On 6/18/18 1:33 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... >> Jens Axboe (10): >> libata: introduce notion of separate hardware tags >> libata: convert core and drivers to ->hw_tag usage >> libata: bump ->qc_active to a 64-bit type >> libata: use ata_tag_internal() consistently >> libata: remove assumption that ATA_MAX_QUEUE - 1 is the max >> sata_nv: set host can_queue count appropriately >> libata: add extra internal command > > Replying here because I can't find the original mail. > > The above commit is causing one of my machines to constantly spew ata > messages on the console, according to bisect: > > # first bad commit: [28361c403683c2b00d4f5e76045f3ccd299bf99d] libata: add extra internal command > > To get it to boot I have to also apply: > > 88e10092f6a6 ("sata_fsl: use the right type for tag bitshift") > > > The system boots OK and seems fine, except that it's just printing > multiple of these per second: > > ata2: Signature Update detected @ 0 msecs > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata2: Signature Update detected @ 0 msecs > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata2: Signature Update detected @ 0 msecs > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata2: Signature Update detected @ 0 msecs > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata2: Signature Update detected @ 0 msecs > > And it never seems to stop. > > The machine is a Freescale/NXP P5020ds, using the sata_fsl driver > presumably. Any ideas? Hmm that's odd. Can you include the boot log from a working boot as well? Would be nice to see what devices are on the sata adapter. The above just looks like a hardreset loop. -- Jens Axboe -- 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