[libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Hi,

I am seeing a problem with libata and the sata_sil driver. I didn't
find a libata specific mailing list so please redirect me if the lkml
is not appropriate.

I am running a 2.6.21 SMP mips kernel and on some occasions the kernel
halts on startup. This only happens at boot time, that is, once the
system is running it never exhibits the problem.

The problem occurs when trying to read the partitions from the SATA
drive, on the first call to read_dev_sector(). As I understand it, the
code finishes doing a sync_page() which starts an asynchronous I/O
operation and sleeps until awaken by an interrupt generated by the
SATA device.

I have followed the code through until the call to ata_bmdma_start(),
where it does:

iowrite8(dmactl | ATA_DMA_START, ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);

On a working case, the device interrupts and the flow continues. On a
non working case, there is a delay of 5 or 6 seconds, and then a
series of calls to sil_freeze(), ata_bmdma_error_handler() and
ata_bmdma_stop().

I am about to delve into the ATA specs to try to understand this
interaction, but has anybody seen this behavior before? Please CC me
on replies.

Regards,
Alex

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Ben Dooks]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:34:45AM +0100, Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeing a problem with libata and the sata_sil driver. I didn't
> find a libata specific mailing list so please redirect me if the lkml
> is not appropriate.

linux-ide@vger.kernel.org is the correct place, I belive.

-- 
Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)

  'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'

[libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Hi,

I am seeing a problem with libata and the sata_sil driver. I was
redirected here from the lkml so I hope it's the correct list for
this.

I am running a 2.6.21 SMP mips kernel and on some occasions the kernel
halts on startup. This only happens at boot time, that is, once the
system is running it never exhibits the problem.

The problem occurs when trying to read the partitions from the SATA
drive, on the first call to read_dev_sector(). As I understand it, the
code finishes doing a sync_page() which starts an asynchronous I/O
operation and sleeps until awaken by an interrupt generated by the
SATA device.

I have followed the code through until the call to ata_bmdma_start(),
where it does:

iowrite8(dmactl | ATA_DMA_START, ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);

On a working case, the device interrupts and the flow continues. On a
non working case, there is a delay of 5 or 6 seconds, and then a
series of calls to sil_freeze(), ata_bmdma_error_handler() and ata_bmdma_stop().

I am about to delve into the ATA specs to try to understand this
interaction, but has anybody seen this behavior before? Please CC me
on replies.

Regards,
Alex

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> I am seeing a problem with libata and the sata_sil driver. I was
> redirected here from the lkml so I hope it's the correct list for
> this.
>
> I am running a 2.6.21 SMP mips kernel and on some occasions the kernel
> halts on startup. This only happens at boot time, that is, once the
> system is running it never exhibits the problem.
>
> The problem occurs when trying to read the partitions from the SATA
> drive, on the first call to read_dev_sector(). As I understand it, the
> code finishes doing a sync_page() which starts an asynchronous I/O
> operation and sleeps until awaken by an interrupt generated by the
> SATA device.
>
> I have followed the code through until the call to ata_bmdma_start(),
> where it does:
>
> iowrite8(dmactl | ATA_DMA_START, ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);
>
> On a working case, the device interrupts and the flow continues. On a
> non working case, there is a delay of 5 or 6 seconds, and then a
> series of calls to sil_freeze(), ata_bmdma_error_handler() and ata_bmdma_stop().
>
> I am about to delve into the ATA specs to try to understand this
>   

   ATA spec. itself won't avail here, it doesn't cover host's DMA 
support. You probably want to read the part concerning "PCI 
Compatibility and PCI-Native Mode Bus Master Adapters" pf this document:

http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1510r1-Host-Adapter.pdf

> interaction, but has anybody seen this behavior before? Please CC me
> on replies.
>   

   Generally, DMA timeouts are seen quite frequently...

MBR, Sergei

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Thanks for the tip Sergei. The timeout in question lasts several
seconds and is unrecoverable, finishing with a bus error. I could be
looking at a hardware problem, but I have tried different drives,
cables and I even see it on different units.

And most of the times everything works fine.

