linux-kernel - Re: Spurious completions during NCQ

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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:04:50 +0000
From:	Hugo Mills <hugo@...fax.org.uk>
To:	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@...il.com>
Cc:	Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@...fax.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spurious completions during NCQ

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Calvin Walton wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:46 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > I'm getting these on my Dell Latitude D830:
> > 
> > Feb 15 13:06:00 willow kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x4 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> > Feb 15 13:06:00 willow kernel: ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x4 FIS=004040a1:00000002
> 
> >    In some cases, there are several cmd/res lines listed. It's
> > happening about once an hour or so (not correlated with any other
> > event that I can see). It doesn't seem to be affecting operation of
> > the machine, but it's making me nervous.
> > 
> >    Can anyone set my mind at rest? (Or suggest a fix?)
> 
> You didn't mention which SATA chipset your laptop has, but some quick
> googling says that it's AHCI. Until 2.6.24, the AHCI driver has a
> problem where it'll report superious NCQ completions due to a bug in the
> driver logic.
> 
> > uname -a reports:
> > Linux willow 2.6.23.1-hrt3 #1 SMP Sun Nov 4 14:51:20 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> The fix is simple, upgrade your kernel to 2.6.24 :)

   Excellent. Thank you for clearing this up for me. I'll head off and
do the upgrade now.

   Hugo.

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