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SubjectRe: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5
Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Björn Steinbrink wrote:
>>> All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/
>>>
>>> Björn
>>>
>> OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5:
>>
>> Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode (i.e. when
>> going from doing normal DMA reads/writes to doing a FLUSH CACHE) we just
>> set the ADMA GO register bit appropriately and continue with no delay.
>> It looks like in some cases the controller doesn't respond to this
>> immediately, it takes some nanoseconds for the controller's status
>> registers to reflect the change that was made. It's possible that if we
>> were trying to issue commands during this time, the controller might not
>> react properly. This patch adds some code to wait for the status
>> register to change to the state we asked for before continuing.
>
> Just got two exceptions with your patch, none of the debug messages were
> issued.
>
> Björn

Hmm, another miss, apparently.. Has anyone tried removing these lines
from nv_host_intr in 2.6.20-rc5 sata_nv.c and see what that does?

/* bail out if not our interrupt */
if (!(irq_stat & NV_INT_DEV))
return 0;

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