* [PATCH] ata: libata-eh: Increase STANDBY IMMEDIATE timeout
@ 2026-07-24 7:39 Matt Vollrath
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From: Matt Vollrath @ 2026-07-24 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Damien Le Moal, Niklas Cassel
Cc: Martin K . Petersen, Hannes Reinecke, linux-ide, linux-kernel,
Matt Vollrath, stable
Correct a previous change (see Fixes) which reduced the standby timeout
from 30 to 5 seconds. Increase it to 15 seconds.
I was troubleshooting an error spotted during system suspend:
[ 1217.152867] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode
[ 1222.322948] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xe0)
[ 1222.324010] ata1.00: STANDBY IMMEDIATE failed (err_mask=0x4)
This drive is a Samsung 870 EVO SSD in good SMART standing, and I wasn't
aware of any reason it should be taking so long to standby. The issue is
intermittent, but I observed it sometimes taking 7 seconds to manually
standby. I assume this was interruption of background maintenance after
a power outage.
As a desktop user, I would prefer to wait the extra 2 seconds at suspend
to let the drive finish its business rather than drop the rails from
under it.
The change from 30 to 5 seconds was implicit when switching suspend
from START STOP UNIT to an internal command with no timeout table entry.
No reason was stated for the change.
Fixes: aa3998dbeb3a ("ata: libata-scsi: Disable scsi device manage_system_start_stop")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Vollrath <tactii@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-5-fable
---
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/libata.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index 05df7ea6954a..46947ed0c657 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ static const unsigned int ata_eh_flush_timeouts[] = {
UINT_MAX,
};
+static const unsigned int ata_eh_standby_timeouts[] = {
+ 15000, /* Some drives may be slow to standby */
+ /* but don't hold up a suspend too long waiting for them */
+ UINT_MAX,
+};
+
static const unsigned int ata_eh_other_timeouts[] = {
5000, /* same rationale as identify timeout */
10000, /* ditto */
@@ -147,6 +153,8 @@ ata_eh_cmd_timeout_table[ATA_EH_CMD_TIMEOUT_TABLE_SIZE] = {
.timeouts = ata_eh_other_timeouts, },
{ .commands = CMDS(ATA_CMD_FLUSH, ATA_CMD_FLUSH_EXT),
.timeouts = ata_eh_flush_timeouts },
+ { .commands = CMDS(ATA_CMD_STANDBYNOW1),
+ .timeouts = ata_eh_standby_timeouts },
{ .commands = CMDS(ATA_CMD_VERIFY),
.timeouts = ata_eh_reset_timeouts },
};
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 96e626d6a7ca..6c0d385b2cde 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ enum {
/* This should match the actual table size of
* ata_eh_cmd_timeout_table in libata-eh.c.
*/
- ATA_EH_CMD_TIMEOUT_TABLE_SIZE = 8,
+ ATA_EH_CMD_TIMEOUT_TABLE_SIZE = 9,
/* User visible DMA mask for DMA control. DO NOT renumber. */
ATA_DMA_MASK_ATA = (1 << 0), /* DMA on ATA Disk */
base-commit: 4d99a91574c420decab56cc880fad0dc15b8a7a3
--
2.43.0
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