Re: [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot pluggingof root file system on portable storage devices.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jan 06 2008 - 17:44:47 EST


On Sun 2008-01-06 17:26:17, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Am Sonntag 06 Januar 2008 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > > What about people who want to suspend to RAM instead of hibernating and
> > > _do_ want to unplug the USB device containing their root filesystem
> > > while the machine is asleep?

Ok, I guess I'm lost here. That sounds like a nice way to do
self-leg-shooting. Are there such people?

> > >  In this case we will _know_ that the
> > > power session has been interrupted, but USB Persist won't activate
> > > because the host controller never lost power.
> >
> > Would it be hard to force the persist feature on for a replugged device?
>
> Right now the persist feature is enabled by a per-device boolean flag.
> In theory the flag could accept 3 values: off, on if power was lost,
> or on for any resume transition. This would not be a hard change.

But do we need it?

Did you progress on "usb-storage-autosuspend"?

Here are my hacks to try to get SATA to survive autosuspend;
unfortunately they do not work :-(.
Pavel



diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
index 54f38c2..21e6709 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
@@ -1808,8 +1808,22 @@ static void ahci_thaw(struct ata_port *a
writel(pp->intr_mask, port_mmio + PORT_IRQ_MASK);
}

+struct pci_dev *my_pdev;
+
static void ahci_error_handler(struct ata_port *ap)
{
+ struct ata_host *host = ap->host;
+ int rc;
+ extern int slept;
+
+ if (slept) {
+ printk("ahci_error_handler: Resuming...\n");
+ rc =ahci_pci_device_resume(my_pdev);
+ printk("ahci: bad %d\n", rc);
+
+ printk("ahci_error_handler: Device resumed?\n");
+ }
+
if (!(ap->pflags & ATA_PFLAG_FROZEN)) {
/* restart engine */
ahci_stop_engine(ap);
@@ -1945,7 +1959,7 @@ static int ahci_pci_device_resume(struct
if (rc)
return rc;

- if (pdev->dev.power.power_state.event == PM_EVENT_SUSPEND) {
+ if (1) {
rc = ahci_reset_controller(host);
if (rc)
return rc;
@@ -2179,6 +2193,7 @@ static void ahci_p5wdh_workaround(struct
}
}

+
static int ahci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
{
static int printed_version;
@@ -2190,6 +2205,7 @@ static int ahci_init_one(struct pci_dev
int i, rc;

VPRINTK("ENTER\n");
+ my_pdev = pdev;

WARN_ON(ATA_MAX_QUEUE > AHCI_MAX_CMDS);

@@ -2283,8 +2299,11 @@ static int ahci_init_one(struct pci_dev
ahci_print_info(host);

pci_set_master(pdev);
- return ata_host_activate(host, pdev->irq, ahci_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED,
+
+ rc = ata_host_activate(host, pdev->irq, ahci_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED,
&ahci_sht);
+ pci_save_state(pdev);
+ return rc;
}

static int __init ahci_init(void)

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