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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ide/libata: fix ata_id_is_cfa() (take 4)</title>
<updated>2009-02-17T17:46:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergei Shtylyov</name>
<email>sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-01T16:46:39+00:00</published>
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commit 2999b58b795ad81f10e34bdbbfd2742172f247e4 upstream.

When checking for the CFA feature set support, ata_id_is_cfa() tests bit 2 in
word 82 of the identify data instead the word 83;  it also checks the ATA/PI
version support in the word 80 (which the CompactFlash specifications have as
reserved), this having no slightest chance to work on the modern CF cards that
don't have 0x848A in the word 0...

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 2999b58b795ad81f10e34bdbbfd2742172f247e4 upstream.

When checking for the CFA feature set support, ata_id_is_cfa() tests bit 2 in
word 82 of the identify data instead the word 83;  it also checks the ATA/PI
version support in the word 80 (which the CompactFlash specifications have as
reserved), this having no slightest chance to work on the modern CF cards that
don't have 0x848A in the word 0...

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>[libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h</title>
<updated>2008-09-13T20:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Taisuke Yamada</name>
<email>tai@rakugaki.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-13T20:46:15+00:00</published>
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I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and
had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border.
Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives):

  # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 &gt; /dev/null
  dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error
  0+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
  # dmesg
  ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
  ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
  ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in
  res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error)
  ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
  ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
  ata1: EH complete
  ...

After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused
by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access.
Following part is the code in question:

  === include/linux/ata.h ===
  static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block)
  {
    /* check the ending block number */
    return ((block + n_block - 1) &lt; ((u64)1 &lt;&lt; 28)) &amp;&amp; (n_block &lt;= 256);
  }

HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff,
n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives,
including other HGST drives are not that strict, through.

&gt;From the ATA specification:
(http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf)

  8.15.29  Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors
  This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number
  of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall
  be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh.

So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request
as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum
value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe.

The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do
that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and
the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe
this fix works reliably.

Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck
by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver.

  "28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length"
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/b531b8bce8745fb78825740f00580e23

Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004,
through I have not checked out exact portion of the code.

Signed-off-by: Taisuke Yamada &lt;tai@rakugaki.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and
had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border.
Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives):

  # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 &gt; /dev/null
  dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error
  0+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
  # dmesg
  ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
  ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
  ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in
  res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error)
  ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
  ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
  ata1: EH complete
  ...

After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused
by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access.
Following part is the code in question:

  === include/linux/ata.h ===
  static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block)
  {
    /* check the ending block number */
    return ((block + n_block - 1) &lt; ((u64)1 &lt;&lt; 28)) &amp;&amp; (n_block &lt;= 256);
  }

HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff,
n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives,
including other HGST drives are not that strict, through.

&gt;From the ATA specification:
(http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf)

  8.15.29  Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors
  This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number
  of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall
  be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh.

So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request
as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum
value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe.

The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do
that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and
the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe
this fix works reliably.

Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck
by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver.

  "28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length"
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/b531b8bce8745fb78825740f00580e23

Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004,
through I have not checked out exact portion of the code.

Signed-off-by: Taisuke Yamada &lt;tai@rakugaki.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ata: add missing ATA_* defines</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</published>
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Add missing ATA_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATAPI_{LFS,EOM,ILI,IO,CODE} defines while at it.

Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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Add missing ATA_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATAPI_{LFS,EOM,ILI,IO,CODE} defines while at it.

Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ata: add missing ATA_CMD_* defines</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</published>
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Add missing ATA_CMD_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATA_EXABYTE_ENABLE_NEST, SETFEATURES_AAM_* and ATA_SMART_*
defines while at it.

Partially based on earlier work by Chris Wedgwood.

Acked-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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Add missing ATA_CMD_* defines to &lt;linux/ata.h&gt;.  Also add
ATA_EXABYTE_ENABLE_NEST, SETFEATURES_AAM_* and ATA_SMART_*
defines while at it.

Partially based on earlier work by Chris Wedgwood.

Acked-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ata: add missing ATA_ID_* defines (take 2)</title>
<updated>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-18T19:40:05+00:00</published>
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Add missing ATA_ID_* defines and update {ata,atapi}_*()
inlines accordingly.  The currently unused defines are
needed for the forthcoming drivers/ide/ changes.

v2:
Add ATA_ID_SPG.

