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<title>libata: unlock HPA if device shrunk</title>
<updated>2010-04-06T14:55:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-05T01:33:13+00:00</published>
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Some BIOSes don't configure HPA during boot but do so while resuming.
This causes harddrives to shrink during resume making libata detach
and reattach them.  This can be worked around by unlocking HPA if old
size equals native size.

Add ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA so that HPA unlocking can be controlled
per-device and update ata_dev_revalidate() such that it sets
ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA and fails with -EIO when the above condition is
detected.

This patch fixes the following bug.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15396

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleksandr Yermolenko &lt;yaa.bta@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Some BIOSes don't configure HPA during boot but do so while resuming.
This causes harddrives to shrink during resume making libata detach
and reattach them.  This can be worked around by unlocking HPA if old
size equals native size.

Add ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA so that HPA unlocking can be controlled
per-device and update ata_dev_revalidate() such that it sets
ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA and fails with -EIO when the above condition is
detected.

This patch fixes the following bug.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15396

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleksandr Yermolenko &lt;yaa.bta@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: disable NCQ on Crucial C300 SSD</title>
<updated>2010-04-06T14:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-05T01:51:26+00:00</published>
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Crucial said,

  Thank you for contacting us. We know that with our M225 line of SSDs
  you sometimes need to disable NCQ (native command queuing) to avoid
  just the type of errors you're seeing. Our recommendation for the
  M225 is to add libata.force=noncq to your Linux kernel boot options,
  under the kernel ATA library option.

  I have sent your feedback to the engineers working on the C300, and
  asked them to please pass it on to the firmware team. I have been
  notified that they are in the process of testing and finalizing a
  new firmware version, that you can expect to see released around the
  end of April. We’ll keep you posted as to when it will be available
  for download.

So, turn off NCQ on the drive w/ the current firmware revision.

Reported in the following bug.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15573

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: lethalwp@scarlet.be
Reported-by: Luke Macken &lt;lmacken@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Crucial said,

  Thank you for contacting us. We know that with our M225 line of SSDs
  you sometimes need to disable NCQ (native command queuing) to avoid
  just the type of errors you're seeing. Our recommendation for the
  M225 is to add libata.force=noncq to your Linux kernel boot options,
  under the kernel ATA library option.

  I have sent your feedback to the engineers working on the C300, and
  asked them to please pass it on to the firmware team. I have been
  notified that they are in the process of testing and finalizing a
  new firmware version, that you can expect to see released around the
  end of April. We’ll keep you posted as to when it will be available
  for download.

So, turn off NCQ on the drive w/ the current firmware revision.

Reported in the following bug.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15573

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: lethalwp@scarlet.be
Reported-by: Luke Macken &lt;lmacken@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: fix CFA handling in ide_timing_compute()</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T19:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-18T17:13:57+00:00</published>
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Use standard cycle timing for CFA PIO5 and PIO6 modes.

Based on commit 74638c8 for IDE subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Use standard cycle timing for CFA PIO5 and PIO6 modes.

Based on commit 74638c8 for IDE subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix misspelling of "should" and "shouldn't" in comments.</title>
<updated>2010-02-05T11:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Buchbinder</name>
<email>adam.buchbinder@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T20:40:42+00:00</published>
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Some comments misspell "should" or "shouldn't"; this fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Some comments misspell "should" or "shouldn't"; this fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: retry link resume if necessary</title>
<updated>2010-01-12T19:34:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-11T02:14:44+00:00</published>
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Interestingly, when SIDPR is used in ata_piix, writes to DET in
SControl sometimes get ignored leading to detection failure.  Update
sata_link_resume() such that it reads back SControl after clearing DET
and retry if it's not clear.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: fengxiangjun &lt;fengxiangjun@neusoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jim Faulkner &lt;jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Interestingly, when SIDPR is used in ata_piix, writes to DET in
SControl sometimes get ignored leading to detection failure.  Update
sata_link_resume() such that it reads back SControl after clearing DET
and retry if it's not clear.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: fengxiangjun &lt;fengxiangjun@neusoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jim Faulkner &lt;jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: add comment documenting PIO latency issues on UP</title>
<updated>2009-12-03T19:36:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-26T16:11:16+00:00</published>
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Based on:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0908.2/01420.html

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Based on:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0908.2/01420.html

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/ata/libata: Move dereference after NULL test</title>
<updated>2009-11-03T19:26:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>julia@diku.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-17T06:41:47+00:00</published>
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In each case, if the NULL test on qc is needed, then the derefernce
should be after the NULL test.

A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as
follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@

* x-&gt;fld
  ... when != \(x = E\|&amp;x\)
* x == NULL
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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In each case, if the NULL test on qc is needed, then the derefernce
should be after the NULL test.

A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as
follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@

* x-&gt;fld
  ... when != \(x = E\|&amp;x\)
* x == NULL
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libata: fix internal command failure handling</title>
<updated>2009-10-16T10:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-16T04:00:51+00:00</published>
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When an internal command fails, it should be failed directly without
invoking EH.  In the original implemetation, this was accomplished by
letting internal command bypass failure handling in ata_qc_complete().
However, later changes added post-successful-completion handling to
that code path and the success path is no longer adequate as internal
command failure path.  One of the visible problems is that internal
command failure due to timeout or other freeze conditions would
spuriously trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() in the success path.

This patch updates failure path such that internal command failure
handling is contained there.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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When an internal command fails, it should be failed directly without
invoking EH.  In the original implemetation, this was accomplished by
letting internal command bypass failure handling in ata_qc_complete().
However, later changes added post-successful-completion handling to
that code path and the success path is no longer adequate as internal
command failure path.  One of the visible problems is that internal
command failure due to timeout or other freeze conditions would
spuriously trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() in the success path.

This patch updates failure path such that internal command failure
handling is contained there.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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