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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: ata_eh_link_autopsy:  Bug?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 16:12:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA043BE.2010009@teksavvy.com> (raw)

In libata-eh.c, the function ata_eh_link_autopsy() tries to decide
if an operation is worth retrying.

I notice that for MEDIA ERRORs, it always sits there for minutes
doing futile retries, when it's pretty obvious that the drive
is reporting an uncorrectable error.

Is this code correct?


                /* determine whether the command is worth retrying */
                if (qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_IO ||
                    (!(qc->err_mask & AC_ERR_INVALID) &&
                     qc->err_mask != AC_ERR_DEV))
                        qc->flags |= ATA_QCFLAG_RETRY;


I think this part may be incorrect:  qc->err_mask != AC_ERR_DEV
Shouldn't that test be this instead:  !(qc->err_mask & AC_ERR_DEV)  ??

The mask is just about never exactly equal to AC_ERR_DEV.
In the case of a media error, it is (AC_ERR_DEV | AC_ERR_MEDIA) at this point.

Tejun?


             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-01 20:12 Mark Lord [this message]
2012-05-01 20:27 ` ata_eh_link_autopsy: Bug? Mark Lord
2012-05-01 21:58   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-01 23:48     ` Mark Lord
2012-05-01 23:52       ` Mark Lord
2012-05-02  0:00       ` [PATCH] libata-eh don't waste time retrying media errors Mark Lord
2012-05-02  3:03         ` [PATCH] libata-eh don't waste time retrying media errors (v2) Mark Lord
2012-05-02 15:54           ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-02 19:10             ` Mark Lord
2012-05-02 19:22             ` [PATCH] libata-eh don't waste time retrying media errors (v3) Mark Lord
2012-05-02 19:33               ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-02 19:43                 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-02 19:46                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-04  2:25                     ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-04  3:04                       ` Mark Lord

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