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ahci_sunxi: Make AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP flag configurable with a module option 

The use of the AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP flag is something which we inherited from
the Allwinner android kernel sources, and I've always wanted to test if this
is really necessary.

So recently I've bought a sata port multiplexer, and I've given this a test
spin on both A10 and A20 devices, and it seems to work fine:

[    2.154456] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    2.161092] ata1.15: Port Multiplier 1.2, 0x197b:0x0325 r0, 5 ports, feat 0x5/0xf
[    2.175511] ata1.00: hard resetting link
[    2.524929] ata1.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)
[    2.531430] ata1.01: hard resetting link
[    2.974465] ata1.01: link resume succeeded after 1 retries
[    3.094932] ata1.01: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    3.101431] ata1.02: hard resetting link
[    4.174466] ata1.02: failed to resume link (SControl 0)
[    4.180065] ata1.02: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
(and the same for links 3 and 4)

Once the NO_PMP flag is removed it correctly sees the 2 disks which I've
attached, and I can mount and use them just fine.

Unfortunately when I then directly attached a disk to the sata port on the
sunxi SoC, and booted a kernel without the AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP flag, it would
not recognize that disk.

It turns out that the sata controller in the sunxi SoCs fails to handle
soft-resets issued to directly attached disks, and when pmp support is
enabled the kernel will always issue a soft-reset.

So add a module parameter to enable pmp usage, and default this to off, so
that directly attached disks keep working normally.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Hans de Goede 2014-11-14 16:09:31 +01:00 committed by Tejun Heo
parent f9ca5ab832
commit 35c16a8f0b
1 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/ata/ahci_sunxi.c
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@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
#include "ahci.h"
/* Insmod parameters */
static bool enable_pmp;
module_param(enable_pmp, bool, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_pmp,
"Enable support for sata port multipliers, only use if you use a pmp!");
#define AHCI_BISTAFR 0x00a0
#define AHCI_BISTCR 0x00a4
#define AHCI_BISTFCTR 0x00a8
@ -184,7 +190,15 @@ static int ahci_sunxi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto disable_resources;
hpriv->flags = AHCI_HFLAG_32BIT_ONLY | AHCI_HFLAG_NO_MSI |
AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP | AHCI_HFLAG_YES_NCQ;
AHCI_HFLAG_YES_NCQ;
/*
* The sunxi sata controller seems to be unable to successfully do a
* soft reset if no pmp is attached, so disable pmp use unless
* requested, otherwise directly attached disks do not work.
*/
if (!enable_pmp)
hpriv->flags |= AHCI_HFLAG_NO_PMP;
rc = ahci_platform_init_host(pdev, hpriv, &ahci_sunxi_port_info);
if (rc)