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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/ata/libata.h, branch v2.6.23.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>libata: implement EH fast drain</title>
<updated>2007-07-20T12:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-16T05:29:41+00:00</published>
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In most cases, when EH is scheduled, all in-flight commands are
aborted causing EH to kick in immediately.  However, in some cases
(especially with PMP), it's unclear which commands are affected by the
error condition and although aborting all in-flight commands work, it
isn't optimal and may cause unnecessary disruption.  On the other
hand, waiting for in-flight commands to drain themselves can take up
to 30seconds.

This patch implements EH fast drain to handle such situations.  It
gives in-flight commands some time to finish up but doesn't wait for
too long.  After EH is scheduled, fast drain timer is started and if
no other completion occurs in ATA_EH_FASTDRAIN_INTERVAL all in-flight
commands are aborted.  If any completion occurred in the interval, the
port is given another interval to finish up itself.

Currently ATA_EH_FASTDRAIN_INTERVAL is 3 secs which should be enough
for finishing up most commands.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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In most cases, when EH is scheduled, all in-flight commands are
aborted causing EH to kick in immediately.  However, in some cases
(especially with PMP), it's unclear which commands are affected by the
error condition and although aborting all in-flight commands work, it
isn't optimal and may cause unnecessary disruption.  On the other
hand, waiting for in-flight commands to drain themselves can take up
to 30seconds.

This patch implements EH fast drain to handle such situations.  It
gives in-flight commands some time to finish up but doesn't wait for
too long.  After EH is scheduled, fast drain timer is started and if
no other completion occurs in ATA_EH_FASTDRAIN_INTERVAL all in-flight
commands are aborted.  If any completion occurred in the interval, the
port is given another interval to finish up itself.

Currently ATA_EH_FASTDRAIN_INTERVAL is 3 secs which should be enough
for finishing up most commands.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata: improve SCSI scan failure handling</title>
<updated>2007-07-20T12:26:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-16T05:29:40+00:00</published>
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SCSI scan may fail due to memory allocation failure even if EH is not
in progress.  Due to use of GFP_ATOMIC in SCSI scan path, allocation
failure isn't too rare especially while probing multiple devices at
once which is the case when a bunch of devices are connected to PMP.

This patch moves SCSI scan failure detetion logic from
ata_scsi_hotplug() to ata_scsi_scan_host() and implement synchronous
scan behavior.  The synchronous path sleeps briefly and repeats SCSI
scan if some devices aren't attached properly.  It contains robust
retry loop to minimize the chance of device misdetection during boot
and falls back to async retry if everything fails.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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SCSI scan may fail due to memory allocation failure even if EH is not
in progress.  Due to use of GFP_ATOMIC in SCSI scan path, allocation
failure isn't too rare especially while probing multiple devices at
once which is the case when a bunch of devices are connected to PMP.

This patch moves SCSI scan failure detetion logic from
ata_scsi_hotplug() to ata_scsi_scan_host() and implement synchronous
scan behavior.  The synchronous path sleeps briefly and repeats SCSI
scan if some devices aren't attached properly.  It contains robust
retry loop to minimize the chance of device misdetection during boot
and falls back to async retry if everything fails.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata-acpi: implement _GTM/_STM support</title>
<updated>2007-07-09T16:17:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-14T18:28:16+00:00</published>
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Implement _GTM/_STM support.  acpi_gtm is added to ata_port which
stores _GTM parameters over suspend/resume cycle.  A new hook
ata_acpi_on_suspend() is responsible for storing _GTM parameters
during suspend.  _STM is executed in ata_acpi_on_resume().  With this
change, invoking _GTF is safe on IDE hierarchy and acpi_sata check
before _GTF is removed.

ata_acpi_gtm() and ata_acpi_stm() implementation is taken from Alan
Cox's pata_acpi implementation.  ata_acpi_gtm() is fixed such that the
result parameter is not shifted by sizeof(union acpi_object).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Implement _GTM/_STM support.  acpi_gtm is added to ata_port which
stores _GTM parameters over suspend/resume cycle.  A new hook
ata_acpi_on_suspend() is responsible for storing _GTM parameters
during suspend.  _STM is executed in ata_acpi_on_resume().  With this
change, invoking _GTF is safe on IDE hierarchy and acpi_sata check
before _GTF is removed.

