Re: [PATCH 4/5] scsi: libsas: check the ata device status by ata_dev_enabled()

[John Garry]

+

On 12/09/2018 09:29, Jason Yan wrote:
> When ata device IDENTIFY failed, the ata device status is
> ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN. The libata reported like:
>
> [113518.620433] ata5.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
> [113518.653646] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
>
> But libsas verifies the device status by ata_dev_disabled(), which
> skiped ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN. This will make libsas think the ata device

/s/skiped/skipped/

> probing succeed the device cannot be actually brought up. And even the
> new bcast of this device will be considered as flutter and will not
> probe this device again.
>
> Change ata_dev_disabled() to !ata_dev_enabled() so that libsas can
> deal with this if the ata device probe failed. New bcasts can let us
> try to probe the device again and bring it up if it is fine to
> IDENTIFY.
>
> Tested-by: Zhou Yupeng <zhouyupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

> CC: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Ewan Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> CC: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> index 64a958a99f6a..4f6cdf53e913 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ void sas_probe_sata(struct asd_sas_port *port)
>  		/* if libata could not bring the link up, don't surface
>  		 * the device
>  		 */
> -		if (ata_dev_disabled(sas_to_ata_dev(dev)))
> +		if (!ata_dev_enabled(sas_to_ata_dev(dev)))

I do wonder if ata_dev_disabled() needs to be updated to cover 
ATA_DEV_UNKNOWN also or even instead of this change?

>  			sas_fail_probe(dev, __func__, -ENODEV);
>  	}