflous or excessive
in many cases.  For example, after IDENTIFY times out, there's no
reason to wait five more seconds before retrying.

This patch adds ehc-&gt;last_reset timestamp and record the timestamp for
the last reset trial or success and uses it to space resets by
ATA_EH_RESET_COOL_DOWN which is 5 secs and removes unconditional 5 sec
sleeps.

As this change makes inter-try waits often shorter and they're
redundant in nature, this patch also removes the "retrying..."
messages.

While at it, convert explicit rounding up division to DIV_ROUND_UP().

This change speeds up EH in many cases w/o sacrificing robustness.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>libata: consistently use msecs for time durations</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T19:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-19T17:17:51+00:00</published>
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libata has been using mix of jiffies and msecs for time druations.
This is getting confusing.  As writing sub HZ values in jiffies is
PITA and msecs_to_jiffies() can't be used as initializer, unify unit
for all time durations to msecs.  So, durations are in msecs and
deadlines are in jiffies.  ata_deadline() is added to compute deadline
from a start time and duration in msecs.

While at it, drop now superflous _msec suffix from arguments and
rename @timeout to @deadline if it represents a fixed point in time
rather than duration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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libata has been using mix of jiffies and msecs for time druations.
This is getting confusing.  As writing sub HZ values in jiffies is
PITA and msecs_to_jiffies() can't be used as initializer, unify unit
for all time durations to msecs.  So, durations are in msecs and
deadlines are in jiffies.  ata_deadline() is added to compute deadline
from a start time and duration in msecs.

While at it, drop now superflous _msec suffix from arguments and
rename @timeout to @deadline if it represents a fixed point in time
rather than duration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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