linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide-floppy fix

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:20:47 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide-floppy fix

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:58:48PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:59:16PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > On a different note, the current pata tree on top of v2.6.25-2125-g50515af blows
> > > > up here with the following error:
> > > > 
> > > > [    4.296729] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
> > > > [    4.297905] ICH4: IDE controller (0x8086:0x24cb rev 0x02) at  PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
> > > > [    4.297986] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> > > > [    4.298153] ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > > [    4.298213]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07
> > > > [    4.298282]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f
> > > > [    4.561768] hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20, ATA DISK drive
> > > > [    4.816724] hdb: SAMSUNG SP2014N, ATA DISK drive
> > > > [    4.867959] hda: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
> > > > [    4.868027] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
> > > > [    4.868441] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
> > > > [    5.540683] hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> > > > [    5.795564] hdd: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
> > > > [    5.847295] hdd: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
> > > > [    5.847362] hdd: UDMA/33 mode selected
> > > > [    5.847715] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > > > [    5.855487] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > > > [    5.875927] ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports
> > > > [    5.876012] ide_generic: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
> > > > [    5.876074] ide_generic: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
> > > > [   11.342504] hde: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
> > > > [   17.206535] hdf: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
> > > 
> > > hde? hdf?
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > yep, looks strange to me too. Isn't that the MAX_HWIFS upper bound of a loop.. ?
> 
> Close, it is related to MAX_HWIFS being upper bound on hws[]
> in ide_generic.c but now we loop for ARRAY_SIZE(legacy_bases).
> 
> IOW there is a memset(hws, 0, MAX_HWIFS) missing at the top of
> ide_generic_init() (please re-test after adding it).
> 
> This may also explain the later problems with ide_host_register().
> 
> > > > From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Check the correct flags-location for set features.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I folded the fix into original patch (->dev_flags is not yet
> > > upstream so -stable fix shouldn't be necessary).
> > > 
> > > While on it: I later noticed that there will be also need for common
> > > ATA/ATAPI ->dev_flags in the future so I wonder whether current
> > > ->dev_flags should be renamed to ->atapi_flags (& s/*DFLAG*/*AFLAG*/).
> > > 
> > > If there is agreement on this I'll fix it in pata tree.
> > 
> > ... or if there's room, use a single ->dev_flags for all possible flag settings?
> 
> Unfortunately there isn't enough room left (27 bits are occupied ATM)
> and having u64 ->dev_flags sucks...

I'm pretty sure some of the 27 will be removed later but yeah, u64 flags is
kinda bad since it has to be always atomically updated and this has to be
explicitly staged on 32bit cpus due to the wordsize. I guess two flags members
are the easiest thing to do for now, you might add some comments to both so we
know which is which.

-- 
Regards/Gruß,
    Boris.
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