Albert,
I began to try your patch and noticed that the code was different than my
copy of 2.6.15 rc5, so I downloaded 2.6.15 (release) and still see that the
base copy of libata-core.c is different. A good indicator was that
ata_qc_complete() requires 2 parameters in the code from 2.6.15. Can you
tell me where I can find the copy your working off and if I have to have any
other files to support it?
Best wishes,
John Treubig
VT Miltope
From: "John Treubig" <jtreubig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: albertcc@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,dougg@xxxxxxxxxx, dwm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Error handling in LibATA
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:02 -0600
Thanks all for your recommendations. I'm in the process of installing your
patch. Per your requests I've attached copies of lspci, dmesg and two
excerpts from the messages file. The messages from libata.msg are from a
drive attached to the Promise adapter and ide.msg are from a drive attached
to the motherboard secondary IDE. In both cases power was removed during
testing.
My system is built with 2.6.15 rc5 and I will let you know my results.
Thanks again,
John
From: Albert Lee <albertcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: John Treubig <jtreubig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@xxxxxxxxxx>, Doug Maxey <dwm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Error handling in LibATA
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:07:35 +0800
John Treubig wrote:
> I've been working on a problem with Promise 20269 PATA adapter under
> LibATA that if the drive has a write error or time-out, the application
> that is accessing the drive using SG should see some sort of error. My
> first problem was my system hung. After patching the IDE-IO.C, with a
> recognized patch, I have been able to keep my system from hanging. Now
> the only problem is the application gets no notification that the drive
> has been rendered inaccessible. (Test case is to run a system with my
> app going, and then pull the power from the drive. System log shows the
> errors, but nothing gets back to the app). The app does get
> notifications if I perform the same type of test on a drive attached to
> the motherboard secondary IDE adapter, so we know the app is correctly
> implemented.
As Alan commented, not sure you are using IDE or libata?
Could you send the boot dmesg?
>
> I've traced the errors down to the fact that the errors are caught in
> libata-core.c (ata_qc_timeout). I'd like to put a call in libata-core.c
> that would cause an error to be reflected back to the application. Can
> you suggest the function or method that would do this?
>
If you are using libata, maybe the following patch can help.
It checks more bits of drv_stat, so status like 0x00 are returned as error.
Albert
========
--- linux/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2006-01-11 09:47:25.000000000 +0800
+++ errmask/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2006-01-11 09:51:09.000000000 +0800
@@ -3418,8 +3418,14 @@ static void ata_qc_timeout(struct ata_qu
printk(KERN_ERR "ata%u: command 0x%x timeout, stat 0x%x host_stat
0x%x\n",
ap->id, qc->tf.command, drv_stat, host_stat);
+ /* If drv_stat looks ok (0x50 normally), we treat this
+ * as lost interrupt and complete the qc as normal.
+ * If drv_stat looks bad (0x00, 0xff, etc), err_mask is set.
+ */
+ if (!ata_ok(drv_stat))
+ qc->err_mask |= __ac_err_mask(drv_stat);
+
/* complete taskfile transaction */
- qc->err_mask |= ac_err_mask(drv_stat);
ata_qc_complete(qc);
break;
}
<< dmesg.lst >>
<< pci.lst >>
<< ide.msg >>
<< libata.msg >>
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