linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH PROPOSAL] libata/pci: Move D3 hack handling from libata into PCI

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:14:26 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH PROPOSAL] libata/pci: Move D3 hack handling from libata
 into PCI

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:24 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:18 am Alan Cox wrote:
> > Libata has some hacks to deal with certain controllers going silly in D3
> > state. The right way to handle this is to keep a PCI device flag for such
> > devices. That can then be generalised for no ATA devices with power
> > problems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> 
> Looks pretty reasonable to me; do you want me to take the drivers/ata bits 
> along with the PCI stuff?
> 
> Btw, what happens to these devices in D3hot?  Do they behave like they're in 
> D3cold or something and require a reset?  Or do they otherwise kill the bus 
> somehow?

They lose some of their configuration bits in a manner we can't restore.
The end effect of that is that if we disable/re-enable them they can't be
put back into proper DMA mode.

Windows it seems doesn't do this to these devices and the BIOS re-inits
the legacy ATA controllers during boot up which makes suspend/resume work.

Alan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/