Hello,
With the patch below I've managed to stabilize the sata_mv driver running a Marvell 5081 SATA controller. Prior to these changes it
would cause sporadic memory corruptions right after insmod. I prefer this driver over Marvell's own driver which have all sorts of weird
bugs.
The patch also increases the maximum possible number of SG entries per IO to 256 (this large sg_tablesize is a requirement for the application we are developing at my company, XIV). Notice that it also zeros-out a reserved field in the SG, I'm not sure how it affected stability but something did. I've also added the 'volatile' qualifier to some fields that belong to structs involved with I/O.
--- drivers/scsi/sata_mv.c 2006-03-08 11:30:10.000000000 +0200
+++ drivers/scsi/sata_mv.c 2006-03-08 20:59:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -72,9 +72,10 @@
*/
MV_CRQB_Q_SZ = (32 * MV_MAX_Q_DEPTH),
MV_CRPB_Q_SZ = (8 * MV_MAX_Q_DEPTH),
- MV_MAX_SG_CT = 176,
+ MV_MAX_SG_CT = 256,
MV_SG_TBL_SZ = (16 * MV_MAX_SG_CT),
- MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ = (MV_CRQB_Q_SZ + MV_CRPB_Q_SZ + MV_SG_TBL_SZ),
+ MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA1_SZ = (MV_CRQB_Q_SZ + MV_CRPB_Q_SZ),
+ MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA2_SZ = (MV_SG_TBL_SZ),
MV_PORTS_PER_HC = 4,
/* == (port / MV_PORTS_PER_HC) to determine HC from 0-7 port */
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@
CRPB_FLAG_STATUS_SHIFT = 8,
- EPRD_FLAG_END_OF_TBL = (1 << 31),
+ EPRD_FLAG_END_OF_TBL = (1 << 15),
/* PCI interface registers */
@@ -257,29 +258,34 @@
chip_608x,
};
+#pragma pack(1)
+
/* Command ReQuest Block: 32B */
struct mv_crqb {
- u32 sg_addr;
- u32 sg_addr_hi;
- u16 ctrl_flags;
+ volatile u32 sg_addr;
+ volatile u32 sg_addr_hi;
+ volatile u16 ctrl_flags;
u16 ata_cmd[11];
};
/* Command ResPonse Block: 8B */
struct mv_crpb {
- u16 id;
- u16 flags;
- u32 tmstmp;
+ volatile u16 id;
+ volatile u16 flags;
+ volatile u32 tmstmp;
};
/* EDMA Physical Region Descriptor (ePRD); A.K.A. SG */
struct mv_sg {
- u32 addr;
- u32 flags_size;
- u32 addr_hi;
- u32 reserved;
+ volatile u32 addr;
+ volatile u16 size;
+ volatile u16 flags;
+ volatile u32 addr_hi;
+ volatile u32 reserved;
};
+#pragma pack(0)
+
struct mv_port_priv {
struct mv_crqb *crqb;
dma_addr_t crqb_dma;
@@ -294,8 +300,8 @@
};
struct mv_port_signal {
- u32 amps;
- u32 pre;
+ volatile u32 amps;
+ volatile u32 pre;
};
struct mv_host_priv;
@@ -365,7 +371,7 @@
.eh_strategy_handler = ata_scsi_error,
.can_queue = MV_USE_Q_DEPTH,
.this_id = ATA_SHT_THIS_ID,
- .sg_tablesize = MV_MAX_SG_CT / 2,
+ .sg_tablesize = MV_MAX_SG_CT,
.max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS,
.cmd_per_lun = ATA_SHT_CMD_PER_LUN,
.emulated = ATA_SHT_EMULATED,
@@ -509,10 +515,7 @@
.reset_bus = mv_reset_pci_bus,
};
-/*
- * module options
- */
-static int msi; /* Use PCI msi; either zero (off, default) or non-zero */
+static int msi; /* Use PCI msi; either zero (off, default) or non-zero */
/*
@@ -770,7 +773,8 @@
static inline void mv_priv_free(struct mv_port_priv *pp, struct device *dev)
{
- dma_free_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ, pp->crpb, pp->crpb_dma);
+ dma_free_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA1_SZ, pp->crpb, pp->crpb_dma);
+ dma_free_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA2_SZ, pp->sg_tbl, pp->sg_tbl_dma);
}
/**
@@ -788,8 +792,8 @@
struct device *dev = ap->host_set->dev;
struct mv_port_priv *pp;
void __iomem *port_mmio = mv_ap_base(ap);
- void *mem;
- dma_addr_t mem_dma;
+ void *mem, *mem2;
+ dma_addr_t mem_dma, mem_dma2;
int rc = -ENOMEM;
pp = kmalloc(sizeof(*pp), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -797,11 +801,17 @@
goto err_out;
memset(pp, 0, sizeof(*pp));
- mem = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ, &mem_dma,
+ mem = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA1_SZ, &mem_dma,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mem)
goto err_out_pp;
- memset(mem, 0, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ);
+ memset(mem, 0, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA1_SZ);
+
+ mem2 = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA2_SZ, &mem_dma2,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!mem2)
+ goto err_out_pp_2;
+ memset(mem2, 0, MV_PORT_PRIV_DMA2_SZ);
rc = ata_pad_alloc(ap, dev);
if (rc)
@@ -820,14 +830,12 @@
*/
pp->crpb = mem;
pp->crpb_dma = mem_dma;
- mem += MV_CRPB_Q_SZ;
- mem_dma += MV_CRPB_Q_SZ;
/* Third item:
* Table of scatter-gather descriptors (ePRD), 16 bytes each
*/
- pp->sg_tbl = mem;
- pp->sg_tbl_dma = mem_dma;
+ pp->sg_tbl = mem2;
+ pp->sg_tbl_dma = mem_dma2;