Tejun Heo wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > >>Tejun Heo wrote: >> >>>><4>ata2.00: HSM violation: eh_analyze_tf: BUSY|DRQ >>>><3>ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen >>>><3>ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:0a:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data >>>>10 in >>>><4> res 58/00:02:00:0a:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM >>>>violation) >>>><3>ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ } >>>><6>ata2: soft resetting link >>>><6>ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 >>>><6>ata2: EH complete >>> >>>Does this patch fix the problem? >> >>That fixes it, thanks! There is no more ugly error in dmesg, the test >>prog doesn't print any sense data, and brasero works OK too. However, >>these messages appear in the kernel log every time I run the test app >>(or when brasero does its thing): >> >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 10 bytes trailing data >><4>ata2.00: 6 bytes trailing data > > > Yeah, that's expected. What's going on here is that your drive sends > full mode sense data (76bytes) regardless of allocation size in CDB but > it does honor transfer chunk set in the PACKET TF, which is set to the > same value as allocation size by Alan's patch. So, now the drive sends > the 76 bytes in 8 chunks. The first chunk is transferred into the sg > buffer and the following chunks are thrown away. > > Previously, transfer chunk was set to 8k, so the drive claims to > transfer 76 bytes from the buegging, libata transfers leading 10 bytes > got transferred into the user buffer and throws away what's remaining. > The change caused problem because libata HSM always switches to > HSM_ST_LAST (command sequence completion) after filling the command > buffer completely. So, throwing away is activated iff the extra data to > throw away is transfered together with the last chunk of useful data. > > With the chunk size reduced to allocation size, the initial chunk fills > the data buffer completely and all the extra bytes are transfered in > separate chunks. However, libata HSM expects command sequence to > complete after the initial chunk but the drive asserts DRQ for the next > chunk on the following interrupt, so HSM violation is triggered. > > The patch modifies HSM such that it keeps throwing away extra data as > long as the drive asserts DRQ which is how IDE driver does it. > >From past experience, some dead ATAPI devices stuck in DRQ=1. We should take care of such situation, otherwise the HSM might get into an infinite loop of waiting for the dead ATAPI device to say DRQ=0 and discarding endless "trailing data". Maybe we could set a limit here. If the ATAPI device keeps DRQ=1 and exceeds the limit, we consider it as HSM violation and have EH handle it. -- albert - 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