Re: 2.6.23-mm1

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> On 10/12/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:31:42 +0200 "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen smartd[6091]: Device: /dev/sdc, not found in
> > > smartd database.
> > hm.
> >
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000] WARNING: at
> > > drivers/ata/libata-core.c:5752 ata_qc_issue()
> > Let's cc linux-ide.
> >
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000]
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000] Call Trace:
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000]  [<ffffffff804442ef>]
> > > ata_qc_issue+0x47f/0x540
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000]  [<ffffffff80432e60>] scsi_done+0x0/0x20
> > > Oct 12 10:23:03 treogen [  105.990000]  [<ffffffff80449c80>]
> > > ata_scsi_flush_xlat+0x0/0x30

> Oct 13 07:46:48 treogen [   99.850000]
> Oct 13 07:46:48 treogen [   99.850000] ata3: EH in SWNCQ
> mode,QC:qc_active 0x3 sactive 0x1
> Oct 13 07:46:48 treogen [   99.850000] ata3: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1
> defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x0

The WARNING indicates that there is a SWNCQ bug in sata_nv.  Given that 
the problem appears when SYNCHRONIZE CACHE is being issued, I would 
guess that sata_nv is not properly handling non-queued commands.

NVIDIA CC'd.

This is a patch from libata-dev.git#nv-swncq (via #ALL).

	Jeff




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