Regards,
Alex

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>> I am seeing a problem with libata and the sata_sil driver. I was
>> redirected here from the lkml so I hope it's the correct list for
>> this.
>>
>> I am running a 2.6.21 SMP mips kernel and on some occasions the kernel
>> halts on startup. This only happens at boot time, that is, once the
>> system is running it never exhibits the problem.
>>
>> The problem occurs when trying to read the partitions from the SATA
>> drive, on the first call to read_dev_sector(). As I understand it, the
>> code finishes doing a sync_page() which starts an asynchronous I/O
>> operation and sleeps until awaken by an interrupt generated by the
>> SATA device.
>>
>> I have followed the code through until the call to ata_bmdma_start(),
>> where it does:
>>
>> iowrite8(dmactl | ATA_DMA_START, ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);
>>
>> On a working case, the device interrupts and the flow continues. On a
>> non working case, there is a delay of 5 or 6 seconds, and then a
>> series of calls to sil_freeze(), ata_bmdma_error_handler() and
>> ata_bmdma_stop().
>>
>> I am about to delve into the ATA specs to try to understand this
>>
>
>  ATA spec. itself won't avail here, it doesn't cover host's DMA support. You
> probably want to read the part concerning "PCI Compatibility and PCI-Native
> Mode Bus Master Adapters" pf this document:
>
> http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1510r1-Host-Adapter.pdf
>
>> interaction, but has anybody seen this behavior before? Please CC me
>> on replies.
>>
>
>  Generally, DMA timeouts are seen quite frequently...
>
> MBR, Sergei
>
>
>

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Tejun Heo]

Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> Thanks for the tip Sergei. The timeout in question lasts several
> seconds and is unrecoverable, finishing with a bus error. I could be
> looking at a hardware problem, but I have tried different drives,
> cables and I even see it on different units.
> 
> And most of the times everything works fine.

Care to post the kernel log, preferably with timestamps?

-- 
tejun

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Of course,

An extract of the working kernel log,

[4294670.795000] 0:<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[4294670.796000] 0:<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO
modes; override with idebus=xx
[4294670.797000] 0:Initializing Phoenix PCMCIA IDE...
[4294670.798000] 0:Phoenix PCMCIA configured as IDE interface = 0
[4294670.799000] 0:<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294671.058000] 0:hda: CF CARD 2GB, 0:CFA DISK drive
[4294671.672000] 0:ide0 at 0xbd0001f1-0xbd0001f8,0xbd0003f7 on irq 210:
[4294671.674000] 0:<6>hda: max request size: 128KiB
[4294671.675000] 0:<6>hda: 3964464 sectors (2029 MB)0: w/1KiB Cache0:,
CHS=3933/16/630:
[4294671.679000] 0:<6> hda:0: hda10:
[4294671.721000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
[4294671.722000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
activate FIS errata fix
[4294671.723000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
[4294671.724000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
[4294671.725000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
[4294672.180000] 3:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[4294672.205000] 3:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
[4294672.223000] 3:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
(depth 0/32)
[4294672.248000] 3:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[4294672.262000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
[4294672.567000] 3:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[4294672.585000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[4294672.586000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.587000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.588000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.589000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.590000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.591000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.592000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.593000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.594000] 0:<6> sda:0: sda10: sda20: sda30: sda40:
[4294672.624000] 0:<5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

And the non working log,

[4294670.790000] 0:<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[4294670.791000] 0:<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO
modes; override with idebus=xx
[4294670.792000] 0:Initializing Phoenix PCMCIA IDE...
[4294670.793000] 0:Phoenix PCMCIA configured as IDE interface = 0
[4294670.794000] 0:<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294671.053000] 0:hda: CF CARD 2GB, 0:CFA DISK drive
[4294671.667000] 0:ide0 at 0xbd0001f1-0xbd0001f8,0xbd0003f7 on irq 210:
[4294671.669000] 0:<6>hda: max request size: 128KiB
[4294671.670000] 0:<6>hda: 3964464 sectors (2029 MB)0: w/1KiB Cache0:,
CHS=3933/16/630:
[4294671.674000] 0:<6> hda:0: hda10:
[4294671.680000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
[4294671.681000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
activate FIS errata fix
[4294671.682000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
[4294671.683000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
[4294671.684000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
[4294672.142000] 2:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[4294672.165000] 2:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
[4294672.183000] 2:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
(depth 0/32)
[4294672.208000] 2:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[4294672.222000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
[4294672.526000] 2:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[4294672.544000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[4294672.545000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.546000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.547000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.548000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.549000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.550000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.551000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.552000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.553000] 0:<6> sda:

