Hi, Sergei, Without this patch, in non-coherent mode, ata_do_set_mode() return with "no PIO support", and disk detection fails. Huacai ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Sergei Shtylyov"<sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2017 05:43 PM To: "Huacai Chen"<chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Christoph Hellwig"<hch@xxxxxx>; Cc: "Marek Szyprowski"<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Robin Murphy"<robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>; "Andrew Morton"<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Fuxin Zhang"<zhangfx@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-kernel"<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ralf Baechle"<ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "James Hogan"<james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-mips"<linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "James E . J . Bottomley"<jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Martin K . Petersen"<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-scsi"<linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Tejun Heo"<tj@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-ide"<linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "stable"<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 5/5] libata: Align DMA buffer todma_get_cache_alignment() On 10/17/2017 11:05 AM, Huacai Chen wrote: > In non-coherent DMA mode, kernel uses cache flushing operations to > maintain I/O coherency, so in ata_do_dev_read_id() the DMA buffer > should be aligned to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. Otherwise, If a DMA buffer > and a kernel structure share a same cache line, and if the kernel > structure has dirty data, cache_invalidate (no writeback) will cause > data corruption. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > index ee4c1ec..e134955 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -1833,8 +1833,19 @@ static u32 ata_pio_mask_no_iordy(const struct ata_device *adev) > unsigned int ata_do_dev_read_id(struct ata_device *dev, > struct ata_taskfile *tf, u16 *id) > { > - return ata_exec_internal(dev, tf, NULL, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, > - id, sizeof(id[0]) * ATA_ID_WORDS, 0); > + u16 *devid; > + int res, size = sizeof(u16) * ATA_ID_WORDS; > + > + if (IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)id, dma_get_cache_alignment(&dev->tdev))) > + res = ata_exec_internal(dev, tf, NULL, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, id, size, 0); > + else { > + devid = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); > + res = ata_exec_internal(dev, tf, NULL, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, devid, size, 0); > + memcpy(id, devid, size); > + kfree(devid); > + } > + > + return res; This function is called only for the PIO mode commands, so I doubt this is necessary... MBR, Sergei