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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Add missing ATA_ID_* defines and update {ata,atapi}_*()
inlines accordingly.  The currently unused defines are
needed for the forthcoming drivers/ide/ changes.

v2:
Add ATA_ID_SPG.

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: automatically use DMADIR if drive/bridge requires it</title>
<updated>2008-02-24T05:27:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-21T04:25:50+00:00</published>
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Back in 2.6.17-rc2, a libata module parameter was added for atapi_dmadir.

That's nice, but most SATA devices which need it will tell us about it
in their IDENTIFY PACKET response, as bit-15 of word-62 of the
returned data (as per ATA7, ATA8 specifications).

So for those which specify it, we should automatically use the DMADIR bit.
Otherwise, disc writing will fail by default on many SATA-ATAPI drives.

This patch adds ATA_DFLAG_DMADIR and make ata_dev_configure() set it
if atapi_dmadir is set or identify data indicates DMADIR is necessary.
atapi_xlat() is converted to check ATA_DFLAG_DMADIR before setting
DMADIR.

Original patch is from Mark Lord.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Lord &lt;mlord@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Back in 2.6.17-rc2, a libata module parameter was added for atapi_dmadir.

That's nice, but most SATA devices which need it will tell us about it
in their IDENTIFY PACKET response, as bit-15 of word-62 of the
returned data (as per ATA7, ATA8 specifications).

So for those which specify it, we should automatically use the DMADIR bit.
Otherwise, disc writing will fail by default on many SATA-ATAPI drives.

This patch adds ATA_DFLAG_DMADIR and make ata_dev_configure() set it
if atapi_dmadir is set or identify data indicates DMADIR is necessary.
atapi_xlat() is converted to check ATA_DFLAG_DMADIR before setting
DMADIR.

Original patch is from Mark Lord.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Lord &lt;mlord@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata annotations and fixes</title>
<updated>2008-01-23T10:24:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-30T09:32:22+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata: rename ATA_PROT_ATAPI_* to ATAPI_PROT_*</title>
<updated>2008-01-23T10:24:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-18T21:34:43+00:00</published>
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ATA_PROT_ATAPI_* are ugly and naming schemes between ATA_PROT_* and
ATA_PROT_ATAPI_* are inconsistent causing confusion.  Rename them to
ATAPI_PROT_* and make them consistent with ATA counterpart.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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ATA_PROT_ATAPI_* are ugly and naming schemes between ATA_PROT_* and
ATA_PROT_ATAPI_* are inconsistent causing confusion.  Rename them to
ATAPI_PROT_* and make them consistent with ATA counterpart.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: add ATA_CBL_PATA_IGN</title>
<updated>2008-01-23T10:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-27T10:43:48+00:00</published>
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ATA_CBL_PATA_UNK indicates that the cable type can't be determined
from the host side and might be either 80c or 40c.  libata applies
drive or other generic limit in this case.  However, there are
controllers where both host and drive side detections are
misimplemented and the driver has to rely solely on private method -
peeking BIOS or ACPI configuration or using some other private
mechanism.

This patch adds ATA_CBL_PATA_IGN which tells libata to ignore the
cable type completely and just let the LLD determine the transfer mode
via host transfer mode masks and -&gt;mode_filter().

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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ATA_CBL_PATA_UNK indicates that the cable type can't be determined
from the host side and might be either 80c or 40c.  libata applies
drive or other generic limit in this case.  However, there are
controllers where both host and drive side detections are
misimplemented and the driver has to rely solely on private method -
peeking BIOS or ACPI configuration or using some other private
mechanism.

This patch adds ATA_CBL_PATA_IGN which tells libata to ignore the
cable type completely and just let the LLD determine the transfer mode
via host transfer mode masks and -&gt;mode_filter().

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: implement protocol tests</title>
<updated>2008-01-23T10:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-27T10:28:53+00:00</published>
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Implement protocol tests - ata_is_atapi(), ata_is_nodata(),
ata_is_pio(), ata_is_dma(), ata_is_ncq() and ata_is_data() and use
them to replace is_atapi_taskfile() and hard coded protocol tests.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Implement protocol tests - ata_is_atapi(), ata_is_nodata(),
ata_is_pio(), ata_is_dma(), ata_is_ncq() and ata_is_data() and use
them to replace is_atapi_taskfile() and hard coded protocol tests.

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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