There's no reason to check whether to use DMA or not for no data commands. Don't do it. While at it, make local variable using_pio in atapi_xlat() set iff ATAPI_PROT_PIO is going to be used and rename ata_check_atapi_dma() to atapi_check_dma() for consistency. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- It's late in the -rc cycle but these two patches are to work around specific hardware and low risk. Thanks. drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 16 +++++++--------- drivers/ata/libata.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: work/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ work/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -2343,8 +2343,8 @@ static unsigned int atapi_xlat(struct at { struct scsi_cmnd *scmd = qc->scsicmd; struct ata_device *dev = qc->dev; - int using_pio = (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_PIO); int nodata = (scmd->sc_data_direction == DMA_NONE); + int using_pio = !nodata && (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_PIO); unsigned int nbytes; memset(qc->cdb, 0, dev->cdb_len); @@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ static unsigned int atapi_xlat(struct at ata_qc_set_pc_nbytes(qc); /* check whether ATAPI DMA is safe */ - if (!using_pio && ata_check_atapi_dma(qc)) + if (!nodata && !using_pio && atapi_check_dma(qc)) using_pio = 1; /* Some controller variants snoop this value for Packet @@ -2402,13 +2402,11 @@ static unsigned int atapi_xlat(struct at qc->tf.lbam = (nbytes & 0xFF); qc->tf.lbah = (nbytes >> 8); - if (using_pio || nodata) { - /* no data, or PIO data xfer */ - if (nodata) - qc->tf.protocol = ATAPI_PROT_NODATA; - else - qc->tf.protocol = ATAPI_PROT_PIO; - } else { + if (nodata) + qc->tf.protocol = ATAPI_PROT_NODATA; + else if (using_pio) + qc->tf.protocol = ATAPI_PROT_PIO; + else { /* DMA data xfer */ qc->tf.protocol = ATAPI_PROT_DMA; qc->tf.feature |= ATAPI_PKT_DMA; Index: work/drivers/ata/libata-core.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ work/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -4297,7 +4297,7 @@ void ata_sg_clean(struct ata_queued_cmd } /** - * ata_check_atapi_dma - Check whether ATAPI DMA can be supported + * atapi_check_dma - Check whether ATAPI DMA can be supported * @qc: Metadata associated with taskfile to check * * Allow low-level driver to filter ATA PACKET commands, returning @@ -4310,7 +4310,7 @@ void ata_sg_clean(struct ata_queued_cmd * RETURNS: 0 when ATAPI DMA can be used * nonzero otherwise */ -int ata_check_atapi_dma(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) +int atapi_check_dma(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) { struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap; Index: work/drivers/ata/libata.h =================================================================== --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata.h +++ work/drivers/ata/libata.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ extern void ata_sg_clean(struct ata_queu extern void ata_qc_free(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); extern void ata_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); extern void __ata_qc_complete(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); -extern int ata_check_atapi_dma(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); +extern int atapi_check_dma(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); extern void swap_buf_le16(u16 *buf, unsigned int buf_words); extern void ata_dev_init(struct ata_device *dev); extern void ata_link_init(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_link *link, int pmp); -- 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