ahci: start engine only during soft/hard resets
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:41:26 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:14:57 +0000 (19:14 -0500)
commit7faa33da9b7add01db9f1ad92c6a5d9145e940a7
tree13b91e9292ff56f7dc67b14a9cf93f30889be13f
parent805a6af8dba5dfdd35ec35dc52ec0122400b2610
ahci: start engine only during soft/hard resets

This is another attempt at fixing the same problem that 270dac35c2
(libata: ahci_start_engine compliant to AHCI spec) tried to solve.
Unfortunately, 270dac35c2 created regressions for a lot more common
controllers and got reverted.

This specific AHCI IP block becomes a brick if the DMA engine is
started while DRQ is set.  It is not possible to avoid the condition
completely but the most common occurrence is caused by spurious use of
ahci_start_engine() from ahci_start_port() during init sequence.

DMA engine is started after both soft and hard resets and
ahci_start_port() is always followed by resets, so there is no reason
to start DMA engine from ahci_start_port().

This patch removes ahci_start_engine() invocation from
ahci_start_port().  This change makes failure path of
ahci_port_suspend() leave engine stopped without following resets.
This is resolved by replacing ahci_start_port() call with
ata_port_freeze() which forces resets afterwards, which is the better
behavior anyway.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/ata/libahci.c