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libata: Keep shadow last_ctl up to date during resets

PATCH Applied Stuart MENEFY 4 participants 5 messages Mar 10, 2009 – Mar 13, 2009 libata

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PATCH 1/1 libata: Keep shadow last_ctl up to date during resets

libata keeps a shadow copy of the ATA CTL register (which is write only), and only writes to the hardware when the required value doesn't match the shadow. However this copy wasn't being maintained when performing reset functions. This could cause problems for the first operation after a reset when the correct value might not be written to the CTL register.

This problem was observed when hotplugging a drive: the identify command was being issued with interrupts enabled, when they should have been disabled.

---
 linux-2.6/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/ata/libata-sff.c +5 -1
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ide/ide-dma-sff.c
===================================================================
@@ -2066,6 +2066,7 @@ static int ata_bus_softreset(struct ata_
 	iowrite8(ap->ctl | ATA_SRST, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
 	udelay(20);	/* FIXME: flush */
 	iowrite8(ap->ctl, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
+	ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
 
 	/* wait the port to become ready */
 	return ata_sff_wait_after_reset(&ap->link, devmask, deadline);
@@ -2190,8 +2191,10 @@ void ata_sff_postreset(struct ata_link *
 	}
 
 	/* set up device control */
-	if (ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr)
+	if (ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr) {
 		iowrite8(ap->ctl, ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
+		ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_postreset);
 
@@ -2534,6 +2537,7 @@ void ata_bus_reset(struct ata_port *ap)
 	if (ap->flags & (ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET | ATA_FLAG_SRST)) {
 		/* set up device control for ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET */
 		iowrite8(ap->ctl, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
+		ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
 	}
 
 	DPRINTK("EXIT\n");
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#1 lore raw

Hello,

Quoted 11 lines · Stuart MENEFY

libata keeps a shadow copy of the ATA CTL register (which is write only), and only writes to the hardware when the required value doesn't match the shadow. However this copy wasn't being maintained when performing reset functions. This could cause problems for the first operation after a reset when the correct value might not be written to the CTL register.

This problem was observed when hotplugging a drive: the identify command was being issued with interrupts enabled, when they should have been disabled.

Nice catch. Maybe a nice addition would be a ata_sff_write_to_ctl() or something which always does the right thing.

Thanks.

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tejun
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Quoted 13 lines · Tejun Heo

Hello,

Quoted 10 lines · Stuart MENEFY

libata keeps a shadow copy of the ATA CTL register (which is write only), and only writes to the hardware when the required value doesn't match the shadow. However this copy wasn't being maintained when performing reset functions. This could cause problems for the first operation after a reset when the correct value might not be written to the CTL register.

This problem was observed when hotplugging a drive: the identify command was being issued with interrupts enabled, when they should have been disabled.

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Nice catch. Maybe a nice addition would be a ata_sff_write_to_ctl() or something which always does the right thing.

..

Mmm.. I wonder if this is severe enough to warrant backporting to -stable for the past couple of releases?

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Quoted 17 lines · Mark Lord
Quoted 16 lines · Tejun Heo

Hello,

Quoted 12 lines · Stuart MENEFY

libata keeps a shadow copy of the ATA CTL register (which is write only),
and only writes to the hardware when the required value doesn't match the shadow. However this copy wasn't being maintained when performing reset functions. This could cause problems for the first operation after a reset when the correct value might not be written to the CTL register.

This problem was observed when hotplugging a drive: the identify command was being issued with interrupts enabled, when they should have been disabled.

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Quoted 4 lines

Nice catch. Maybe a nice addition would be a ata_sff_write_to_ctl() or something which always does the right thing.

..

Mmm.. I wonder if this is severe enough to warrant backporting to -stable for the past couple of releases?

Yeah, I think it can be responsible for at least some of runaway IRQs during detection on ata_piix and is likely to be a good candidate for -stable but I think it would be better to see how it does on -rc first for a while before pushing this -stable. sata_nv breakages very well showed how messed up things can get with obvious fixes. :-)

Thanks.

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Quoted 40 lines · Stuart MENEFY

libata keeps a shadow copy of the ATA CTL register (which is write only), and only writes to the hardware when the required value doesn't match the shadow. However this copy wasn't being maintained when performing reset functions. This could cause problems for the first operation after a reset when the correct value might not be written to the CTL register.

This problem was observed when hotplugging a drive: the identify command was being issued with interrupts enabled, when they should have been disabled.

---
 linux-2.6/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ide/ide-dma-sff.c
===================================================================

drivers/ata/libata-sff.c +4 -1
@@ -2066,6 +2066,7 @@ static int ata_bus_softreset(struct ata_
 	iowrite8(ap->ctl | ATA_SRST, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
 	udelay(20);	/* FIXME: flush */
 	iowrite8(ap->ctl, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
+	ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
 
 	/* wait the port to become ready */
 	return ata_sff_wait_after_reset(&ap->link, devmask, deadline);
@@ -2190,8 +2191,10 @@ void ata_sff_postreset(struct ata_link *
 	}
 
 	/* set up device control */
-	if (ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr)
+	if (ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr) {
 		iowrite8(ap->ctl, ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
+		ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_postreset);
 

drivers/ata/libata-sff.c void ata_bus_reset(struct ata_port *ap) · line 2541

Quoted 5 lines
drivers/ata/libata-sff.c +1 -0
@@ -2534,6 +2537,7 @@ void ata_bus_reset(struct ata_port *ap)
 	if (ap->flags & (ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET | ATA_FLAG_SRST)) {
 		/* set up device control for ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET */
 		iowrite8(ap->ctl, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
+		ap->last_ctl = ap->ctl;
 	}

applied, good catch!