Re: [PATCH] ahci: enable GHC.AE bit before set GHC.HR

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 07:21:09 EST


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:31:20 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21 2007, Peer Chen wrote:
> > According to the description of section 5.2.2.1 and 10.1.2 of AHCI specification rev1_1/rev1_2, GHC.HR shall only be set to ÂÂ1ÂÂ
> > by software when GHC.AE is set to ÂÂ1ÂÂ.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <peerchen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > --- linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig 2007-09-20 11:01:55.000000000 -0400
> > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/ata/ahci.c 2007-09-20 11:07:31.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -834,6 +834,10 @@ static int ahci_reset_controller(struct
> > void __iomem *mmio = host->iomap[AHCI_PCI_BAR];
> > u32 tmp;
> >
> > + /* turn on AHCI mode before controller reset*/
> > + writel(HOST_AHCI_EN, mmio + HOST_CTL);
> > + (void) readl(mmio + HOST_CTL); /* flush */
> > +
> > /* global controller reset */
> > tmp = readl(mmio + HOST_CTL);
> > if ((tmp & HOST_RESET) == 0) {
>
> I appreciate the readl() flushes, but in this particular case we end up
> reading the exact offset again below.

The code above is wrong btw - it is an iomap so both the new and existing
code should be using ioread* not readl

Alan
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