Calling ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev) on a device/controller which got already removed, locks the system hard. Reproducibly on an X60 attached to a dock station containing a cdrom device with doing $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/undock && echo 123 > /dev/sr0 This calls ata_eh_reset(...) which in turn tries to force PIO mode 0. But the device is already gone. Bisecting revealed the following commit as culprit: commit cdeab1140799f09c5f728a5ff85e0bdfa5679cd2 Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 29 16:41:09 2007 +0900 libata: relocate forcing PIO0 on reset Forcing PIO0 on reset was done inside ata_bus_softreset(), which is a bit out of place as it should be applied to all resets - hard, soft and implementation which don't use ata_bus_softreset(). Relocate it such that... * For new EH, it's done in ata_eh_reset() before calling prereset. * For old EH, it's done before calling ap->ops->phy_reset() in ata_bus_probe(). This makes PIO0 forced after all resets. Another difference is that reset itself is done after PIO0 is forced. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> ATTENTION! The following patch solves the problem on my system, but please be aware that I don't really know what I'm doing because I don't have the big picture. There's surely a better way to check if the device/controller is still functional than calling ata_link_{online,offline}. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c index 4e31071..d6a7c57 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c @@ -2131,23 +2131,25 @@ int ata_eh_reset(struct ata_link *link, int classify, ata_eh_about_to_do(link, NULL, ehc->i.action & ATA_EH_RESET_MASK); - ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) { - /* If we issue an SRST then an ATA drive (not ATAPI) - * may change configuration and be in PIO0 timing. If - * we do a hard reset (or are coming from power on) - * this is true for ATA or ATAPI. Until we've set a - * suitable controller mode we should not touch the - * bus as we may be talking too fast. - */ - dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0; + if (ata_link_online(link) != ata_link_offline(link)) { + ata_link_for_each_dev(dev, link) { + /* If we issue an SRST then an ATA drive (not ATAPI) + * may change configuration and be in PIO0 timing. If + * we do a hard reset (or are coming from power on) + * this is true for ATA or ATAPI. Until we've set a + * suitable controller mode we should not touch the + * bus as we may be talking too fast. + */ + dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0; - /* If the controller has a pio mode setup function - * then use it to set the chipset to rights. Don't - * touch the DMA setup as that will be dealt with when - * configuring devices. - */ - if (ap->ops->set_piomode) - ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev); + /* If the controller has a pio mode setup function + * then use it to set the chipset to rights. Don't + * touch the DMA setup as that will be dealt with when + * configuring devices. + */ + if (ap->ops->set_piomode) + ap->ops->set_piomode(ap, dev); + } } /* Determine which reset to use and record in ehc->i.action. - 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