Re: Patch "ata: libata-transport: fix {dma|pio|xfer}_mode sysfs files" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:43:47PM +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> On 6/13/22 1:57 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >>>
> >>>     ata: libata-transport: fix {dma|pio|xfer}_mode sysfs files
> >>>
> >>> to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
> >>>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >>>
> >>> The filename of the patch is:
> >>>      ata-libata-transport-fix-dma-pio-xfer-_mode-sysfs-files.patch
> >>> and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
> >>>
> >>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> >>> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From 72aad489f992871e908ff6d9055b26c6366fb864 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>> From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> >>> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 22:51:07 +0300
> >>> Subject: ata: libata-transport: fix {dma|pio|xfer}_mode sysfs files
> >>>
> >>> From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> commit 72aad489f992871e908ff6d9055b26c6366fb864 upstream.
> >>>
> >>> The {dma|pio}_mode sysfs files are incorrectly documented as having a
> >>> list of the supported DMA/PIO transfer modes, while the corresponding
> >>> fields of the *struct* ata_device hold the transfer mode IDs, not masks.
> >>>
> >>> To match these docs, the {dma|pio}_mode (and even xfer_mode!) sysfs
> >>> files are handled by the ata_bitfield_name_match() macro which leads to
> >>> reading such kind of nonsense from them:
> >>>
> >>> $ cat /sys/class/ata_device/dev3.0/pio_mode
> >>> XFER_UDMA_7, XFER_UDMA_6, XFER_UDMA_5, XFER_UDMA_4, XFER_MW_DMA_4,
> >>> XFER_PIO_6, XFER_PIO_5, XFER_PIO_4, XFER_PIO_3, XFER_PIO_2, XFER_PIO_1,
> >>> XFER_PIO_0
> >>>
> >>> Using the correct ata_bitfield_name_search() macro fixes that:
> >>>
> >>> $ cat /sys/class/ata_device/dev3.0/pio_mode
> >>> XFER_PIO_4
> >>>
> >>> While fixing the file documentation, somewhat reword the {dma|pio}_mode
> >>> file doc and add a note about being mostly useful for PATA devices to
> >>> the xfer_mode file doc...
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: d9027470b886 ("[libata] Add ATA transport class")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ata |    5 +++--
> >>>  drivers/ata/libata-transport.c      |    2 +-
> >>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ata
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ata
> >>> @@ -59,17 +59,18 @@ class
> >>>  
> >>>  dma_mode
> >>>  
> >>> -	Transfer modes supported by the device when in DMA mode.
> >>> +	DMA transfer mode used by the device.
> >>>  	Mostly used by PATA device.
> >>
> >>    You forgot to do s/devce/devices/.
> > 
> > Arg, Yes.
> 
>    So it was you who ported to 4.4/4.14? :-)

No, that was me doing it by hand, my fault, so I'll just leave it for
now.

greg k-h



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