Re: libata reset-seq merge broke sata_sil on sh

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On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:08:59PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Paul Mundt wrote:
> > The detection is simply flaky after that point, however before the
> > current master it never hit the 35 second point (and thus never implied
> > that the link was down). I'll double check the bisect log to see if there
> > was anything beyond that that may have caused it.
> > 
> > The -ENODEV at least implies that the SRST fails, so at least that's a
> > starting point.
> 
> If prereset() fails to get the initial DRDY before 10secs, it assumes
> something went wrong and escalates to hardreset.  sil family of
> controllers report 0xff status while the link is broken and it seems
> that your particular drive needs more than the current 150ms to recover
> phy link.  It probably went unnoticed till now because the device was
> never hardreset before.  If the diagnosis is correct, increasing the
> delay in hardreset should fix the problem.  Well, let's see.  :-)
> 
Bumping the hardreset delay up does indeed fix it, I've had to bump it up
to 1200 before it started working (at 600 it still fails):

[    0.967379] scsi0 : sata_sil
[    0.970425] scsi1 : sata_sil
[    0.973298] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xfd000280 ctl 0xfd00028a bmdma 0xfd000200 irq 0
[    0.981331] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xfd0002c0 ctl 0xfd0002ca bmdma 0xfd000208 irq 0
[    1.299353] ata1: device not ready (errno=-19), forcing hardreset
[    2.817893] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[    2.826284] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 39070080, hpa_sectors = 39070080
[    2.831052] ata1.00: ATA-5: HHD424020F7SV00, 00MLA0A5, max UDMA/100
[    2.837548] ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 0: LBA
[    2.842702] ata1.00: applying bridge limits
[    2.854162] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 39070080, hpa_sectors = 39070080
[    2.858938] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    3.172602] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[    3.175736] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HHD424020F7SV00  00ML PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

I'm not sure if it matters or not, but this is an iVDR drive, so that
might also have additional implications.

--

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 4595d1f..4dad3fd 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -3518,7 +3518,7 @@ int sata_std_hardreset(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int *class,
 	}
 
 	/* wait a while before checking status, see SRST for more info */
-	msleep(150);
+	msleep(1200);
 
 	rc = ata_wait_ready(ap, deadline);
 	/* link occupied, -ENODEV too is an error */
-
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