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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata fails to recover from HSM violation involving DRQ status
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:35:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4633BE04.2030201@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428222502.26fc9bbc@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> I am reluctant to do anything about this.
> 
> This one does need dealing with. It happens in the real world and the old
> IDE paths for this do get triggered and used now and then (we know this
> because bugs in them were found). All it takes is a device and a
> controller disagreeing about the length of a data transfer to get in a
> mess. In theory resetting the bus should get you out of this, I'm
> suprised we didn't get out that way.
..
> SG_IO and other userspace interfaces can mean we issue a command that
> ends up causing variants of this kind of confusion.

That last one doesn't really worry me -- it has to be deliberately
done by the sysadmin.

But the history of real-world cases are definitely of concern,
especially since it's quite likely a rather simple fix.

I think failed WRITE_DMA requests (IDNF or ECC faults) were one source.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 20:15 libata fails to recover from HSM violation involving DRQ status Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:18 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 20:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 20:44   ` Mark Lord
2007-04-28 20:50     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 21:25   ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 21:35     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-28 21:38     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 21:41       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29  3:17         ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29  3:46           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29  7:45             ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29  3:51           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 11:56             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 12:59               ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 13:13                 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 16:42                   ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 16:47                     ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 18:49                       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 19:05                         ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  0:59                           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 19:07                         ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  0:54                           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-30  3:42                             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-30  3:58                               ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-30 17:47                             ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01  0:23                               ` Mark Lord
2007-05-01  2:47                                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-01 13:00                       ` Mark Lord
2007-05-11  3:33                         ` Mark Lord
2007-05-11  3:35                           ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 12:07           ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29 16:36             ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 23:56       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 22:09 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-29  3:04   ` Tejun Heo

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