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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ</title>
<updated>2008-12-05T18:55:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2008-11-27T04:36:48+00:00</published>
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commit ac70a964b0e22a95af3628c344815857a01461b7 upstream.

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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit ac70a964b0e22a95af3628c344815857a01461b7 upstream.

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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>libata: Fix a large collection of DMA mode mismatches</title>
<updated>2008-08-22T06:27:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-01T08:18:34+00:00</published>
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Dave Müller sent a diff for the pata_oldpiix that highlighted a problem
where a lot of the ATA drivers assume dma_mode == 0 means "no DMA" while
the core code uses 0xFF.

This turns out to have other consequences such as code doing &gt;= XFER_UDMA_0
also catching 0xFF as UDMAlots. Fortunately it doesn't generally affect
set_dma_mode, although some drivers call back into their own set mode code
from other points.

Having been through the drivers I've added helpers for using_udma/using_mwdma
dma_enabled so that people don't open code ranges that may change (eg if UDMA8
appears somewhere)

Thanks to David for the initial bits
[and added fix for pata_oldpiix from and signed-off-by Dave Mueller
 &lt;dave.mueller@gmx.ch&gt;  -jg]

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Dave Müller sent a diff for the pata_oldpiix that highlighted a problem
where a lot of the ATA drivers assume dma_mode == 0 means "no DMA" while
the core code uses 0xFF.

This turns out to have other consequences such as code doing &gt;= XFER_UDMA_0
also catching 0xFF as UDMAlots. Fortunately it doesn't generally affect
set_dma_mode, although some drivers call back into their own set mode code
from other points.

Having been through the drivers I've added helpers for using_udma/using_mwdma
dma_enabled so that people don't open code ranges that may change (eg if UDMA8
appears somewhere)

Thanks to David for the initial bits
[and added fix for pata_oldpiix from and signed-off-by Dave Mueller
 &lt;dave.mueller@gmx.ch&gt;  -jg]

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>libata: restore SControl on detach</title>
<updated>2008-08-22T06:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-31T07:09:34+00:00</published>
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Save SControl during probing and restore it on detach.  This prevents
adjustments made by libata drivers to seep into the next driver which
gets attached (be it a libata one or not).

It's not clear whether SControl also needs to be restored on suspend.
The next system to have control (ACPI or kexec'd kernel) would
probably like to see the original SControl value but there's no
guarantee that a link is gonna keep working after SControl is adjusted
without a reset and adding a reset and modified recovery cycle soley
for this is an overkill.  For now, do it only for detach.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Save SControl during probing and restore it on detach.  This prevents
adjustments made by libata drivers to seep into the next driver which
gets attached (be it a libata one or not).

It's not clear whether SControl also needs to be restored on suspend.
The next system to have control (ACPI or kexec'd kernel) would
probably like to see the original SControl value but there's no
guarantee that a link is gonna keep working after SControl is adjusted
without a reset and adding a reset and modified recovery cycle soley
for this is an overkill.  For now, do it only for detach.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>libata: implement no[hs]rst force params</title>
<updated>2008-08-22T06:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-13T11:19:09+00:00</published>
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Implement force params nohrst, nosrst and norst.  This is to work
around reset related problems and ease debugging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Implement force params nohrst, nosrst and norst.  This is to work
around reset related problems and ease debugging.

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>
<title>pata_it821x: Driver updates and reworking</title>
<updated>2008-07-31T06:04:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-24T16:16:06+00:00</published>
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- Add support for the RDC 1010 variant
- Rework the core library to have a read_id method. This allows the hacky
  bits of it821x to go and prepares us for pata_hd
- Switch from WARN to BUG in ata_id_string as it will reboot if you get
  it wrong so WARN won't be seen
- Allow the issue of command 0xFC on the 821x. This is needed to query
  rebuild status.
- Tidy up printk formatting
- Do more ident rewriting on RAID volumes to handle firmware provided
  ident data which is rather wonky
- Report the firmware revision and device layout in RAID mode
- Don't try and disable raid on the 8211 or RDC - they don't have the
  relevant bits

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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- Add support for the RDC 1010 variant
- Rework the core library to have a read_id method. This allows the hacky
  bits of it821x to go and prepares us for pata_hd
- Switch from WARN to BUG in ata_id_string as it will reboot if you get
  it wrong so WARN won't be seen
- Allow the issue of command 0xFC on the 821x. This is needed to query
  rebuild status.
- Tidy up printk formatting
- Do more ident rewriting on RAID volumes to handle firmware provided
  ident data which is rather wonky
- Report the firmware revision and device layout in RAID mode
- Don't try and disable raid on the 8211 or RDC - they don't have the
  relevant bits

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata.h: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__</title>
<updated>2008-07-31T05:48:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Beregalov</name>
<email>a.beregalov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-20T20:06:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata/ahci: enclosure management support</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T19:59:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kristen Carlson Accardi</name>
<email>kristen.c.accardi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-03T17:33:55+00:00</published>
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Add Enclosure Management support to libata and ahci.

Signed-off-by:  Kristen Carlson Accardi &lt;kristen.c.accardi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Add Enclosure Management support to libata and ahci.

Signed-off-by:  Kristen Carlson Accardi &lt;kristen.c.accardi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libata: improve EH internal command timeout handling</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T19:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-19T17:17:54+00:00</published>
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ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL which was 30secs were used for all internal
commands which is way too long when something goes wrong.  This patch
implements command type based stepped timeouts.  Different command
types can use different timeouts and each command type can use
different timeout values after timeouts.

ie. the initial timeout is set to a value which should cover most of
the cases but not too long so that run away cases don't delay things
too much.  After the first try times out, the second try can use
longer timeout and if that one times out too, it can go for full 30sec
timeout.

IDENTIFYs use 5s - 10s - 30s timeout and all other commands use 5s -
10s timeouts.

This patch significantly cuts down the needed time to handle failure
cases while still allowing libata to work with nut job devices through
retries.

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_TMOUT_INTERNAL which was 30secs were used for all internal
commands which is way too long when something goes wrong.  This patch
implements command type based stepped timeouts.  Different command
types can use different timeouts and each command type can use
different timeout values after timeouts.

ie. the initial timeout is set to a value which should cover most of
the cases but not too long so that run away cases don't delay things
too much.  After the first try times out, the second try can use
longer timeout and if that one times out too, it can go for full 30sec
timeout.

IDENTIFYs use 5s - 10s - 30s timeout and all other commands use 5s -
10s timeouts.

This patch significantly cuts down the needed time to handle failure
cases while still allowing libata to work with nut job devices through
retries.

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: 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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