Re: Regression 3.2 -> 3.3-rc1 10 sec hang at boot and resume, COMRESET failed

[Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 14:43 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 03 Feb 2012, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > I didn't try to revert that commit on top of HEAD.
> > 
> > Please revert that commit to test.
> > That helps us to make sure we find the exact bad commit.
> 
> Confirmed. Reverted 7faa33da9b7 on top of 6c073a7ee250 made
> the boot delay go away. dmesg from this boot attached.

Dig into the code, but I can't find where the problem is.

Anyway, does below DEBUG patch help?
Let's always stop the engine during hard reset.

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci.c b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
index a72bfd0..8fef702 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
@@ -578,10 +578,6 @@ int ahci_stop_engine(struct ata_port *ap)
 
 	tmp = readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
 
-	/* check if the HBA is idle */
-	if ((tmp & (PORT_CMD_START | PORT_CMD_LIST_ON)) == 0)
-		return 0;
-
 	/* setting HBA to idle */
 	tmp &= ~PORT_CMD_START;
 	writel(tmp, port_mmio + PORT_CMD);


> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
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