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Yinghai Lu
033e97b24a forcedeth: ck804 and mcp55 doesn't need timerirq
Impact: cleanup

so get less irq.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:56 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
0335ef5d59 forcedeth: disable irq at first before schedule rx
Impact: clean up

schedule it later after disable it.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:36 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
79d30a581f forcedeth: don't clear nic_poll_irq too early
Impact: fix bug

for msix, we still need that flag to enable irq respectively

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:30:01 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
ddb213f076 forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx
Impact: make /proc/interrupts could show more info which irq is rx or other for msi-x

add three name fields for rx, tx, other

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06 01:29:23 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ff491a7334 netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
messages at all were delivered:

1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
   failure, return -ENOBUFS.
3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
messages to the listeners have failed:

1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
   -ENOBUFS.
2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
conntrackd) in return.

This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
if they hit ENOBUFS.

BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00
Alex Chiang
612e244c12 e1000e: normalize usage of serdes_has_link
Cosmetic change to use struct e1000_mac_info.serdes_has_link
consistently as the 'bool' that it's declared as.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <Jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:55:45 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
34b0368c68 ixgbe: Display EEPROM version in ethtool -i queries
Currently ixgbe does not display the EEPROM version in ethtool -i, where
other drivers do.  The EEPROM version is located at offset 0x29.  This
patch adds support to display it.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:54:42 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
3201d3130e ixgbe: Update link setup code to better support autonegotiation of speed
The current code has some flaws in it when performing autonegotiation,
especially on KX/KX4 links.  This patch updates the code to better handle
the autonegotiation states on link setup.  The patch also removes a redundant
link configuration call on driver load, and moves link configuration to
the ->open() path.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:54:21 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
bc97114d3f ixgbe: Refactor set_num_queues() and cache_ring_register()
The current code to determine the number of queues the device will want
on driver initialization is ugly and difficult to maintain.  It also
doesn't allow for easy expansion for future features or future hardware.
This patch refactors these routines, and make them easier to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:53:59 -08:00
Herbert Xu
33dccbb050 tun: Limit amount of queued packets per device
Unlike a normal socket path, the tuntap device send path does
not have any accounting.  This means that the user-space sender
may be able to pin down arbitrary amounts of kernel memory by
continuing to send data to an end-point that is congested.

Even when this isn't an issue because of limited queueing at
most end points, this can also be a problem because its only
response to congestion is packet loss.  That is, when those
local queues at the end-point fills up, the tuntap device will
start wasting system time because it will continue to send
data there which simply gets dropped straight away.

Of course one could argue that everybody should do congestion
control end-to-end, unfortunately there are people in this world
still hooked on UDP, and they don't appear to be going away
anywhere fast.  In fact, we've always helped them by performing
accounting in our UDP code, the sole purpose of which is to
provide congestion feedback other than through packet loss.

This patch attempts to apply the same bandaid to the tuntap device.
It creates a pseudo-socket object which is used to account our
packets just as a normal socket does for UDP.  Of course things
are a little complex because we're actually reinjecting traffic
back into the stack rather than out of the stack.

The stack complexities however should have been resolved by preceding
patches.  So this one can simply start using skb_set_owner_w.

For now the accounting is essentially disabled by default for
backwards compatibility.  In particular, we set the cap to INT_MAX.
This is so that existing applications don't get confused by the
sudden arrival EAGAIN errors.

