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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Michael Leun <lkml20100708@newton.leun.net>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.38-rc7] Revert "libata: ahci_start_engine compliant to AHCI spec"
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520154341.GL31426@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10124.1305906020@localhost>

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:40:20AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:14:56 PDT, Jian Peng said:
> 
> > > @@ -1353,6 +1332,8 @@
> > >
> > >
> > >   ahci_start_engine(ap);
> > >
> > > + msleep(5);
> > > +
> > >   if (online)
> > >
> > >    *class = ahci_dev_classify(ap);
> > >
> 
> It may very well be that adding a magic msleep(5) here just Makes It Work, but
> I have a gut feeling that it's in the wrong place (for starters, 'online' can't change
> during the msleep() unless somebody *else* sets it - in which case the locking
> is screwed up as we're not forcing a re-read of the value).  The msleep() probably
> needs to be before something else further down in the code (but I have no idea
> exactly what).

At this point, I think it would be better to simply add a flag and
enable the check for the affected controller.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 22:25 AHCI driver problem on SB700/SB800 w/ Acer Ferrari One Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-13 12:37 ` AHCI driver problem on ICH (Re: AHCI driver problem on SB700/SB800 w/ Acer Ferrari One) Michael Leun
2011-05-13 16:56   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-13 17:39     ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-13 19:54       ` Michael Leun
2011-05-13 20:20         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-13 20:22       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-13 20:44         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-14  2:08           ` Robert Hancock
2011-05-14 10:18           ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-14 10:28             ` [PATCH v2.6.38-rc7] Revert "libata: ahci_start_engine compliant to AHCI spec" Tejun Heo
2011-05-14 17:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-14 18:49                 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-05-15  6:19               ` Jian Peng
2011-05-15  9:25                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-15 12:20                   ` Michael Leun
2011-05-16 17:02               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-18 19:23                 ` Jian Peng
2011-05-18 19:44                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-18 21:25                     ` Jian Peng
2011-05-19  0:14                       ` Jian Peng
2011-05-19 10:19                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-19 16:42                           ` Jian Peng
2011-05-19 21:32                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-19 21:57                               ` Jian Peng
2011-05-19 22:03                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-20 15:40                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-20 15:43                           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-05-20 17:02                             ` Jian Peng
2011-05-20 18:25                               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-22  2:00                                 ` Jian Peng
2011-05-23 12:13                               ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-24  1:04                                 ` Jian Peng
2011-05-20 18:21                             ` Jian Peng

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