Re: libata acpi issue on gateway laptop

Re: libata acpi issue on gateway laptop

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 09/06/2010 09:51 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:46:10PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> These are debug/info messages.  Just ignore them.
>>
> 
> The user claims they are causing long delays waiting for the timeouts to
> occur that go away if booting with noacpi...

Hmm... I don't see any timeout in the log you posted.  Ah, okay, the
interesting part is in the full log, the ACPI GTF sequence itself is
finishing fine but the next NCQ READ command is timing out.  The BIOS
is enabling non-zero buffer offsets and DMA setup FIS auto-activate.
It's likely that the controller isn't being configured correctly
leading to mismatch between the behavior expected by the controller
and the actual drive behavior.  Hmm.... I'll look further into it
tomorrow.  For the record, can you please attach the full log, lspci
-nn output and dmidecode output here?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

Re: libata acpi issue on gateway laptop

[Kyle McMartin]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:05:27PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hmm... I don't see any timeout in the log you posted.  Ah, okay, the
> interesting part is in the full log, the ACPI GTF sequence itself is
> finishing fine but the next NCQ READ command is timing out.  The BIOS
> is enabling non-zero buffer offsets and DMA setup FIS auto-activate.
> It's likely that the controller isn't being configured correctly
> leading to mismatch between the behavior expected by the controller
> and the actual drive behavior.  Hmm.... I'll look further into it
> tomorrow.  For the record, can you please attach the full log, lspci
> -nn output and dmidecode output here?
> 

Thanks Tejun, I've requested this from the original reporter, and I'll
attach it here when I hear back.

(Oops, sorry for fudging linux-ide->linux-ata, thanks for fixing that.)

regards, Kyle