Re: [PATCH] ata,scsi: do not issue START STOP UNIT on resume

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On 7/31/23 09:39, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> During system resume, ata_port_pm_resume() triggers ata EH to
> 1) Resume the controller
> 2) Reset and rescan the ports
> 3) Revalidate devices
> This EH execution is started asynchronously from ata_port_pm_resume(),
> which means that when sd_resume() is executed, none or only part of the
> above processing may have been executed. However, sd_resume() issues a
> START STOP UNIT to wake up the drive from sleep mode. This command is
> translated to ATA with ata_scsi_start_stop_xlat() and issued to the
> device. However, depending on the state of execution of the EH process
> and revalidation triggerred by ata_port_pm_resume(), two things may
> happen:
> 1) The START STOP UNIT fails if it is received before the controller has
>    been reenabled at the beginning of the EH execution. This is visible
>    with error messages like:
> 
> ata10.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
> sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Start/Stop Unit failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Add. Sense: Unaligned write command
> sd 9:0:0:0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): scsi_bus_resume+0x0/0x90 returns -5
> sd 9:0:0:0: PM: failed to resume async: error -5
> 
> 2) The START STOP UNIT command is received while the EH process is
>    on-going, which mean that it is stopped and must wait for its
>    completion, at which point the command is rather useless as the drive
>    is already fully spun up already. This case results also in a
>    significant delay in sd_resume() which is observable by users as
>    the entire system resume completion is delayed.
> 
> Given that ATA devices will be woken up by libata activity on resume,
> sd_resume() has no need to issue a START STOP UNIT command, which solves
> the above mentioned problems. Do not issue this command by introducing
> the new scsi_device flag no_start_on_resume and setting this flag to 1
> in ata_scsi_dev_config(). sd_resume() is modified to issue a START STOP
> UNIT command only if this flag is not set.

Martin,

Are you OK with this patch ? Can I get your Acked-by please ?


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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