Attached patch enables my x86 machine to recognize and talk to a "Native 4K" SATA device. When I started working on this, I didn't know Matthew Wilcox had posted a similar patch 2 years ago: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/ata.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ata-large-sectors Gwendal Grignou pointed me at the the above code and small portions of this patch include Matthew's work. That's why Mathew is first on the "Signed-off-by:". I've NOT included his use of a bitmap to determine 512 vs Native for ATA command block size - just used a simple table. And bugs are almost certainly mine. Lastly, the patch has been tested with a native 4K 'Engineering Sample' drive provided by Hitachi GST. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx> ----- Gwendal's review of this patch had him concerned about access to "dev->sdev->sector_size" may have risks (e.g. sdev goes away before dev does). I didn't like adding additional fields to ata_dev that duplicate what scsi is doing and this seems to be working so far. But since I don't know how dev->sdev is protected/syncronized (despite how libata and scsi are joined at the hip), I hope someone else can comment on if my usage of dev->sdev->sector_size is a problem and why. I believe use of ata_id_logical_per_physical_sectors() was wrong. I've replaced it with ata_id_log2_per_physical_sector() and cleaned up how block size word and alignment are referenced. It's alot easier to read where those functions are used now. Here is the kernel output from hotplugging the SATA drive on my machine (using Marvell 7042 controller): [ 2468.301218] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4010000 action 0xe frozen [ 2468.301225] ata4: edma_err_cause=00000010 pp_flags=00000000, dev connect [ 2468.301240] ata4: SError: { PHYRdyChg DevExch } [ 2468.301257] ata4: hard resetting link [ 2471.701117] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2471.740390] ata4.00: HPA detected: current 9770670, native 78165360 [ 2471.740399] ata4.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTSxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyy, max UDMA/100 [ 2471.740402] ata4.00: 9770670 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 2471.764465] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 2471.764501] ata4: EH complete [ 2471.764988] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HTSxxxxxxxxxxxx PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2471.782914] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 9770670 4096-byte logical blocks: (40.0 GB/37.2 GiB) [ 2471.787093] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off [ 2471.787120] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 2471.788768] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2471.792293] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 9770670 4096-byte logical blocks: (40.0 GB/37.2 GiB) [ 2471.792834] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 2471.799370] sdd: unknown partition table [ 2471.845582] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 9770670 4096-byte logical blocks: (40.0 GB/37.2 GiB) [ 2471.853763] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk I was able to dd to/from the device and pull SMART data (not shown and probably not able to share.) If someone has "Advanced Format Developers Kit" SATA drives from idema.org, I'd appreciate any test reports. thanks grant [ patch NOT inlined because gmail will word-wrap and make a mess of it. Please use attached filed.]
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