ata_acpi_gtm() and ata_acpi_stm() implementation is taken from Alan
Cox's pata_acpi implementation.  ata_acpi_gtm() is fixed such that the
result parameter is not shifted by sizeof(union acpi_object).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: reimplement ACPI invocation</title>
<updated>2007-07-09T16:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-14T18:28:16+00:00</published>
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This patch reimplements ACPI invocation such that, instead of
exporting ACPI details to the rest of libata, ACPI event handlers -
ata_acpi_on_resume() and ata_acpi_on_devcfg() - are used.  These two
functions are responsible for determining whether specific ACPI method
is used and when.

On resume, _GTF is scheduled by setting ATA_DFLAG_ACPI_PENDING device
flag.  This is done this way to avoid performing the action on wrong
device device (device swapping while suspended).

On every ata_dev_configure(), ata_acpi_on_devcfg() is called, which
performs _SDD and _GTF.  _GTF is performed only after resuming and, if
SATA, hardreset as the ACPI spec specifies.  As _GTF may contain
arbitrary commands, IDENTIFY page is re-read after _GTF taskfiles are
executed.

If one of ACPI methods fails, ata_acpi_on_devcfg() retries on the
first failure.  If it fails again on the second try, ACPI is disabled
on the device.  Note that successful configuration clears ACPI failed
status.

With all feature checks moved to the above two functions,
do_drive_set_taskfiles() is trivial and thus collapsed into
ata_acpi_exec_tfs(), which is now static and converted to return the
number of executed taskfiles to be used by ata_acpi_on_resume().  As
failures are handled properly, ata_acpi_push_id() now returns -errno
on errors instead of unconditional zero.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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This patch reimplements ACPI invocation such that, instead of
exporting ACPI details to the rest of libata, ACPI event handlers -
ata_acpi_on_resume() and ata_acpi_on_devcfg() - are used.  These two
functions are responsible for determining whether specific ACPI method
is used and when.

On resume, _GTF is scheduled by setting ATA_DFLAG_ACPI_PENDING device
flag.  This is done this way to avoid performing the action on wrong
device device (device swapping while suspended).

On every ata_dev_configure(), ata_acpi_on_devcfg() is called, which
performs _SDD and _GTF.  _GTF is performed only after resuming and, if
SATA, hardreset as the ACPI spec specifies.  As _GTF may contain
arbitrary commands, IDENTIFY page is re-read after _GTF taskfiles are
executed.

If one of ACPI methods fails, ata_acpi_on_devcfg() retries on the
first failure.  If it fails again on the second try, ACPI is disabled
on the device.  Note that successful configuration clears ACPI failed
status.

With all feature checks moved to the above two functions,
do_drive_set_taskfiles() is trivial and thus collapsed into
ata_acpi_exec_tfs(), which is now static and converted to return the
number of executed taskfiles to be used by ata_acpi_on_resume().  As
failures are handled properly, ata_acpi_push_id() now returns -errno
on errors instead of unconditional zero.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata-acpi: implement ata_acpi_associate()</title>
<updated>2007-07-09T16:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-14T18:28:16+00:00</published>
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* Add acpi_handle to ata_host and ata_port.  Rename
  ata_device-&gt;obj_handle to -&gt;acpi_handle and move it above such that
  it doesn't get cleared on reconfiguration.

* Replace ACPI node association which ata_acpi_associate() which is
  called once during host initialization.  Unlike the previous
  implementation, ata_acpi_associate() uses ATA_FLAG_ACPI_SATA to
  choose between IDE or SATA ACPI hierarchy and uses simple child look
  up instead of recursive walk to match the nodes.  This is way safer
  and simpler.  Please read the following message for more info.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/17554

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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* Add acpi_handle to ata_host and ata_port.  Rename
  ata_device-&gt;obj_handle to -&gt;acpi_handle and move it above such that
  it doesn't get cleared on reconfiguration.

