On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 14:43 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 03 Feb 2012, Lin Ming wrote: > > > I didn't try to revert that commit on top of HEAD. > > > > Please revert that commit to test. > > That helps us to make sure we find the exact bad commit. > > Confirmed. Reverted 7faa33da9b7 on top of 6c073a7ee250 made > the boot delay go away. dmesg from this boot attached. Dig into the code, but I can't find where the problem is. Anyway, does below DEBUG patch help? Let's always stop the engine during hard reset. diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci.c b/drivers/ata/libahci.c index a72bfd0..8fef702 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c @@ -578,10 +578,6 @@ int ahci_stop_engine(struct ata_port *ap) tmp = readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD); - /* check if the HBA is idle */ - if ((tmp & (PORT_CMD_START | PORT_CMD_LIST_ON)) == 0) - return 0; - /* setting HBA to idle */ tmp &= ~PORT_CMD_START; writel(tmp, port_mmio + PORT_CMD); > > Best wishes > > Norbert > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} > JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer > DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > PELUTHO (n.) A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against > a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses. > --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- 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