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libata: don't normalize UNKNOWN to NONE after reset

PATCH Applied Tejun Heo 2 participants 2 messages Jan 8, 2008 – Jan 10, 2008 libata

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PATCH 1/1 libata: don't normalize UNKNOWN to NONE after reset

After non-classifying reset, ehc->classes[] could contain ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN which used to be normalized to ATA_DEV_NONE for consistency. However, this causes unfortunate side effect for drivers which have non-classifying hardresets (e.g. sata_nv) by making hardreset report ATA_DEV_NONE for non-classifying resets and thus makes EH believe that the port is unoccupied and recovery can be skipped. The end result is that after a device is swapped with another one, the new device isn't attached after the old one is detached.

This patch makes ata_eh_reset() not normalize UNKNOWN to NONE after non-classifying resets. This fixes the above problem. As UNKNOWN and NONE are handled differently by only EH hotplug logic, this doesn't cause other behavior changes.

Cc Robert Hancock <[email protected]>

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Robert, missing new device was a bug in core EH logic not sata_nv. BTW, I did quite a few hotplug tests with adma=0 and it works just fine. No lock up.

 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +1 -3
index f0124a8..e7757dd 100644
@@ -2157,13 +2157,11 @@ int ata_eh_reset(struct ata_link *link, int classify,
 		if (ata_link_offline(link))
 			continue;
 
-		/* apply class override and convert UNKNOWN to NONE */
+		/* apply class override */
 		if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_ATA)
 			classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_ATA;
 		else if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_SEMB)
 			classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_SEMB_UNSUP; /* not yet */
-		else if (classes[dev->devno] == ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN)
-			classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_NONE;
 	}
 
 	/* record current link speed */
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Quoted 17 lines · Tejun Heo

After non-classifying reset, ehc->classes[] could contain ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN which used to be normalized to ATA_DEV_NONE for consistency. However, this causes unfortunate side effect for drivers which have non-classifying hardresets (e.g. sata_nv) by making hardreset report ATA_DEV_NONE for non-classifying resets and thus makes EH believe that the port is unoccupied and recovery can be skipped. The end result is that after a device is swapped with another one, the new device isn't attached after the old one is detached.

This patch makes ata_eh_reset() not normalize UNKNOWN to NONE after non-classifying resets. This fixes the above problem. As UNKNOWN and NONE are handled differently by only EH hotplug logic, this doesn't cause other behavior changes.

Cc Robert Hancock <[email protected]>
Quoted 7 lines

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Robert, missing new device was a bug in core EH logic not sata_nv. BTW, I did quite a few hotplug tests with adma=0 and it works just fine. No lock up.

 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

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