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<title>[PATCH] libata: handle 0xff status properly</title>
<updated>2007-01-10T19:05:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2006-12-13T03:58:48+00:00</published>
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libata waits for !BSY even when the status register reports 0xff.
This causes long boot delays when D8 isn't pulled down properly.  This
patch does the followings.

* don't wait if status register is 0xff in all wait functions

* make ata_busy_sleep() return 0 on success and -errno on failure.
  -ENODEV is returned on 0xff status and -EBUSY on other failures.

* make ata_bus_softreset() succeed on 0xff status.  0xff status is not
  reset failure.  It indicates no device.  This removes unnecessary
  retries on such ports.  Note that the code change assumes unoccupied
  port reporting 0xff status does not produce valid device signature.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Jin &lt;lkmaillist@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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libata waits for !BSY even when the status register reports 0xff.
This causes long boot delays when D8 isn't pulled down properly.  This
patch does the followings.

* don't wait if status register is 0xff in all wait functions

* make ata_busy_sleep() return 0 on success and -errno on failure.
  -ENODEV is returned on 0xff status and -EBUSY on other failures.

* make ata_bus_softreset() succeed on 0xff status.  0xff status is not
  reset failure.  It indicates no device.  This removes unnecessary
  retries on such ports.  Note that the code change assumes unoccupied
  port reporting 0xff status does not produce valid device signature.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Jin &lt;lkmaillist@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] libata: unexport ata_dev_revalidate()</title>
<updated>2006-11-01T01:40:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-28T02:08:42+00:00</published>
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ata_dev_revalidate() isn't used outside of libata core.  Unexport it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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ata_dev_revalidate() isn't used outside of libata core.  Unexport it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] libata: typo fix</title>
<updated>2006-10-21T19:18:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-19T05:44:53+00:00</published>
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Typo fix in commment.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Typo fix in commment.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers</title>
<updated>2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-05T13:55:46+00:00</published>
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] libata: turn off NCQ if queue depth is adjusted to 1</title>
<updated>2006-09-30T11:39:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-30T10:45:00+00:00</published>
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Turn off NCQ if queue depth is adjusted to 1.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Turn off NCQ if queue depth is adjusted to 1.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes to constants</title>
<updated>2006-09-30T11:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-30T10:44:39+00:00</published>
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Cosmetic changes to ATA_DFLAG_* constants for soon-to-follow NCQ-off
patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Cosmetic changes to ATA_DFLAG_* constants for soon-to-follow NCQ-off
patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[libata] Use new PCI_VDEVICE() macro to dramatically shorten ID lists</title>
<updated>2006-09-28T02:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-28T02:20:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<title>[libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers</title>
<updated>2006-09-25T19:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-25T19:33:09+00:00</published>
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They all contain the same thing.  Instead, have a single generic one in
include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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They all contain the same thing.  Instead, have a single generic one in
include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] libata: improve handling of diagostic fail (and hardware that misreports it)</title>
<updated>2006-09-19T05:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-12T15:55:12+00:00</published>
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Our ATA probe code checks that a device is not reporting a diagnostic
failure during start up. Unfortunately at least one device seems to like
doing this - the Gigabyte iRAM.

This is only done for the master right now (which is fine for the iRAM
as it is SATA), as with PATA some combinations of ATAPI device seem to
fool the check into seeing a drive that isn't there if it is applied to
the slave.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Our ATA probe code checks that a device is not reporting a diagnostic
failure during start up. Unfortunately at least one device seems to like
doing this - the Gigabyte iRAM.

This is only done for the master right now (which is fine for the iRAM
as it is SATA), as with PATA some combinations of ATAPI device seem to
fool the check into seeing a drive that isn't there if it is applied to
the slave.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] libata: fix non-uniform ports handling</title>
<updated>2006-09-19T04:29:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-15T18:04:15+00:00</published>
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Non-uniform ports handling got broken while updating libata to handle
those in the same host.  Only separate irq for the non-uniform
secondary port was implemented while all other fields (host flags,
transfer mode...) of the secondary port simply shared those of the
first.

For ata_piix combined mode, which ATM is the only user of non-uniform
ports, this causes the secondary port assume the wrong type.  This can
cause PATA port to use SATA ops, which results in bogus check on PCS
and detection failure.

This patch adds ata_probe_ent-&gt;pinfo2 which points to optional
port_info for the secondary port.  For the time being, this seems to
be the simplest solution.  This workaround will be removed together
with ata_probe_ent itself after init model is updated to allow more
flexibility.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nelson A. de Oliveira &lt;naoliv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Non-uniform ports handling got broken while updating libata to handle
those in the same host.  Only separate irq for the non-uniform
secondary port was implemented while all other fields (host flags,
transfer mode...) of the secondary port simply shared those of the
first.

For ata_piix combined mode, which ATM is the only user of non-uniform
ports, this causes the secondary port assume the wrong type.  This can
cause PATA port to use SATA ops, which results in bogus check on PCS
and detection failure.

This patch adds ata_probe_ent-&gt;pinfo2 which points to optional
port_info for the secondary port.  For the time being, this seems to
be the simplest solution.  This workaround will be removed together
with ata_probe_ent itself after init model is updated to allow more
flexibility.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nelson A. de Oliveira &lt;naoliv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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