< Added: Big pause around 10 secs>

*********************************************
cpu_0 received a bus/cache error
*********************************************
Bridge: Phys Addr = 0x0000000000, Device_AERR = 0x00000000
Bridge: The devices reporting AERR are:
CPU: (XLR specific) Cache Error log = 0x0000007800004601, Phy Addr =
0x00f0000088
CPU: epc = 0x8340e324, errorepc = 0x835bccd4, cacheerr = 0x00000000
Can not handle bus/cache error - Halting cpu

With some printks to follow the action:

:<6> sda:0:msdos_partition: sector_size=1
0:read_dev_sector: mapping = 87946cac
0:__read_cache_page:cached_page=83a15580
0:read_cache_page: page=83a15580
0:lock_page
0:sync_page on mm/filemap.c
0:block_sync_page
0:blk_run_backing_dev()
0:blk_backing_dev_unplug()
0:scsi_request_fn
0:scsi_dispatch_cmd
0:ata_scsi_queuecmd
0:ata_scsi_translate
0:***ata_qc_prep***
0:***ata_check_status***
0:***ata_std_dev_select***
0:***ata_check_status***
0:***ata_check_status***
0:***ata_tf_load
0:***ata_bmdma_setup***
0:***ata_exec_command***
0:***ata_bmdma_start***
0:Dispatched cmd 8b64eba0 with rth 0

<PAUSE>

0:***sil_freeze()***
0:***ata_bmdma_error_handler***
0:***ata_bmdma_status***
0:***ata_bmdma_stop***
*********************************************
cpu_0 received a bus/cache error
*********************************************
Bridge: Phys Addr = 0x0000000000, Device_AERR = 0x00000000
Bridge: The devices reporting AERR are:
CPU: (XLR specific) Cache Error log = 0x0000007800004601, Phy Addr =
0x00f0000088
CPU: epc = 0x83435dfc, errorepc = 0x835bf054, cacheerr = 0x00000000
Can not handle bus/cache error - Halting cpu

Please tell me if a full trace would be better than these extracts,

Regards,
Alex

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip Sergei. The timeout in question lasts several
>> seconds and is unrecoverable, finishing with a bus error. I could be
>> looking at a hardware problem, but I have tried different drives,
>> cables and I even see it on different units.
>>
>> And most of the times everything works fine.
>
> Care to post the kernel log, preferably with timestamps?
>
> --
> tejun
>

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> :<6> sda:0:msdos_partition: sector_size=1
> 0:read_dev_sector: mapping = 87946cac
> 0:__read_cache_page:cached_page=83a15580
> 0:read_cache_page: page=83a15580
> 0:lock_page
> 0:sync_page on mm/filemap.c
> 0:block_sync_page
> 0:blk_run_backing_dev()
> 0:blk_backing_dev_unplug()
> 0:scsi_request_fn
> 0:scsi_dispatch_cmd
> 0:ata_scsi_queuecmd
> 0:ata_scsi_translate
> 0:***ata_qc_prep***
> 0:***ata_check_status***
> 0:***ata_std_dev_select***
> 0:***ata_check_status***
> 0:***ata_check_status***
> 0:***ata_tf_load
> 0:***ata_bmdma_setup***
> 0:***ata_exec_command***
> 0:***ata_bmdma_start***
> 0:Dispatched cmd 8b64eba0 with rth 0
> 
> <PAUSE>
> 
> 0:***sil_freeze()***
> 0:***ata_bmdma_error_handler***

This is libata error handling kicking in after detecting command
timeout.

> 0:***ata_bmdma_status***
> 0:***ata_bmdma_stop***

And EH tries to stop the bmdma engine.

> *********************************************
> cpu_0 received a bus/cache error
> *********************************************
> Bridge: Phys Addr = 0x0000000000, Device_AERR = 0x00000000
> Bridge: The devices reporting AERR are:
> CPU: (XLR specific) Cache Error log = 0x0000007800004601, Phy Addr =
> 0x00f0000088
> CPU: epc = 0x83435dfc, errorepc = 0x835bf054, cacheerr = 0x00000000
> Can not handle bus/cache error - Halting cpu

Which triggers bus/cache error.  Hmmm... When the booting works, does
the drive keep working after boot?  ie. if you put the drive under
stress test, does the system survive.  Also, error handling shouldn't
trigger bus/cache error.  Do you know what the bus/cache error means?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Hi Tejun,

I haven't placed the drive under stress test, but it does work OK
under normal conditions without errors or timeouts in the log.

