Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Thomas Renninger wrote:
>>>> Any chances of changing things
>>>> so that we inspect/snoop all tasks sent to the device, and filter them
>>>> out, or react to them accordingly?
>>> No, we can't unless we snoop ACPI method execution and detect accesses
>>> to IO ports or iomem regions.  It's not going through any driver.  This
>>> is a gross mess.
>> I don't mean fixing the stuff clowns like Toshiba did.  The correct fix for
>> that is to blacklist the hell out of that crap and patch their DSDT into
>> something remotely sane.
>>
>> I do mean snooping the ACPI methods that *return* a taskset to send to the
>> driver, and we send that taskset ourselves in libata and libpata(?).
> 
> I haven't read the whole thread in every detail, but this sounds like a
> very intrusive, overdosed workaround.
> 
> Are the DSDT/SSDTs already lying around somewhere (collecting them in a
> bug assigned to ACPI component should be a good idea)?
> Could someone give me a pointer where this happens (best in code and
> DSDT).

The toshiba problem is already taken care of.  It's the issue that we
talked over beer.  Let me look up the bug number...  It's 7780.

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7780

This was worked around by blacklisting the systems using dmi.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun