linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: stop SSD (non-rotational) disks before reboot

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Date:   Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:31:57 +0100
From:   Simon Arlott <simon@...iron.net>
To:     Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: stop SSD (non-rotational) disks before reboot

On 23/06/2020 21:42, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> [1] I have long lost the will and energy to pursue this, so *this* is a
> throw-away anecdote for anyone that cares: I reported here a few years
> ago that many models of *SATA* based SSDs from Crucial/Micron, Samsung
> and Intel were complaining (through their SMART attributes) that Linux
> was causing unsafe shutdowns.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/10/1181
> 
> TL;DR: wait one *extra* second after the SSD acknowleged the STOP
> command as complete before you trust the SSD device is safe to be
> powered down (i.e. before reboot, suspend, poweroff/shutdown, and device
> removal/detach).  This worked around the issue for every vendor and
> model of SSD we tested.

Looking through that thread, it looks like a simple 1 second delay on
shutdown/reboot patch hasn't been proposed yet?

In my case none of the SSDs are recording unexpected power loss if they
are stopped before the reboot, but the reboot won't necessarily be
instantaneous after the last stop command returns.

-- 
Simon Arlott