libata: retry FS IOs even if it has failed with AC_ERR_INVALID
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:18:09 +0000 (16:18 +0900)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0000 (14:25 -0500)
libata currently doesn't retry if a command fails with AC_ERR_INVALID
assuming that retrying won't get it any further even if retried.
However, a failure may be classified as invalid through hardware
glitch (incorrect reading of the error register or firmware bug) and
there isn't whole lot to gain by not retrying as actually invalid
commands will be failed immediately.  Also, commands serving FS IOs
are extremely unlikely to be invalid.  Retry FS IOs even if it's
marked invalid.

Transient and incorrect invalid failure was seen while debugging
firmware related issue on Samsung n130 on bko#14314.

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14314

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c

index 0ea97c942ceda3485670021b18b9721802949391..9f6cfac0f2cce6ac50bf8ca2262326cad5c21201 100644 (file)
@@ -2028,8 +2028,9 @@ static void ata_eh_link_autopsy(struct ata_link *link)
                        qc->err_mask &= ~(AC_ERR_DEV | AC_ERR_OTHER);
 
                /* determine whether the command is worth retrying */
-               if (!(qc->err_mask & AC_ERR_INVALID) &&
-                   ((qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_IO) || qc->err_mask != AC_ERR_DEV))
+               if (qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_IO ||
+                   (!(qc->err_mask & AC_ERR_INVALID) &&
+                    qc->err_mask != AC_ERR_DEV))
                        qc->flags |= ATA_QCFLAG_RETRY;
 
                /* accumulate error info */