Re: SATA Cold Boot problems on >2.6.25 with NV

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

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Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
>> when ATAPI CHECK SENSE handling somehow failed to tell EH that it was an
>> exception not worth whining about.  Maybe EH action mask is not being
>> cleared properly?
> 
> Hmn, to take my pants down entirely: What is this "EH"?

libata EH == libatata exception handling.

> And how does the change of the .reset function affect this? May be, I
> will take a look onto this.

Your controller is raising exception continuously for some reason.
Have no idea yet.

Can you please apply the attached patch and post the resulting dmesg?

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tejun

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---
 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: tree0/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
===================================================================
--- tree0.orig/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ tree0/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -1890,8 +1890,8 @@ static void ata_eh_link_report(struct at
 		nr_failed++;
 	}
 
-	if (!nr_failed && !ehc->i.err_mask)
-		return;
+	//if (!nr_failed && !ehc->i.err_mask)
+	//	return;
 
 	frozen = "";
 	if (ap->pflags & ATA_PFLAG_FROZEN)