From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>, Linux-ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: faulty disk testing
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:45:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FD8D95.4020801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FD8682.1070305@pobox.com>
Mark Lord wrote:
> ata_port_wait_eh
>
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> ..
>> For Ric's case, I'm waiting for more info. If EH is looping forever
>> without reporting to upper layer, it definitely needs fixing, but I
>> don't think that's the case.
>
> What happens with the loop in ata_port_wait_eh() for a drive
> which never succeeds in the reset/reinit phase?
Reset/reinit phases don't repeat endlessly. It's limited by
ATA_EH_RESET_TRIES and ATA_EH_DEV_TRIES. When a device uses up all its
chances, it gets ata_dev_disable()'d and offlined.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-05 1:30 faulty disk testing Ric Wheeler
2006-09-05 11:57 ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-05 12:46 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-09-05 13:48 ` Mark Lord
2006-09-05 14:08 ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-05 14:15 ` Mark Lord
2006-09-05 14:45 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-09-05 14:19 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-09-05 14:56 ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-05 15:48 ` Ric Wheeler
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