Re: Intermittent SATA failures ("link offline, clearing class 1 to NONE")

[Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Can you please apply the attached patch and post the good and bad boot
logs?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index dc72690..c501e1e 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -3731,7 +3731,7 @@ int sata_link_debounce(struct ata_link *link, const unsigned long *params,
 	unsigned long interval = params[0];
 	unsigned long duration = params[1];
 	unsigned long last_jiffies, t;
-	u32 last, cur;
+	u32 last, cur, xxx;
 	int rc;
 
 	t = ata_deadline(jiffies, params[2]);
@@ -3740,7 +3740,9 @@ int sata_link_debounce(struct ata_link *link, const unsigned long *params,
 
 	if ((rc = sata_scr_read(link, SCR_STATUS, &cur)))
 		return rc;
+	xxx = cur;
 	cur &= 0xf;
+	ata_link_printk(link, KERN_INFO, "XXX debounce start, SStatus=%x\n", xxx);
 
 	last = cur;
 	last_jiffies = jiffies;
@@ -3749,6 +3751,7 @@ int sata_link_debounce(struct ata_link *link, const unsigned long *params,
 		msleep(interval);
 		if ((rc = sata_scr_read(link, SCR_STATUS, &cur)))
 			return rc;
+		xxx = cur;
 		cur &= 0xf;
 
 		/* DET stable? */
@@ -3756,8 +3759,12 @@ int sata_link_debounce(struct ata_link *link, const unsigned long *params,
 			if (cur == 1 && time_before(jiffies, deadline))
 				continue;
 			if (time_after(jiffies,
-				       ata_deadline(last_jiffies, duration)))
+				       ata_deadline(last_jiffies, duration))) {
+				ata_link_printk(link, KERN_INFO,
+						"XXX debounce done, SStatus=%x, DET stable for %u msecs\n",
+						xxx, jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - last_jiffies));
 				return 0;
+			}
 			continue;
 		}