>From the cache error, I know that the physical region iomapped in
0xf0000000 - 0xf0000200 is the PCI memory space, so the exception is
being caused by trying to access this area.

I haven't yet looked deeply into it, I was assuming the action of
stopping the bmdma engine might have triggered the exception. If not,
why not receive an immediate exception without the 10secs timeout?

Regards,
Alex

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>> :<6> sda:0:msdos_partition: sector_size=1
>> 0:read_dev_sector: mapping = 87946cac
>> 0:__read_cache_page:cached_page=83a15580
>> 0:read_cache_page: page=83a15580
>> 0:lock_page
>> 0:sync_page on mm/filemap.c
>> 0:block_sync_page
>> 0:blk_run_backing_dev()
>> 0:blk_backing_dev_unplug()
>> 0:scsi_request_fn
>> 0:scsi_dispatch_cmd
>> 0:ata_scsi_queuecmd
>> 0:ata_scsi_translate
>> 0:***ata_qc_prep***
>> 0:***ata_check_status***
>> 0:***ata_std_dev_select***
>> 0:***ata_check_status***
>> 0:***ata_check_status***
>> 0:***ata_tf_load
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_setup***
>> 0:***ata_exec_command***
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_start***
>> 0:Dispatched cmd 8b64eba0 with rth 0
>>
>> <PAUSE>
>>
>> 0:***sil_freeze()***
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_error_handler***
>
> This is libata error handling kicking in after detecting command
> timeout.
>
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_status***
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_stop***
>
> And EH tries to stop the bmdma engine.
>
>> *********************************************
>> cpu_0 received a bus/cache error
>> *********************************************
>> Bridge: Phys Addr = 0x0000000000, Device_AERR = 0x00000000
>> Bridge: The devices reporting AERR are:
>> CPU: (XLR specific) Cache Error log = 0x0000007800004601, Phy Addr =
>> 0x00f0000088
>> CPU: epc = 0x83435dfc, errorepc = 0x835bf054, cacheerr = 0x00000000
>> Can not handle bus/cache error - Halting cpu
>
> Which triggers bus/cache error.  Hmmm... When the booting works, does
> the drive keep working after boot?  ie. if you put the drive under
> stress test, does the system survive.  Also, error handling shouldn't
> trigger bus/cache error.  Do you know what the bus/cache error means?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun
>

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> I haven't placed the drive under stress test, but it does work OK
> under normal conditions without errors or timeouts in the log.

Hmm... Okay.

>>From the cache error, I know that the physical region iomapped in
> 0xf0000000 - 0xf0000200 is the PCI memory space, so the exception is
> being caused by trying to access this area.
> 
> I haven't yet looked deeply into it, I was assuming the action of
> stopping the bmdma engine might have triggered the exception. If not,
> why not receive an immediate exception without the 10secs timeout?

Yeah, it's caused by EH trying to stop the BMDMA engine but it
shouldn't.  It works well on other platforms.  Can you try to diagnose
the bus failure?  Working EH will be able to tell us more about the
problem.

-- 
tejun

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Hi all,

I got some more information regarding this issue.

After reading "PCI Compatibility and PCI-Native Mode Bus Master
Adapters" as pointed by Sergei, I printed the Bus Master ATA status
register (offset 0x2), the PCI status/command (offset 0x4) register
and the SATA ATA status (offset 0x104), control (offset 0x100) and
error (offset 0x108) registers looking for clues.

:***sil_freeze()***
0:***ata_bmdma_status=00000002
0:PCI status=02b00016
0:SATA status 00000113 ctl 00000310 err 00000000

Everything looks fine to me, except maybe bits 1 and 4 of the PCI
status. The Silicon Image Sil3512 datasheet specifies that bit 4
should be hardcoded to zero, and bit 0 (the IO space enable)  is
strangely zero, maybe it's set dynamically when needed?

