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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:32:52 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, John Fremlin <not@...t.any.name>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
jim.kardach@...el.com
Subject: Re: AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s)
Hi!
> >>>How does it shorten its life?
> >>
> >>Parks your hard drive heads many thousands of times more often than it
> >>does without the aggressive PM features.
> >
> >Spinning-down would definitely shorten the drive lifespan. Does it do
> >that?
> >
> >Parking heads is more like just doing some extra (long) seeks.
> >Is this documented somewhere as being a life-shortening action?
>
> I wrote this in the other thread but writing here too for documentation
> purpose.
>
> * HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H30N locks up completely on slumber. Physical
> power removal and reapply is the only to recover it.
>
> * Some WD raptors spin down (yeap, that's right, it spins down) on slumber.
>
> Wonderful world of ATA. :-P
Do you have some patches to play with? I tried this to get links down,
and it did not save much (if any) power.
(Last hunk is actually tiny cleanup...)
Pavel
diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
index cef2e70..13ef1c5 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ #include <asm/io.h>
#define DRV_NAME "ahci"
#define DRV_VERSION "2.0"
+#define POWER_SAVE
enum {
AHCI_PCI_BAR = 5,
@@ -148,6 +149,8 @@ enum {
PORT_IRQ_PIOS_FIS | PORT_IRQ_D2H_REG_FIS,
/* PORT_CMD bits */
+ PORT_CMD_ALPE = (1 << 27), /* Aggressive Link Power Management Enable */
+ PORT_CMD_ASP = (1 << 26), /* Aggressive entrance to Slumber or Partial power management states */
PORT_CMD_ATAPI = (1 << 24), /* Device is ATAPI */
PORT_CMD_LIST_ON = (1 << 15), /* cmd list DMA engine running */
PORT_CMD_FIS_ON = (1 << 14), /* FIS DMA engine running */
@@ -407,6 +410,9 @@ static void ahci_start_engine(void __iom
tmp |= PORT_CMD_START;
writel(tmp, port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD); /* flush */
+#ifdef POWER_SAVE_V
+ printk("Starting engine\n");
+#endif
}
static int ahci_stop_engine(void __iomem *port_mmio)
@@ -422,6 +428,9 @@ static int ahci_stop_engine(void __iomem
/* setting HBA to idle */
tmp &= ~PORT_CMD_START;
writel(tmp, port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
+#ifdef POWER_SAVE_V
+ printk("Stopping engine\n");
+#endif
/* wait for engine to stop. This could be as long as 500 msec */
tmp = ata_wait_register(port_mmio + PORT_CMD,
@@ -486,7 +495,7 @@ static void ahci_power_up(void __iomem *
}
/* wake up link */
- writel(cmd | PORT_CMD_ICC_ACTIVE, port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
+ writel(cmd | PORT_CMD_ICC_ACTIVE | PORT_CMD_ALPE | PORT_CMD_ASP, port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
}
static void ahci_power_down(void __iomem *port_mmio, u32 cap)
@@ -917,6 +926,14 @@ static void ahci_qc_prep(struct ata_queu
const u32 cmd_fis_len = 5; /* five dwords */
unsigned int n_elem;
+#ifdef POWER_SAVE
+ struct ahci_host_priv *hpriv = ap->host->private_data;
+ void __iomem *mmio = ap->host->mmio_base;
+ void __iomem *port_mmio = ahci_port_base(mmio, ap->port_no);
+
+ ahci_port_resume(ap);
+#endif
+
/*
* Fill in command table information. First, the header,
* a SATA Register - Host to Device command FIS.
@@ -1029,8 +1046,17 @@ static void ahci_host_intr(struct ata_po
qc_active = readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD_ISSUE);
rc = ata_qc_complete_multiple(ap, qc_active, NULL);
- if (rc > 0)
+ if (rc > 0) {
+#ifdef POWER_SAVE
+ struct ahci_host_priv *hpriv = ap->host->private_data;
+ void __iomem *mmio = ap->host->mmio_base;
+ void __iomem *port_mmio = ahci_port_base(mmio, ap->port_no);
+
+ hpriv->cap &= ~HOST_CAP_SSC;
+ ahci_port_suspend(ap, PMSG_SUSPEND);
+#endif
return;
+ }
if (rc < 0) {
ehi->err_mask |= AC_ERR_HSM;
ehi->action |= ATA_EH_SOFTRESET;
@@ -1367,7 +1393,7 @@ static int ahci_host_init(struct ata_pro
hpriv->cap = readl(mmio + HOST_CAP);
hpriv->port_map = readl(mmio + HOST_PORTS_IMPL);
- probe_ent->n_ports = (hpriv->cap & 0x1f) + 1;
+ probe_ent->n_ports = 1; /* (hpriv->cap & 0x1f) + 1; */
VPRINTK("cap 0x%x port_map 0x%x n_ports %d\n",
hpriv->cap, hpriv->port_map, probe_ent->n_ports);
@@ -1543,12 +1569,11 @@ static int ahci_init_one (struct pci_dev
}
base = (unsigned long) mmio_base;
- hpriv = kmalloc(sizeof(*hpriv), GFP_KERNEL);
+ hpriv = kzalloc(sizeof(*hpriv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hpriv) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto err_out_iounmap;
}
- memset(hpriv, 0, sizeof(*hpriv));
probe_ent->sht = ahci_port_info[board_idx].sht;
probe_ent->port_flags = ahci_port_info[board_idx].flags;
--
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