Re: 4.1-rc6: ATA link is slow to respond, please be patient

[Denis Kirjanov]

On 8/7/15, Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this PowerBook G4 was running 3.16 for a while but now I wanted to upgrade
> to latest mainline. However, during bootup the following happens:
>
> ===============================
> [    2.237102] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 irq 39
> [    2.401708] ata1.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HM061GC, LR100-10, max UDMA/100
> [    2.401764] ata1.00: 117231408 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
> [    2.417633] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [   44.918102] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> [   44.920452] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA
> [   44.922725] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:88:64:c2:12/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma
> 69632 in
> [   44.927257] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> [   49.971784] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
> [   49.976529] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
> [   49.978908] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
> [   55.019662] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
> [   60.007677] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
> [   60.012670] ata1: soft resetting link
> [   60.193638] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [   60.196158] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
> [   60.198610] ata1: EH complete
> ===============================

Just tried 4.2.0-rc5+ and haven't hit the issue.

[   17.180034] pata-pci-macio 0002:20:0d.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   17.185862] adb: starting probe task...
[   17.196011] pata-pci-macio 0002:20:0d.0: Activating pata-macio
chipset UniNorth ATA-6, Apple bus ID 3
[   17.202312] scsi host0: pata_macio
[   17.203698] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 irq 39
[   17.219397] adb devices: [2]: 2 c4 [7]: 7 1f
[   17.225400] ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1
[   17.225560] Detected ADB keyboard, type ISO, swapping keys.
[   17.226642] input: ADB keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[   17.227590] input: ADB Powerbook buttons as /devices/virtual/input/input1
[   17.227795] adb: finished probe task...
[   17.368537] ata1.00: ATA-6: TOSHIBA MK8026GAX, PA005B, max UDMA/100
[   17.368717] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[   17.376346] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   17.377544] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      TOSHIBA
MK8026GA 5B   PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   17.386989] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks:
(80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
[   17.393144] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   17.397579] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   17.398215] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   17.404124] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   17.661225]  sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[   17.672937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   18.223985] pata-macio 0.00020000:ata-3: Activating pata-macio
chipset KeyLargo ATA-3, Apple bus ID 0
[   18.233397] scsi host1: pata_macio
[   18.239172] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 irq 24


>
> This happens only once, but systemd thinks there's a hard problem and will
> drop to a recovery shell. I can start sshd and login remotely and then the
> system appears to be running just fine.
>
> This happened in 4.2.0-rc5 so I went back a few versions and found that
> 4.1-rc5 was OK (the error does not show up and the system boots just fine)
> and 4.1-rc6 is not.
>
> Unfortunately a git-bisect between these two versions went completly off
> the charts, I don't know what happened here:
>
> ==================================
> first bad commit:
>
> 0fa372b6c95013af1334b3d5c9b5f03a70ecedab is the first bad commit
> commit 0fa372b6c95013af1334b3d5c9b5f03a70ecedab
> Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed May 27 16:17:19 2015 +0200
>
>     ALSA: hda - Fix noise on AMD radeon 290x controller
> ==================================
>
> I don't have this driver (or ALSA) even selected. I can reproduce this
> error pretty reliably and I'd like to attempt another git-bisect
> run when I'm more awake. But maybe somebody recognizes this error and
> has a hint where this could come from?
>
> dmesg & .config:  http://nerdbynature.de/bits/v4.1-rc6/
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
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>
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> up.
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