Following on Tejun's advise, I found out that just the delay of a
printk in ata_bmdma_stop(), right after the iowrite8,  gets rid of the
cache error and it's replaced by this:

[4294671.719000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
[4294671.720000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
activate FIS errata fix
[4294671.722000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
[4294671.724000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
[4294671.725000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
[4294672.182000] 2:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[4294672.205000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
[4294672.219000] 2:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
[4294672.238000] 2:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
(depth 0/32)
[4294672.259000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
[4294672.277000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
[4294672.291000] 2:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[4294672.306000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
[4294672.610000] 2:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[4294672.628000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[4294672.630000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.631000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.632000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.633000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.634000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
(160042 MB)
[4294672.635000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
[4294672.636000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[4294672.637000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[4294672.638000] 0:<6> sda:0:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
[4294702.640000] 0:<3>ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[4294702.641000] 0:<3>ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0
tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[4294702.641000]          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00
Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
[4294702.646000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
[4294702.651000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
[4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
[4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
[4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
[4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087

and never comes back.

I'll try to decode the ATA error see where it takes me next.

Thanks for your continued help and patience,
Alex



On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>> I haven't placed the drive under stress test, but it does work OK
>> under normal conditions without errors or timeouts in the log.
>
> Hmm... Okay.
>
>>>From the cache error, I know that the physical region iomapped in
>> 0xf0000000 - 0xf0000200 is the PCI memory space, so the exception is
>> being caused by trying to access this area.
>>
>> I haven't yet looked deeply into it, I was assuming the action of
>> stopping the bmdma engine might have triggered the exception. If not,
>> why not receive an immediate exception without the 10secs timeout?
>
> Yeah, it's caused by EH trying to stop the BMDMA engine but it
> shouldn't.  It works well on other platforms.  Can you try to diagnose
> the bus failure?  Working EH will be able to tell us more about the
> problem.
>
> --
> tejun
>

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Alex Gonzalez wrote:

> I got some more information regarding this issue.
>
> After reading "PCI Compatibility and PCI-Native Mode Bus Master
> Adapters" as pointed by Sergei, I printed the Bus Master ATA status
> register (offset 0x2), the PCI status/command (offset 0x4) register
> and the SATA ATA status (offset 0x104), control (offset 0x100) and
> error (offset 0x108) registers looking for clues.
>
> :***sil_freeze()***
> 0:***ata_bmdma_status=00000002
>   

   This status means that transfer ended due to a PCI error.

> 0:PCI status=02b00016
> 0:SATA status 00000113 ctl 00000310 err 00000000
>
> Everything looks fine to me, except maybe bits 1 and 4 of the PCI
> status. The Silicon Image Sil3512 datasheet specifies that bit 4
> should be hardcoded to zero, and bit 0 (the IO space enable)  is
> strangely zero, maybe it's set dynamically when needed?
>   

   No, it's setn when enabling the dvice if it has BARs in I/O space. Or 
at least it should be...

> Following on Tejun's advise, I found out that just the delay of a
> printk in ata_bmdma_stop(), right after the iowrite8,  gets rid of the
> cache error and it's replaced by this:
>   

    Hm, maybe it was the cache error was what stopped the DMA transfer?

> [4294671.719000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
> [4294671.720000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
> activate FIS errata fix
> [4294671.722000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
> 0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
> [4294671.724000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
> 0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
>   

   Memory mapped registers are used by the driver. So, probably I/O 
space was not enabled on purpose -- can't find the implementation of 
pci_enable_device() right now...

> [4294671.725000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
> [4294672.182000] 2:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> [4294672.205000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
> [4294672.219000] 2:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
> [4294672.238000] 2:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
> (depth 0/32)
> [4294672.259000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
> [4294672.277000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
> [4294672.291000] 2:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [4294672.306000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
> [4294672.610000] 2:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
> [4294672.628000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
> ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [4294672.630000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (160042 MB)
> [4294672.631000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
> [4294672.632000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [4294672.633000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [4294672.634000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (160042 MB)
> [4294672.635000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
> [4294672.636000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [4294672.637000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [4294672.638000] 0:<6> sda:0:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
> [4294702.640000] 0:<3>ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> [4294702.641000] 0:<3>ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0
> tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
>   

   The command failed was READ DMA.

> [4294702.641000]          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00
> Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
>   

   Hum, the output IDE taskfile looks strange... status of 0x40 and all 
0s in other regs...

> [4294702.646000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
> [4294702.651000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>   

  Hum, it's a status characterisitc for an unfinished PIO transfer.

