Re: [PATCH] Fixup ahci suspend / resume

From: Mark Lord
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 09:43:42 EST


Hannes Reinecke wrote:
Hi all,

the current ahci doesn't handle suspend / resume cycles too well.
On certain machines the disk just locks up and refuses to work after a
resume.

This is due to a initialisation error after resume; ahci has fo[u]r
registers containing DMA addresses (which are obviously allocated by the
kernel). Of course there is no guarantee that these addresses are
unchanged across reboots. So ahci loads the suspended image, and after
the suspended image is started the driver is presented with different
DMA addresses, whereas the chip still uses the original ones.

This patch rearranges the suspend / resume code to properly initialise
those registers after a resume. It also contains some initialisation
fixes to make the driver behave more spec-compliant.
..

Is ahci the *only* interface afflicted with this problem?
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