Re: Drives missing at boot

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 14:42:56 EST


On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:07:11 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Tejun,
> I'm finally home and trying to get back to this. I'm really a bad
> programmer so I don't know what I've done wrong but it seems patch
> isn't happy with me.
>
> c2stable linux # patch --dry-run -p1 <../ata_piix-sidpr-lock.patch
> patching file drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 13:

Whenever the patch file was saved on this system, line 13 of it was
split (probably by an email client). Whenever I see this, I just
join (merge) that line and the next one and try again... sometimes
several lines are malformed and have to be fixed like this.

>
> c2stable linux #
>
> Here's the change I tried to make to a copy of the file:
>
> c2stable linux # cat ../ata_piix-sidpr-lock.patch
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c b/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
> index 7409f98..3971bc0 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct piix_map_db {
> struct piix_host_priv {
> const int *map;
> u32 saved_iocfg;
> + spinlock_t sidpr_lock; /* FIXME: remove once locking in EH is fixed */
> + printk("MWK - ata_sidpr patch applied!\n");
> void __iomem *sidpr;
> };
>
> @@ -951,12 +952,15 @@ static int piix_sidpr_scr_read(struct ata_link *link,
> unsigned int reg, u32 *val)
> {
> struct piix_host_priv *hpriv = link->ap->host->private_data;
> + unsigned long flags;
>
> if (reg >= ARRAY_SIZE(piix_sidx_map))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&hpriv->sidpr_lock, flags);
> piix_sidpr_sel(link, reg);
> *val = ioread32(hpriv->sidpr + PIIX_SIDPR_DATA);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hpriv->sidpr_lock, flags);
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -964,12 +968,15 @@ static int piix_sidpr_scr_write(struct ata_link *link,
> unsigned int reg, u32 val)
> {
> struct piix_host_priv *hpriv = link->ap->host->private_data;
> + unsigned long flags;
>
> if (reg >= ARRAY_SIZE(piix_sidx_map))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&hpriv->sidpr_lock, flags);
> piix_sidpr_sel(link, reg);
> iowrite32(val, hpriv->sidpr + PIIX_SIDPR_DATA);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hpriv->sidpr_lock, flags);
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -1566,6 +1573,7 @@ static int __devinit piix_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> hpriv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*hpriv), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!hpriv)
> return -ENOMEM;
> + spin_lock_init(&hpriv->sidpr_lock);
>
> /* Save IOCFG, this will be used for cable detection, quirk
> * detection and restoration on detach. This is necessary
> c2stable linux #
>
> Maybe you can shoot back something that's done correctly and I'll
> start testing.
>
> I've tried booting a few times. I've had 3 cold boot failures so
> far. No warm boot failures. Each time it failed on cold boot a warm
> boot fixed it.


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~Randy
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