> and never comes back.
>
> I'll try to decode the ATA error see where it takes me next.
>   

  Did that for you. :-)
  BTW, the tables at 
http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages lack the 
explanation of a number after the last slash...

> Thanks for your continued help and patience,
> Alex
>   

MBR, Sergei

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Thanks for that Sergei.

To this point there is little more information we can get from a
software perspective. I am handing this over to hardware design. I'll
make sure I'll update the thread when a solution is found, if only to
assert it as a hardware design issue.

Thanks for all your help,
Alex

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> I got some more information regarding this issue.
>>
>> After reading "PCI Compatibility and PCI-Native Mode Bus Master
>> Adapters" as pointed by Sergei, I printed the Bus Master ATA status
>> register (offset 0x2), the PCI status/command (offset 0x4) register
>> and the SATA ATA status (offset 0x104), control (offset 0x100) and
>> error (offset 0x108) registers looking for clues.
>>
>> :***sil_freeze()***
>> 0:***ata_bmdma_status=00000002
>>
>
>  This status means that transfer ended due to a PCI error.
>
>> 0:PCI status=02b00016
>> 0:SATA status 00000113 ctl 00000310 err 00000000
>>
>> Everything looks fine to me, except maybe bits 1 and 4 of the PCI
>> status. The Silicon Image Sil3512 datasheet specifies that bit 4
>> should be hardcoded to zero, and bit 0 (the IO space enable)  is
>> strangely zero, maybe it's set dynamically when needed?
>>
>
>  No, it's setn when enabling the dvice if it has BARs in I/O space. Or at
> least it should be...
>
>> Following on Tejun's advise, I found out that just the delay of a
>> printk in ata_bmdma_stop(), right after the iowrite8,  gets rid of the
>> cache error and it's replaced by this:
>>
>
>   Hm, maybe it was the cache error was what stopped the DMA transfer?
>
>> [4294671.719000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
>> [4294671.720000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
>> activate FIS errata fix
>> [4294671.722000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
>> 0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
>> [4294671.724000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
>> 0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
>>
>
>  Memory mapped registers are used by the driver. So, probably I/O space was
> not enabled on purpose -- can't find the implementation of
> pci_enable_device() right now...
>
>> [4294671.725000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
>> [4294672.182000] 2:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl
>> 310)
>> [4294672.205000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>> [4294672.219000] 2:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
>> [4294672.238000] 2:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
>> (depth 0/32)
>> [4294672.259000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>> [4294672.277000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>> [4294672.291000] 2:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
>> [4294672.306000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
>> [4294672.610000] 2:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
>> [4294672.628000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
>> ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>> [4294672.630000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
>> (160042 MB)
>> [4294672.631000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
>> [4294672.632000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> [4294672.633000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
>> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>> [4294672.634000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
>> (160042 MB)
>> [4294672.635000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
>> [4294672.636000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> [4294672.637000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
>> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>> [4294672.638000] 0:<6> sda:0:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>> [4294702.640000] 0:<3>ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0
>> action 0x0
>> [4294702.641000] 0:<3>ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0
>> tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
>>
>
>  The command failed was READ DMA.
>
>> [4294702.641000]          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00
>> Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
>>
>
>  Hum, the output IDE taskfile looks strange... status of 0x40 and all 0s in
> other regs...
>
>> [4294702.646000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>> [4294702.651000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>
>
>  Hum, it's a status characterisitc for an unfinished PIO transfer.
>
>> and never comes back.
>>
>> I'll try to decode the ATA error see where it takes me next.
>>
>
>  Did that for you. :-)
>  BTW, the tables at
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages lack the
> explanation of a number after the last slash...
>
>> Thanks for your continued help and patience,
>> Alex
>>
>
> MBR, Sergei
>
>
>

Re: [libata/sata_sil] Error on startup

[Alex Gonzalez]

Hi,

I finally have an update on this issue. It all boiled down to an
errata on the XLR CPU (PA1041.1 - PCI-X host mode can only use BAR0 in
32-bit mode ). The bootloader had a workaround applied for it, but it
had a bug when applying the workaround to specific CPU revisions, and
unfortunately the revision I was using needed the fix but didn't have
it applied. The result was the PCI subblock sometimes not recognizing
the correct addressing.

