Re: TI: X15 the connected SSD is not detected on Linux next 20221006 tag

[Damien Le Moal]

On 10/14/22 16:31, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, at 2:22 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 10/14/22 07:07, Anders Roxell wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> 8)
>>>>> If reverting these patches restores the eSATA port on this board, then you need
>>>>> to fix the defconfig for that board.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH,
>>>> Anders, enabled the new config CONFIG_AHCI_DWC=y  and tried but the
>>>> device failed to boot.
>>>
>>> I thought it would work with enabling CONFIG_AHCI_DWC=y, but it didn't...
>>
>> As mentioned in my previous reply to Naresh, this is a new driver added in
>> 6.1. Your board was working before so this should not be the driver needed
>> for it.
>>
>>> However, reverting patch 33629d35090f ("ata: ahci: Add DWC AHCI SATA
>>> controller support")
>>> from next-20221013 was a success, kernel booted  and the 'mkfs.ext4' cmd was
>>> successful.
>>
>> Which is very strange... There is only one hunk in that commit that could
>> be considered suspicious:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
>> index 9b56490ecbc3..8f5572a9f8f1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
>> +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
>> @@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ahci_pm_ops, ahci_platform_suspend,
>>  static const struct of_device_id ahci_of_match[] = {
>>         { .compatible = "generic-ahci", },
>>         /* Keep the following compatibles for device tree compatibility */
>> -       { .compatible = "snps,spear-ahci", },
>>         { .compatible = "ibm,476gtr-ahci", },
>> -       { .compatible = "snps,dwc-ahci", },
>>         { .compatible = "hisilicon,hisi-ahci", },
>>         { .compatible = "cavium,octeon-7130-ahci", },
>>         { /* sentinel */ }
>>
>> Is your board using one of these compatible string ?
> 
> The x15 uses "snps,dwc-ahci". I would expect it to detect the device
> with the new driver if that is loaded, but it's possible that the
> driver does not work on all versions of the dwc-ahci hardware.
> 
> Anders, can you provide the boot log from a boot with the new driver
> built in? There should be some messages from dwc-ahci about finding
> the device, but then not ultimately working.
> 
> Depending on which way it goes wrong, the safest fallback for 6.1 is
> probably to move the "snps,spear-ahci" and "snps,dwc-ahci" compatible
> strings back into the old driver, and leave the new one only for 
> the "baikal,bt1-ahci" implementation of it, until it has been
> successfully verified on TI am5/dra7, spear13xx and exynos.

OK. So a fix patch until further tests/debug is completed would be this:

diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci_dwc.c b/drivers/ata/ahci_dwc.c
index 8fb66860db31..7a0cbab00843 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci_dwc.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_dwc.c
@@ -469,8 +469,6 @@ static struct ahci_dwc_plat_data ahci_bt1_plat = {
 };

 static const struct of_device_id ahci_dwc_of_match[] = {
-       { .compatible = "snps,dwc-ahci", &ahci_dwc_plat },
-       { .compatible = "snps,spear-ahci", &ahci_dwc_plat },
        { .compatible = "baikal,bt1-ahci", &ahci_bt1_plat },
        {},
 };
diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
index 8f5572a9f8f1..9b56490ecbc3 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ahci_pm_ops, ahci_platform_suspend,
 static const struct of_device_id ahci_of_match[] = {
        { .compatible = "generic-ahci", },
        /* Keep the following compatibles for device tree compatibility */
+       { .compatible = "snps,spear-ahci", },
        { .compatible = "ibm,476gtr-ahci", },
+       { .compatible = "snps,dwc-ahci", },
        { .compatible = "hisilicon,hisi-ahci", },
        { .compatible = "cavium,octeon-7130-ahci", },
        { /* sentinel */ }

Anders, Naresh,

Can you try this ?

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research