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Message-ID: <473C08B2.1030004@purplescout.se>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:52:02 +0100
From: Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@...plescout.se>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide/ide-probe.c, kernel 2.6.23.1
Hi, thanks for the reply. :)
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 12 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:22:41 +0100 Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@...plescout.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> This week I ran into a strange hardware problem. During boot I got a 35
>>> second delay while waiting for IDE-disks that weren't there to report
>
> With what chipset and host driver does this happen?
I am not sure about the chip-set but I think it was vt82c686b. It used
the via82cxxx-driver, but only _after_ using the generic ide-code to
probe/wait (a long time) for the disks. (This was in Suse 10.1 SP 1.)
>>> that they were not in a BSY state. The problem was most likely in the
>>> hardware but this patch enables you to ignore waiting for disks by
>>> setting hdX=noprobe (and not setting the geometry by hand) as a kernel
>>> option.
>>>
>>> If no noprobe-option is set the code will work (more or less) as the
>>> original but if set the code will skip the ide_wait_not_busy() for that
>>> drive. Even if there would be a drive there and it is still BSY
>>> afterwards it should not matter since it isn't probed for later.
>>>
>>> There are other ways to get around the "35-seconds-of-waiting-in-vain",
>>> like actually fix the hardware, insert a second drive that works or
>>> recompile the kernel with edd-support builtin (atleast I've seen that
>>> solution on a forum) and possibly others. But this patch would allow
>>> people to get Linux to boot quickly on wonky hardware without having to
>>> recompile anything.
>>> (The code also honors the MAX_DRIVES variable instead of assuming that
>>> ther will be 2 drives on the bus.)
>> I keep on hearing about problems with boot-time IDE probing. It's public
>> enemy #1 with the embedded guys.
>
> The problem is that we are not hearing about them.
>
> Please forward the reports to linux-ide@...r.kernel.org.
>
>> It does seem that operator intervention is needed in some fashion.
>>
>>> I will be happy for all the comments I can get. :) But be gentle, this
>>> is my first patch...
>
> Jonas, could you also put printk() dumping content of 'stat' in
> ide-iops.c::ide_wait_not_busy() so we can verify that it is not
> some problem with ide_wait_not_busy() itself.
>
Sorry. :( I don't have access to the hardware anymore (which is a
"home-made" embedded machine). But from what I could get from poking
around was that the BSY-bit on the slave (that never has or ever will
exists) was set, probably because those who built the thing wanted to
save money and/or space on that "billionth of a cent"-resistor that Alan
Cox talked about.
>>> Best regards
>>> Jonas Stare
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@...plescout.se>
>>> --
>>> diff -u linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
>>> linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
>>> --- linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-10-12
>>> 18:43:44.000000000 +0200
>>> +++ linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-11-09
>>> 10:43:16.000000000 +0100
>>> @@ -643,6 +643,7 @@
>>> static int wait_hwif_ready(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
>>> {
>>> int rc;
>>> + int unit;
>>>
>>> printk(KERN_DEBUG "Probing IDE interface %s...\n", hwif->name);
>>>
>>> @@ -659,20 +660,24 @@
>>> return rc;
>>>
>
> Hmm, so the first ide_wait_not_busy() (for the currently
> selected device) is OK and doesn't stall?
>
It didn't stall for me... But even if it had, probe_hwif() will ignore
the entire controller if you set "idex=noprobe".
(From drivers/ide/ide-probe.c)
static void probe_hwif(ide_hwif_t *hwif, void (*fixup)(ide_hwif_t *hwif))
{
unsigned int unit;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int irqd;
if (hwif->noprobe)
return;
>>> /* Now make sure both master & slave are ready */
>>> - SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
>>> - hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
>>> - mdelay(2);
>>> - rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
>>> - if (rc)
>>> - return rc;
>>> - SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[1]);
>>> - hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
>>> - mdelay(2);
>>> - rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
>>> + for (unit = 0; unit < MAX_DRIVES; ++unit) {
>>> + /* Ignore disks that we will not probe for later. */
>>> + if (!hwif->drives[unit].noprobe ||
>>> + hwif->drives[unit].forced_geom) {
>
> It is better to check for ->present
> (->forced_geom implies that ->present is set).
>
Great comment. :) I'll change that right away...
>>> + SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[unit]);
>>> + hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
>>> + mdelay(2);
>>> + rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
>>> + /* Exit function with master selected (let's be
>>> sane) */
>>> + SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
>
> This changes the previous behavior adding an extra SELECT_DRIVE()
> before trying the slave drive.
>
Mmmm, yes, I know. But I couldn't come up with a clean and nice way to
be sure that the first drive is selected. Maybe I could move it inside
the if-statement below?
>>> + if (rc)
>>> + return rc;
>>> + } else {
>>> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "Skip ide_wait_not_busy for
>>> %s:%d\n",
>>> + hwif->name, unit);
>>> + }
>>> + }
>>>
>>> - /* Exit function with master reselected (let's be sane) */
>>> - SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
>>> -
>>> return rc;
>>> }
>> Maybe that's the fix, maybe not - I'll defer to others on that (please).
>>
>> Your email client is wordwrapping the text, and replaces tabs with spaces.
>> Most of them seem to do this nowadays. For thunderbird, please see
>> http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird
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