Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

Albert Lee
2007-11-04T04:03:18Z

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Daniel Drake wrote:
>
>>Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>>>><4>ata2.00: HSM violation: eh_analyze_tf: BUSY|DRQ
>>>><3>ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>>>><3>ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:0a:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data
>>>>10 in
>>>><4> res 58/00:02:00:0a:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM
>>>>violation)
>>>><3>ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
>>>><6>ata2: soft resetting link
>>>><6>ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
>>>><6>ata2: EH complete
>>>
>>>Does this patch fix the problem?
>>
>>That fixes it, thanks! There is no more ugly error in dmesg, the test
>>prog doesn't print any sense data, and brasero works OK too. However,
>>these messages appear in the kernel log every time I run the test app
>>(or when brasero does its thing):
>>
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data
>><4>ata2.00: 6 bytes trailing data
>
>
> Yeah, that's expected. What's going on here is that your drive sends
> full mode sense data (76bytes) regardless of allocation size in CDB but
> it does honor transfer chunk set in the PACKET TF, which is set to the
> same value as allocation size by Alan's patch. So, now the drive sends
> the 76 bytes in 8 chunks. The first chunk is transferred into the sg
> buffer and the following chunks are thrown away.
>
> Previously, transfer chunk was set to 8k, so the drive claims to
> transfer 76 bytes from the buegging, libata transfers leading 10 bytes
> got transferred into the user buffer and throws away what's remaining.
> The change caused problem because libata HSM always switches to
> HSM_ST_LAST (command sequence completion) after filling the command
> buffer completely. So, throwing away is activated iff the extra data to
> throw away is transfered together with the last chunk of useful data.
>
> With the chunk size reduced to allocation size, the initial chunk fills
> the data buffer completely and all the extra bytes are transfered in
> separate chunks. However, libata HSM expects command sequence to
> complete after the initial chunk but the drive asserts DRQ for the next
> chunk on the following interrupt, so HSM violation is triggered.
>
> The patch modifies HSM such that it keeps throwing away extra data as
> long as the drive asserts DRQ which is how IDE driver does it.
>

>From past experience, some dead ATAPI devices stuck in DRQ=1. We should
take care of such situation, otherwise the HSM might get into an infinite
loop of waiting for the dead ATAPI device to say DRQ=0 and discarding
endless "trailing data".

Maybe we could set a limit here. If the ATAPI device keeps DRQ=1 and
exceeds the limit, we consider it as HSM violation and have EH handle it.

--
albert