Let -EAGAIN from EH device handling routines trigger EH retry without consuming its tries count. This will be used to implement link SPD horkage which requires hardreset to adjust SPD without affecting other EH decisions. As it bypasses the forward progress guarantee provided by the tries count, the requester is responsible for ensuring forward progress. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c index caa1e9f..ce2ef04 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c @@ -3035,7 +3035,11 @@ static int ata_eh_handle_dev_fail(struct ata_device *dev, int err) { struct ata_eh_context *ehc = &dev->link->eh_context; - ehc->tries[dev->devno]--; + /* -EAGAIN from EH routine indicates retry without prejudice. + * The requester is responsible for ensuring forward progress. + */ + if (err != -EAGAIN) + ehc->tries[dev->devno]--; switch (err) { case -ENODEV: -- 1.6.0.2 -- 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