* Replace ACPI node association which ata_acpi_associate() which is
  called once during host initialization.  Unlike the previous
  implementation, ata_acpi_associate() uses ATA_FLAG_ACPI_SATA to
  choose between IDE or SATA ACPI hierarchy and uses simple child look
  up instead of recursive walk to match the nodes.  This is way safer
  and simpler.  Please read the following message for more info.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/17554

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: remove libata.spindown_compat</title>
<updated>2007-05-18T00:57:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-17T14:43:26+00:00</published>
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With STANDBYDOWN tracking added, libata.spindown_compat isn't
necessary anymore.  If userspace shutdown(8) issues STANDBYNOW, libata
warns.  If userspace shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW, libata does
the right thing.  Userspace can tell whether kernel supports spindown
by testing whether sysfs node manage_start_stop exists as before.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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With STANDBYDOWN tracking added, libata.spindown_compat isn't
necessary anymore.  If userspace shutdown(8) issues STANDBYNOW, libata
warns.  If userspace shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW, libata does
the right thing.  Userspace can tell whether kernel supports spindown
by testing whether sysfs node manage_start_stop exists as before.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: separate out ata_dev_reread_id()</title>
<updated>2007-05-16T05:18:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-14T18:28:15+00:00</published>
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Separate out ata_dev_reread_id() from ata_dev_revalidate().
ata_dev_reread_id() reads IDENTIFY page and determines whether the
same device is still there.  ata_dev_revalidate() reconfigures after
reread completes.  This will be used by ACPI update.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Separate out ata_dev_reread_id() from ata_dev_revalidate().
ata_dev_reread_id() reads IDENTIFY page and determines whether the
same device is still there.  ata_dev_revalidate() reconfigures after
reread completes.  This will be used by ACPI update.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata-acpi: clean up parameters and misc stuff</title>
<updated>2007-05-11T22:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-05T14:50:38+00:00</published>
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This patch cleans up libata-acpi such that it looks similar to other
libata files.  This patch doesn't introuce any behavior changes.

* make libata-acpi functions take ata_device instead of ata_port +
  device index
* s/atadev/dev/
* de-indent local variable declarations

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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This patch cleans up libata-acpi such that it looks similar to other
libata files.  This patch doesn't introuce any behavior changes.

* make libata-acpi functions take ata_device instead of ata_port +
  device index
* s/atadev/dev/
* de-indent local variable declarations

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata-acpi: s/CONFIG_SATA_ACPI/CONFIG_ATA_ACPI/</title>
<updated>2007-05-11T22:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-05T14:50:38+00:00</published>
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ACPI applies to both SATA and PATA.  Drop the 'S' from the config
variable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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ACPI applies to both SATA and PATA.  Drop the 'S' from the config
variable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: implement libata.spindown_compat</title>
<updated>2007-05-11T22:01:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-04T19:28:48+00:00</published>
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Now that libata uses sd-&gt;manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on
shutdown.  In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming,
some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their
shutdown(8).  Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on
STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so
this double spinning down causes problem.

This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which,
when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down
disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down.  Note that
libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with
libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down
in all cases without modifying shutdown(8).

shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually.  Some drive do spin up on
SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean.  Those disks
currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and
then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the
head.  We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be
dangerous data integrity-wise.

So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by
the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do.

  * Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat
    exists.  If it does, write 0 to it.

  * For each libata harddisk {
	* Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop
	  exists.  Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk
	  down as before.
  }

The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels
before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without
it.

To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this
patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the
optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by
hours of tireless usability testing).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Now that libata uses sd-&gt;manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on
shutdown.  In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming,
some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their
shutdown(8).  Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on
STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so
this double spinning down causes problem.

This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which,
when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down
disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down.  Note that
libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with
libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down
in all cases without modifying shutdown(8).

shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually.  Some drive do spin up on
SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean.  Those disks
currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and
then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the
head.  We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be
dangerous data integrity-wise.

So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by
the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do.

  * Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat
    exists.  If it does, write 0 to it.

  * For each libata harddisk {
	* Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop
	  exists.  Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk
	  down as before.
  }

The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels
before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without
it.

To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this
patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the
optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by
hours of tireless usability testing).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
</pre>
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