In future we may wish (or be forced to) do this by default.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 21:25:32 -08:00
David S. Miller
7870389478 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-02-04 16:52:41 -08:00
David S. Miller
005c79b3d4 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-04 16:51:58 -08:00
Andy Fleming
4d7902f22b gianfar: Fix stashing support
Stashing is only supported on the 85xx (e500-based) SoCs.  The 83xx and 86xx
chips don't have a proper cache for this.  U-Boot has been updated to add
stashing properties to the device tree nodes of gianfar devices on 85xx.  So
now we modify Linux to keep stashing off unless those properties are there.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:43:44 -08:00
Andy Fleming
0fd56bb5be gianfar: Add support for skb recycling
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:43:16 -08:00
Andy Fleming
1577ecef76 netdev: Merge UCC and gianfar MDIO bus drivers
The MDIO bus drivers for the UCC and gianfar ethernet controllers are
essentially the same.  There's no reason to duplicate that much code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:42:35 -08:00
Andy Fleming
b98ac702f4 gianfar: Fix potential soft reset race
SOFT_RESET must be asserted for at least 3 TX clocks in order for it to work
properly.  The syncs in the gfar_write() commands have been hiding this, but
we need to guarantee it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:38:05 -08:00
Andy Fleming
1fbe49328f gianfar: Fix BD_LENGTH_MASK definition
BD_LENGTH_MASK is supposed to catch the low 16-bits of the status field, not
the low byte.  The old way, we would never be able to clean up tx packets with
sizes divisible by 256.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:37:40 -08:00
Alex Williamson
9c46f6d42f virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC
Many physical NICs let the OS re-program the "hardware" MAC
address.  Virtual NICs should allow this too.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:36:34 -08:00
Alex Williamson
0bde95690d virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor
VLAN filtering allows the hypervisor to drop packets from VLANs
that we're not a part of, further reducing the number of extraneous
packets recieved.  This makes use of the VLAN virtqueue command class.
The CTRL_VLAN feature bit tells us whether the backend supports VLAN
filtering.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:35:13 -08:00
Alex Williamson
f565a7c259 virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table
Make use of the MAC control virtqueue class to support a MAC
filter table.  The filter table is managed by the hypervisor.
We consider the table to be available if the CTRL_RX feature
bit is set.  We leave it to the hypervisor to manage the table
and enable promiscuous or all-multi mode as necessary depending
on the resources available to it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:35:13 -08:00
Alex Williamson
2af7698e2d virtio_net: Add a set_rx_mode interface
Make use of the RX_MODE control virtqueue class to enable the
set_rx_mode netdev interface.  This allows us to selectively
enable/disable promiscuous and allmulti mode so we don't see
packets we don't want.  For now, we automatically enable these
as needed if additional unicast or multicast addresses are
requested.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:35:12 -08:00
Alex Williamson
2a41f71d3b virtio_net: Add a virtqueue for outbound control commands
This will be used for RX mode, MAC filter table, VLAN filtering, etc...

The control transaction consists of one or more "out" sg entries and
one or more "in" sg entries.  The first out entry contains a header
defining the class and command.  Additional out entries may provide
data for the command.  The last in entry provides a status response
back from the command.

Virtqueues typically run asynchronous, running a callback function
when there's data in the channel.  We can't readily make use of this
in the command paths where we need to use this.  Instead, we kick
the virtqueue and spin.  The kick causes an I/O write, triggering an
immediate trap into the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:35:11 -08:00
Divy Le Ray
65ab8385b6 cxgb3: Fix lro switch
The LRO switch is always set to 1 in the rx processing loop.
It breaks the accelerated iSCSI receive traffic.
Fix its computation.

Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-04 16:31:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
25431e900d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  sunrpc: fix rdma dependencies
  e1000: Fix PCI enable to honor the need_ioport flag
  sgi-xp: link XPNET's net_device_ops to its net_device structure
  pcnet_cs: Fix misuse of the equality operator.
  hso: add new device id's
  dca: redesign locks to fix deadlocks
  cassini/sungem: limit reaches -1, but 0 tested
  net: variables reach -1, but 0 tested
  qlge: bugfix: Add missing netif_napi_del call.
  qlge: bugfix: Add flash offset for second port.
  qlge: bugfix: Fix endian issue when reading flash.
  udp: increments sk_drops in __udp_queue_rcv_skb()
  net: Fix userland breakage wrt. linux/if_tunnel.h
  net: packet socket packet_lookup_frame fix
2009-02-04 07:52:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0d7a063fa7 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd:
  mfd: Remove non exported references from pcf50633
2009-02-04 07:40:54 -08:00
Samuel Thibault
5193535517 Fix my email address in qd65xx.[ch]/pata_qdi.c
The @fnac.net will be shut down within a couple of months, so fix my
email address.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-03 16:53:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7420b73dc0 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  NVRAM depends on RTC_DRV_CMOS
  rename platform_driver name "flash" to "sa1100-mtd"
  annotate that [fp, #-4] is the saved lr
  Use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to initialize bad_irq_desc.lock
  ARM: OMAP: fix fault in enter_full_retention()
  ARM: OMAP: Mask interrupts when disabling interrupts, v2
  ARM: OMAP: gptimer min_delta_ns corrected
  ARM: OMAP: Fix hsmmc init, v2
  ARM: OMAP: Fix omap34xx revision detection for ES3.1
  ARM: OMAP: DMA: Fix uninitialized channel flags
  ARM: OMAP: Fix race in OMAP2/3 DMA IRQ handling
  ARM: OMAP: Fix McBSP spin_lock deadlock
  [ARM] 5366/1: fix shared memory coherency with VIVT L1 + L2 caches
  [ARM] call undefined instruction exception handler with irqs enabled
  [ARM] msm: fix build errors
  [ARM] etherh: continue fixing build failure
2009-02-03 16:52:10 -08:00
Karsten Keil
4d7155b932 e1000: Fix PCI enable to honor the need_ioport flag
On machine were no IO ports are assigned the call
to pci_enable_device() will fail, even if need_ioport
is false, we need to use pci_enable_device_mem() here.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:18:01 -08:00
Dean Nelson
714c48f1bb sgi-xp: link XPNET's net_device_ops to its net_device structure
A recent patch by Stephen Hemminger to convert XPNET to use net_device_ops and
internal net_device_stats failed to link the net_device_ops structure to the
net_device structure. See commit e8ac9c55f2
("xpnet: convert devices to new API").

