linux-kernel - Re: sata_mv port lockup on hotplug (kernel 2.6.38.2)

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Message-ID: <4DA467FB.6020905@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:55 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Bruce Stenning <b.stenning@...igovision.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: sata_mv port lockup on hotplug (kernel 2.6.38.2)

On 11-04-12 10:07 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 11-04-12 06:30 AM, Bruce Stenning wrote:
..
>> I am currently inserting tracing into 2.6.38.2 to try to work out what is going
>> on.  From mv_write_main_irq_mask I can see that the IRQ for each port is still
>> enabled, even when ports stop responding.  I see interrupts generated when I
>> hotplug or unplug disks on ports that are not locked up, but no interrupt is
>> generated at all for the ports that are locked (this is from tracing in
>> asm_do_IRQ in arch/arm/kernel/irq.c)
>>
>> One thing I noticed was that there is no spinlock around the
>> mv_save_cached_regs/mv_edma_cfg in mv_hardreset (unlike mv_port_start and
>> mv_port_stop); why is this?
> 
> The mv_hardreset path is run from a libata-eh thread,
> and it assumes it has exclusive access to the hardware.


Mmm.. another suspect is sata_mv's ".sff_irq_clear" function.
I don't see any locking in libata-sff.c before calling that one.

Tejun -- should libata-sff grab ap->lock before calling .sff_irq_clear,
or is that up to the LLD to do?

Thanks.
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