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From: arno@natisbad•org (Arnaud Ebalard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [BUG,REGRESSION] SATA regression on 12.0-rc4 kernel
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:40:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761t6bzwl.fsf@natisbad.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADLC3L3EYU0VSfLMYjo013jSTWm4yZw24y+4HdvOOoEkOc6uhQ@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Hancock's message of "Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:50:33 -0600")


Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail•com> writes:

>> With two different disks (same model though, i.e. 250GB 3.5" WD blue), it
>> consistently works on a 3.11.4 and consistently fails on 3.12-rc3 and
>> 3.12-rc4 (not tested others 3.12-rc). The problem is easy to reproduce,
>> i.e. I just need to perform some disk operations. With the two commits
>> reverted from 3.12-rc4, I can consistently do a "find / -exec sha256sum
>> '{}' \;" w/o anything happening.
>>
>> What I do not understand is why the log report failed FPDMA commands if
>> the feature is supposed to be SSD-related (looking only at commit
>> messages: 87fb6c31b9 seems SSD-related, ed36911c74 does not). Is it
>> possible that the feature detection is what is causing the issue? Or
>> that the hardware report support w/o having? I can test with a different
>> disk if you think it would help.
>
> The commands that are failing are WRITE FPDMA QUEUED which is a
> regular NCQ write command. The ones that these commits add support for
> are FPDMA_SEND and FPDMA_RECV which are used for NCQ trim commands.
>
> It's possible that the feature detection for this is picking up
> support for FPDMA SEND/RECV on this drive when it shouldn't be. Can
> you post the output of "hdparm --Istdout /dev/sdX" for one of these
> drives (where X matches the drive in question)?

Will do that tonight and post the output.

a+

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-06 21:38 [BUG,REGRESSION] ARM: mvebu: SATA regression w/ 12.0-rc4 kernel Arnaud Ebalard
2013-10-07 12:59 ` Jason Cooper
     [not found]   ` <87bo303nfe.fsf@natisbad.org>
2013-10-08  2:38     ` [BUG,REGRESSION] SATA regression on " Robert Hancock
2013-10-08  6:10       ` Arnaud Ebalard
2013-10-09  5:50         ` Robert Hancock
2013-10-09  8:40           ` Arnaud Ebalard [this message]
2013-10-09 15:22           ` Marc (Marc-Angelo) Carino
2013-10-09 18:56             ` Arnaud Ebalard

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