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:16:48 -08:00
Breno Leitao
073a24364f s2io: Formatting log message
S2IO driver is printing dev->name before the name being allocated, which
display eth%d instead of eth0, eth1, etc. Example: 

eth%d: Enabling MSIX failed
eth%d: MSI-X requested but failed to enable

This patch just change eth%d to s2io.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:15:15 -08:00
Cord Walter
a9d3a14692 pcnet_cs: Fix misuse of the equality operator.
Signed-off-by: Cord Walter <qord@cwalter.net>
Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:14:05 -08:00
Filip Aben
67dd82462d hso: add new device id's
This patch adds a few device ID's. It also removes an ID that was used
in an internal engineering version of a device and will never see
commercial light. Even if this ID will be 'recycled' in the future,
which is very unlikely, we don't know what kind of device will be
behind it. Therefore it's safer to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Filip Aben <f.aben@option.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:13:26 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
3834507d0c sky2: set VPD size
Read configuration register during probe and use it to size the
available VPD. Move existing code using same register slightly
earlier in probe handling.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:08:36 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
e4c2abe29e sky2: move VPD display into debug interface
The VPD stuff has more data and isn't generally that useful, so move
it into the existing debugfs display and use the new PCI VPD
accessor routines.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:08:36 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
454e6cb686 sky2: handle dma mapping errors
On non-x86 platforms it is possible to run out of DMA mapping resources.
The driver was ignoring this and could cause corruptions.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:08:35 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
1bd68c0485 sky2: remove unneede workaround
This workaround is not needed. It was inherited from sk98lin driver but only
applies to an early development version of the chip that is not supported
by sky2.  The workaround required an unnecessary pci read which hurts performance

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-03 15:08:34 -08:00
David S. Miller
1725d409ca Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-02-03 12:41:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
52a84ec2f3 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  libata: implement HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS and apply it to WD My Book
  libata: add no penalty retry request for EH device handling routines
  libata: improve probe failure handling
  libata: add @spd_limit to sata_down_spd_limit()
  libata: clear dev->ering in smarter way
  libata: check onlineness before using SPD in sata_down_spd_limit()
  libata: move ata_dev_disable() to libata-eh.c
  libata: fix EH device failure handling
  sata_nv: ck804 has borked hardreset too
  ide/libata: fix ata_id_is_cfa() (take 4)
  libata: fix kernel-doc warnings
  ahci: add a module parameter to ignore the SSS flags for async scanning
  sata_mv: Fix chip type for Hightpoint RocketRaid 1740/1742
  [libata] sata_sil: Fix compilation error with libata debugging enabled
2009-02-03 07:39:55 -08:00
David S. Miller
b3ff29d2cc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/Kconfig
2009-02-03 00:15:35 -08:00
David S. Miller
fb53fde976 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-02-02 23:55:27 -08:00
Michael Tokarev
1bded710a5 tun: Check supplemental groups in TUN/TAP driver.
Michael Tokarev wrote:
[]
> 2, and this is the main one: How about supplementary groups?
>
> Here I have a valid usage case: a group of testers running various
> versions of windows using KVM (kernel virtual machine), 1 at a time,
> to test some software.  kvm is set up to use bridge with a tap device
> (there should be a way to connect to the machine).  Anyone on that group
> has to be able to start/stop the virtual machines.
>
> My first attempt - pretty obvious when I saw -g option of tunctl - is
> to add group ownership for the tun device and add a supplementary group
> to each user (their primary group should be different).  But that fails,
> since kernel only checks for egid, not any other group ids.
>
> What's the reasoning to not allow supplementary groups and to only check
> for egid?

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-02 23:34:56 -08:00
Maciej Sosnowski
eb4400e3a0 dca: redesign locks to fix deadlocks
Change spin_locks to irqsave to prevent dead-locks.
Protect adding and deleting to/from dca_providers list.
Drop the lock during dca_sysfs_add_req() and dca_sysfs_remove_req() calls
as they might sleep (use GFP_KERNEL allocation).

Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-02 23:26:57 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1a5645bc90 connector: create connector workqueue only while needed once
The netlink connector uses its own workqueue to relay the datas sent
from userspace to the appropriate callback.  If you launch the test
from Documentation/connector and change it a bit to send a high flow
of data, you will see thousands of events coming to the "cqueue"
workqueue by looking at the workqueue tracer.

This flow of events can be sent very quickly. So, to not encumber the
kevent workqueue and delay other jobs, the "cqueue" workqueue should
remain.

But this workqueue is pointless most of the time, it will always be
created (assuming you have built it of course) although only
developpers with specific needs will use it.

So avoid this "most of the time useless task", this patch proposes to
create this workqueue only when needed once.  The first jobs to be
sent to connector callbacks will be sent to kevent while the "cqueue"
thread creation will be scheduled to kevent too.

The following jobs will continue to be scheduled to keventd until the
cqueue workqueue is created, and then the rest of the jobs will
continue to perform as usual, through this dedicated workqueue.

Each time I tested this patch, only the first event was sent to
keventd, the rest has been sent to cqueue which have been created
quickly.

Also, this patch fixes some trailing whitespaces on the connector files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-02 23:22:04 -08:00
Roel Kluin
ff01b91636 cassini/sungem: limit reaches -1, but 0 tested
while (limit--)
	if (test())
		break;

if (limit <= 0)
	goto test_failed;

In the last iteration, limit is decremented after the test to 0.
If just thereafter test() succeeds and a break occurs, the goto
still occurs because limit is 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-02 23:19:50 -08:00
Roel Kluin
46578a6913 net: variables reach -1, but 0 tested
while (timeout--) { ... }

timeout becomes -1 if the loop isn't ended otherwise, not 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-02 21:39:02 -08:00
Tejun Heo
9062712fa9 libata: implement HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS and apply it to WD My Book
3Gbps is often much more prone to transmission failures.  It's usually
okay to let EH handle speed down after transmission failures but some
WD My Book drives completely shutdown after certain transmission
failures and after it only power cycling can revive them.  Combined
with the fact that external drives often end up with cable assembly
which is longer than usual and more likely to have intervening gender,
this makes these drives very likely to shutdown under certain
configurations virtually rendering them unusable.

This patch implements HOARKGE_1_5_GBPS and applies it to WD My Book
such that 1.5Gbps is forced once the device is identified.

Please take a look at the following bz for related reports.

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9913

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-02-02 23:04:31 -05:00
Tejun Heo
cf9a590a9e libata: add no penalty retry request for EH device handling routines
Let -EAGAIN from EH device handling routines trigger EH retry without
consuming its tries count.  This will be used to implement link SPD
horkage which requires hardreset to adjust SPD without affecting other
EH decisions.  As it bypasses the forward progress guarantee provided
by the tries count, the requester is responsible for ensuring forward
progress.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-02-02 23:04:19 -05:00
Tejun Heo
c2c7a89c5e libata: improve probe failure handling
When link is flaky at high speed, it isn't uncommon for a device to
repeatedly fail probing sequence early after successfully negotiating
high link speed.  This often leads to consecutive hotplug events
without successful probing.

This patch improves libata EH such that it remembers probing trials
and if there have been more than two unsuccessful trials in the past
60 seconds, slows down link speed to 1.5Gbps.

As link speed negotiation is the duty of the PHY layer proper, the
goal of this fallback mechanism is to provide the last resort when
everything else fails, which unfortunately happens not too
infrequently, so no fancy 6->3->1.5 speeding down or highest
successful transmission speed seen kind of logics (yet).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-02-02 23:03:34 -05:00
Tejun Heo
a07d499b47 libata: add @spd_limit to sata_down_spd_limit()
Add @spd_limit to sata_down_spd_limit() so that the caller can specify
the SPD limit it wants.  This parameter doesn't get in the way even
when it's too low.  The closest possible limit is applied.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-02-02 23:03:22 -05:00
Tejun Heo
99cf610aa4 libata: clear dev->ering in smarter way
dev->ering used to be cleared together with the rest of ata_device in
ata_dev_init() which is called whenever a probing event occurs.
dev->ering is about to be used to track probing failures so it needs
to remain persistent over multiple porbing events.  This patch
achieves this by doing the following.

* Instead of CLEAR_OFFSET, define CLEAR_BEGIN and CLEAR_END and only
  clear between BEGIN and END.  ering is moved after END.  The split
  of persistent area is to allow hotter items remain at the head.

* ering is explicitly cleared on ata_dev_disable() and when device
  attach succeeds.  So, ering is persistent throug a device's life
  time (unless explicitly cleared of course) and also through periods
  inbetween disablement of an attached device and successful detection
  of the next one.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-02-02 23:03:17 -05:00