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[1/3] pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for Promise UDMA33 cards

Message ID 20100213133553.11564.95723.sendpatchset@localhost
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Delegated to: David Miller
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Feb. 13, 2010, 1:35 p.m. UTC
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for Promise UDMA33 cards

On Monday 04 January 2010 02:30:24 pm Russell King wrote:

> Found the problem - getting rid of the read of the alt status register
> after the command has been written fixes the UDMA CRC errors on write:
> 
> @@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ void ata_sff_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct
> ata_taskfile *tf)
>         DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->print_id, tf->command);
> 
>         iowrite8(tf->command, ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
> -       ata_sff_pause(ap);
> +       ndelay(400);
> +//     ata_sff_pause(ap);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_exec_command);
> 
> 
> This rather makes sense.  The PDC20247 handles the UDMA part of the
> protocol.  It has no way to tell the PDC20246 to wait while it suspends
> UDMA, so that a normal register access can take place - the 246 ploughs
> on with the register access without any regard to the state of the 247.
> 
> If the drive immediately starts the UDMA protocol after a write to the
> command register (as it probably will for the DMA WRITE command), then
> we'll be accessing the taskfile in the middle of the UDMA setup, which
> can't be good.  It's certainly a violation of the ATA specs.

Fix it by adding custom ->sff_exec_command method for UDMA33 chipsets.

Debugged-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Comments

Jeff Garzik Feb. 13, 2010, 10:39 p.m. UTC | #1
On 02/13/2010 08:35 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz<bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for Promise UDMA33 cards
>
> On Monday 04 January 2010 02:30:24 pm Russell King wrote:
>
>> Found the problem - getting rid of the read of the alt status register
>> after the command has been written fixes the UDMA CRC errors on write:
>>
>> @@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ void ata_sff_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct
>> ata_taskfile *tf)
>>          DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->print_id, tf->command);
>>
>>          iowrite8(tf->command, ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
>> -       ata_sff_pause(ap);
>> +       ndelay(400);
>> +//     ata_sff_pause(ap);
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_exec_command);
>>
>>
>> This rather makes sense.  The PDC20247 handles the UDMA part of the
>> protocol.  It has no way to tell the PDC20246 to wait while it suspends
>> UDMA, so that a normal register access can take place - the 246 ploughs
>> on with the register access without any regard to the state of the 247.
>>
>> If the drive immediately starts the UDMA protocol after a write to the
>> command register (as it probably will for the DMA WRITE command), then
>> we'll be accessing the taskfile in the middle of the UDMA setup, which
>> can't be good.  It's certainly a violation of the ATA specs.
>
> Fix it by adding custom ->sff_exec_command method for UDMA33 chipsets.
>
> Debugged-by: Russell King<rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz<bzolnier@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Index: b/drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_pdc202xx_old.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 
  * pata_pdc202xx_old.c 	- Promise PDC202xx PATA for new ATA layer
  *			  (C) 2005 Red Hat Inc
  *			  Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
- *			  (C) 2007,2009 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
+ *			  (C) 2007,2009,2010 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
  *
  * Based in part on linux/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c
  *
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ 
 
 #include "pata_pdc202xx_old.h"
 
+static void pdc20246_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap,
+				  const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
+{
+	DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->print_id, tf->command);
+
+	iowrite8(tf->command, ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
+	ndelay(400);
+}
+
 /**
  *	pdc2026x_bmdma_start		-	DMA engine begin
  *	@qc: ATA command
@@ -171,6 +180,8 @@  static struct ata_port_operations pdc202
 	.cable_detect		= ata_cable_40wire,
 	.set_piomode		= pdc202xx_set_piomode,
 	.set_dmamode		= pdc202xx_set_dmamode,
+
+	.sff_exec_command	= pdc20246_exec_command,
 };
 
 static struct ata_port_operations pdc2026x_port_ops = {