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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata fails to recover from HSM violation involving DRQ status
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:38:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4633BEE7.8020005@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428222502.26fc9bbc@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> I am reluctant to do anything about this.
> 
> This one does need dealing with. It happens in the real world and the old
> IDE paths for this do get triggered and used now and then (we know this
> because bugs in them were found). All it takes is a device and a
> controller disagreeing about the length of a data transfer to get in a

How would they disagree (excluding human error)?


> mess. In theory resetting the bus should get you out of this, I'm
> suprised we didn't get out that way.

Indeed.


>> All manner of things can go wrong, if the taskfile protocol specified 
>> disagrees with the taskfile contents.
> 
> True but at the point you are trying to do error recovery and DRQ is
> wedged on its a good idea to pull remaining data out of the fifo. 

It's not really a good idea for SATA.  The "FIFO" often co-emulated by 
the SATA controller and SATA phy.  You just want to kick SATA really 
hard (i.e. bus reset and friends).

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 20:15 libata fails to recover from HSM violation involving DRQ status Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:18 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 20:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 20:44   ` Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:50     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 21:25   ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 21:35     ` Mark Lord
2007-04-28 21:38     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-04-28 21:41       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29  3:17         ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29  3:46           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29  7:45             ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29  3:51           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 11:56             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 12:59               ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 13:13                 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 16:42                   ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 16:47                     ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 18:49                       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 19:05                         ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  0:59                           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 19:07                         ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  0:54                           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-30  3:42                             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  3:58                               ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-30 17:47                             ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01  0:23                               ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01  2:47                                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-01 13:00                       ` Mark Lord
2007-05-11  3:33                         ` Mark Lord
2007-05-11  3:35                           ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 12:07           ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 16:36             ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 23:56       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 22:09 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29  3:04   ` Tejun Heo

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