Thanks for your help, really appreciated.
Alex

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Alex Gonzalez <langabe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that Sergei.
>
> To this point there is little more information we can get from a
> software perspective. I am handing this over to hardware design. I'll
> make sure I'll update the thread when a solution is found, if only to
> assert it as a hardware design issue.
>
> Thanks for all your help,
> Alex
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Alex Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>> I got some more information regarding this issue.
>>>
>>> After reading "PCI Compatibility and PCI-Native Mode Bus Master
>>> Adapters" as pointed by Sergei, I printed the Bus Master ATA status
>>> register (offset 0x2), the PCI status/command (offset 0x4) register
>>> and the SATA ATA status (offset 0x104), control (offset 0x100) and
>>> error (offset 0x108) registers looking for clues.
>>>
>>> :***sil_freeze()***
>>> 0:***ata_bmdma_status=00000002
>>>
>>
>>  This status means that transfer ended due to a PCI error.
>>
>>> 0:PCI status=02b00016
>>> 0:SATA status 00000113 ctl 00000310 err 00000000
>>>
>>> Everything looks fine to me, except maybe bits 1 and 4 of the PCI
>>> status. The Silicon Image Sil3512 datasheet specifies that bit 4
>>> should be hardcoded to zero, and bit 0 (the IO space enable)  is
>>> strangely zero, maybe it's set dynamically when needed?
>>>
>>
>>  No, it's setn when enabling the dvice if it has BARs in I/O space. Or at
>> least it should be...
>>
>>> Following on Tejun's advise, I found out that just the delay of a
>>> printk in ata_bmdma_stop(), right after the iowrite8,  gets rid of the
>>> cache error and it's replaced by this:
>>>
>>
>>   Hm, maybe it was the cache error was what stopped the DMA transfer?
>>
>>> [4294671.719000] 0:<7>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: version 2.1
>>> [4294671.720000] 0:<6>sata_sil 0000:00:01.0: Applying R_ERR on DMA
>>> activate FIS errata fix
>>> [4294671.722000] 0:<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc0000080 ctl
>>> 0xc000008a bmdma 0xc0000000 irq 24
>>> [4294671.724000] 0:<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xc00000c0 ctl
>>> 0xc00000ca bmdma 0xc0000008 irq 24
>>>
>>
>>  Memory mapped registers are used by the driver. So, probably I/O space was
>> not enabled on purpose -- can't find the implementation of
>> pci_enable_device() right now...
>>
>>> [4294671.725000] 0:<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
>>> [4294672.182000] 2:<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl
>>> 310)
>>> [4294672.205000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>>> [4294672.219000] 2:<6>ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
>>> [4294672.238000] 2:<6>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ
>>> (depth 0/32)
>>> [4294672.259000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>>> [4294672.277000] 2:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>>> [4294672.291000] 2:<6>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
>>> [4294672.306000] 0:<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
>>> [4294672.610000] 2:<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
>>> [4294672.628000] 0:<5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA
>>> ST3160815AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>>> [4294672.630000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
>>> (160042 MB)
>>> [4294672.631000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
>>> [4294672.632000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>>> [4294672.633000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
>>> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>>> [4294672.634000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors
>>> (160042 MB)
>>> [4294672.635000] 0:<5>sda: Write Protect is off
>>> [4294672.636000] 0:<7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>>> [4294672.637000] 0:<5>SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read
>>> cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>>> [4294672.638000] 0:<6> sda:0:drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:368: Delay
>>> [4294702.640000] 0:<3>ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0
>>> action 0x0
>>> [4294702.641000] 0:<3>ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0
>>> tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
>>>
>>
>>  The command failed was READ DMA.
>>
>>> [4294702.641000]          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00
>>> Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
>>>
>>
>>  Hum, the output IDE taskfile looks strange... status of 0x40 and all 0s in
>> other regs...
>>
>>> [4294702.646000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>> [4294702.651000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>> [4294702.652000] 0:<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xc0000087
>>>
>>
>>  Hum, it's a status characterisitc for an unfinished PIO transfer.
>>
>>> and never comes back.
>>>
>>> I'll try to decode the ATA error see where it takes me next.
>>>
>>
>>  Did that for you. :-)
>>  BTW, the tables at
>> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages lack the
>> explanation of a number after the last slash...
>>
>>> Thanks for your continued help and patience,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>> MBR, Sergei
>>
>>
>>
>