Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

Jon Escombe
2005-08-24T21:46:37Z

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Jens Axboe wrote:

> Ok, I'll give you some hints to get you started... What you really want
>
>to do, is:
>
>- Insert a park request at the front of the queue
>- On completion callback on that request, freeze the block queue and
> schedule it for unfreeze after a given time
>
>

Am attaching a first attempt at a patch - for comments only - please
don't apply to a production system. I've not delved into the IDE code
before, so I've just been following my nose... In other words - It
appears to work for me - but I may be doing something crazy ;)

Having said that, I tested with a utility that repeatedly froze/thawed
hundreds of times while really hammering the disk with file copies, and
nothing oopsed or failed to checksum afterwards...

To do:

Move the /proc interface to sysfs. At the moment it's just a simple
'echo -n 1 > /proc/ide/hda/freeze' to freeze, and 0 to thaw.

Address Jens concerns about our userspace code falling over and leaving
the machine hung. I favour retaining a binary on/off interface (rather
than specifying a timeout up front), but having the IDE code auto-thaw
on a timer.. That way we can just keep writing 1's to it while we're
checking the accelerometer and wanting to keep it frozen, and if we
should die then it'll wake up by itself after a second or so...

Same again for libata (for T43 owners).

Regards,
Jon.

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diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc6.original/drivers/ide/ide-io.c linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6.original/drivers/ide/ide-io.c 2005-06-17 20:48:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/ide/ide-io.c 2005-08-24 20:56:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -1181,6 +1181,16 @@
}

/*
+ * Don't accept a request when the queue is stopped
+ * (unless we are resuming from suspend)
+ */
+ if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags) && !blk_pm_resume_request(rq)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: queue is stopped!\n", drive->name);
+ hwgroup->busy = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Sanity: don't accept a request that isn't a PM request
* if we are currently power managed. This is very important as
* blk_stop_queue() doesn't prevent the elv_next_request()
@@ -1661,6 +1671,9 @@
where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT;
rq->flags |= REQ_PREEMPT;
}
+ if (action == ide_next)
+ where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT;
+
__elv_add_request(drive->queue, rq, where, 0);
ide_do_request(hwgroup, IDE_NO_IRQ);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc6.original/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6.original/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c 2005-06-17 20:48:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c 2005-08-24 21:51:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -264,6 +264,122 @@
return -EINVAL;
}

+static int proc_ide_read_freeze
+ (char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count, int *eof, void *data)
+{
+ ide_drive_t *drive = (ide_drive_t *) data;
+ char *out = page;
+ int len;
+
+ proc_ide_settings_warn();
+
+ if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags))
+ out += sprintf(out, "%s: queue is stopped\n", drive->name);
+ else
+ out += sprintf(out, "%s: queue not stopped\n", drive->name);
+
+ len = out - page;
+ PROC_IDE_READ_RETURN(page,start,off,count,eof,len);
+}
+
+void ide_end_freeze_rq(struct request *rq)
+{
+ struct completion *waiting = rq->waiting;
+ u8 *argbuf = rq->buffer;
+
+ /* Spinlock is already acquired */
+ if (argbuf[3] == 0xc4) {
+ blk_stop_queue(rq->q);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide_end_freeze_rq(): Queue stopped...\n");
+ }
+ else
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide_end_freeze_rq(): Head not parked...\n");
+/*
+ blk_stop_queue(rq->q);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide_end_freeze_rq(): Queue stopped...\n");
+*/
+ complete(waiting);
+}
+
+static int proc_ide_write_freeze(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
+ unsigned long count, void *data)
+{
+ DECLARE_COMPLETION(wait);
+ unsigned long val, flags;
+ char *buf, *s;
+ struct request rq;
+ ide_drive_t *drive = (ide_drive_t *) data;
+ u8 args[7], *argbuf = args;
+
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EACCES;
+
+ proc_ide_settings_warn();
+
+ if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ s = buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+ if (!buf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count)) {
+ free_page((unsigned long)buf);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
+ buf[count] = '\0';
+ memset(&rq, 0, sizeof(rq));
+ memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
+
+ /* Ought to check we're the right sort of device - i.e. hard disk only */
+
+ /* STANDY IMMEDIATE COMMAND (spins down drive - more obvious for testing?)
+ argbuf[0] = 0xe0;
+ */
+
+ /* UNLOAD IMMEDIATE COMMAND */
+ argbuf[0] = 0xe1;
+ argbuf[1] = 0x44;
+ argbuf[3] = 0x4c;
+ argbuf[4] = 0x4e;
+ argbuf[5] = 0x55;
+
+ /* Ought to have some sanity checking around these values */
+ val = simple_strtoul(buf, &s, 10);
+ if (val) {
+ /* Check we're not already frozen */
+ if (!test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags)) {
+ /* Issue the park command & freeze */
+ ide_init_drive_cmd(&rq);
+
+ rq.flags = REQ_DRIVE_TASK;
+ rq.buffer = argbuf;
+ rq.waiting = &wait;
+ rq.end_io = ide_end_freeze_rq;
+
+ ide_do_drive_cmd(drive, &rq, ide_next);
+ wait_for_completion(&wait);
+ rq.waiting = NULL;
+ }
+ else
+ printk(KERN_ERR "proc_ide_write_freeze(): Queue already stopped...\n");
+ }
+ else {
+ /* Check we are frozen & unfreeze */
+ if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags)) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+ blk_start_queue(drive->queue);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "proc_ide_write_freeze(): Queue started...\n");
+ }
+ else
+ printk(KERN_ERR "proc_ide_write_freeze(): Queue not stopped...\n");
+ }
+ free_page((unsigned long)buf);
+ return count;
+}
+
int proc_ide_read_capacity
(char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count, int *eof, void *data)
{
@@ -390,6 +506,7 @@
{ "media", S_IFREG|S_IRUGO, proc_ide_read_media, NULL },
{ "model", S_IFREG|S_IRUGO, proc_ide_read_dmodel, NULL },
{ "settings", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,proc_ide_read_settings, proc_ide_write_settings },
+ { "freeze", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,proc_ide_read_freeze, proc_ide_write_freeze },
{ NULL, 0, NULL, NULL }
};