Tejun, I'm able to break my system using this patch. I had a hunch this might be possible.. :) In short, if you issue a sleep command while the drive is already sleeping, it puts libata into an infinite loop resetting the port. I've illustrated the working test and the evil hunch below. The sleep command itself will need a short-circuit out of this logic in order to prevent this loop. Also, in the working case below the hddtemp command actually blocked until the drive was spun up before returning a valid temp. While testing, I was able to get hddtemp to trigger the drive wake-up when it was sleeping, but hddtemp then returned stating the drive was sleeping. Re-running hddtemp until the drive was fully spun up (another 5 seconds) kept returning that it was sleeping. I'll see if I can reproduce this reliably. Am I correct in assuming the process which triggers the wake-up should block? -Andrew Working case: # hddtemp /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 : 35 C # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: issuing sleep command # time hddtemp /dev/sdb ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 ata2.00: waking up from sleep ata2: soft resetting link ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA /dev/sdb: Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 : 34 C real 0m 10.89s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.00s # time hddtemp /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 : 34 C real 0m 0.26s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.00s Evil DoS case: # hddtemp /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 : 35 C # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: issuing sleep command # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 ata2.00: waking up from sleep ata2: soft resetting link ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 ata2.00: waking up from sleep ata2: soft resetting link ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete .... to infinity On 10/12/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ATA devices in SLEEP mode don't respond to any commands. SRST is > necessary to wake it up. Till now, when a command is issued to a > device in SLEEP mode, the command times out, which makes EH reset the > device and retry the command after that, causing a long delay. > > This patch makes libata track SLEEP state and issue SRST automatically > if a command is about to be issued to a device in SLEEP. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bruce Allen <ballen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 4 +++- > include/linux/ata.h | 1 + > include/linux/libata.h | 1 + > 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: work/include/linux/ata.h > =================================================================== > --- work.orig/include/linux/ata.h > +++ work/include/linux/ata.h > @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ enum { > ATA_CMD_VERIFY = 0x40, > ATA_CMD_VERIFY_EXT = 0x42, > ATA_CMD_STANDBYNOW1 = 0xE0, > + ATA_CMD_SLEEP = 0xE6, > ATA_CMD_IDLEIMMEDIATE = 0xE1, > ATA_CMD_INIT_DEV_PARAMS = 0x91, > ATA_CMD_READ_NATIVE_MAX = 0xF8, > Index: work/include/linux/libata.h > =================================================================== > --- work.orig/include/linux/libata.h > +++ work/include/linux/libata.h > @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum { > ATA_DFLAG_PIO = (1 << 12), /* device limited to PIO mode */ > ATA_DFLAG_NCQ_OFF = (1 << 13), /* device limited to non-NCQ mode */ > ATA_DFLAG_SPUNDOWN = (1 << 14), /* XXX: for spindown_compat */ > + ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING = (1 << 15), /* device is sleeping */ > ATA_DFLAG_INIT_MASK = (1 << 16) - 1, > > ATA_DFLAG_DETACH = (1 << 16), > Index: work/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > =================================================================== > --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ work/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -5553,6 +5553,10 @@ void __ata_qc_complete(struct ata_queued > case ATA_CMD_SET_MULTI: /* multi_count changed */ > eh_action |= ATA_EH_REVALIDATE; > break; > + > + case ATA_CMD_SLEEP: > + qc->dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING; > + break; > } > > if (unlikely(eh_action) && ap->ops->error_handler) { > @@ -5757,6 +5761,14 @@ void ata_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd > qc->flags &= ~ATA_QCFLAG_DMAMAP; > } > > + /* if device is sleeping, schedule softreset and abort the link */ > + if (unlikely(qc->dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING)) { > + link->eh_info.action |= ATA_EH_SOFTRESET; > + ata_ehi_push_desc(&link->eh_info, "waking up from sleep"); > + ata_link_abort(link); > + return; > + } > + > ap->ops->qc_prep(qc); > > qc->err_mask |= ap->ops->qc_issue(qc); > Index: work/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > =================================================================== > --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > +++ work/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c > @@ -2207,9 +2207,11 @@ int ata_eh_reset(struct ata_link *link, > ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) { > /* After the reset, the device state is PIO 0 > * and the controller state is undefined. > - * Record the mode. > + * Reset also wakes up drives from sleeping > + * mode. > */ > dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0; > + dev->flags &= ~ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING; > > if (ata_link_offline(link)) > continue; > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html