Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] libsas and drivers: NCQ error handling

[John Garry]

On 05/10/2022 22:28, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> Do you know why it fails to read the log?
> Can you read the NCQ Command Error log using ATA16 passthrough commands?
>
> sudo sg_sat_read_gplog -d --log=0x10 /dev/sdc
>
> The first byte is the last NCQ tag (in hex) that failed.

Please see other reply.

> I tried your patch, and it looks good:

Thanks, good to know.

> [ 6656.228131] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x460000 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> [ 6656.252759] ata5.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> [ 6656.271554] ata5.00: cmd 61/00:00:00:d8:8a/04:00:ce:03:00/40 tag 17 ncq dma 524288 out
>                          res 41/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> [ 6656.309308] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [ 6656.316403] ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
> [ 6656.322300] ata5.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> [ 6656.330871] ata5.00: cmd 61/00:00:00:dc:8a/04:00:ce:03:00/40 tag 18 ncq dma 524288 out
>                          res 41/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> [ 6656.356295] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [ 6656.362931] ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
> [ 6656.368897] ata5.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> [ 6656.377471] ata5.00: cmd 61/00:00:00:d4:8a/04:00:ce:03:00/40 tag 22 ncq dma 524288 out
>                          res 43/04:00:ff:d7:8a/00:00:ce:03:00/40 Emask 0x400 (NCQ error) <F>
> [ 6656.403149] ata5.00: status: { DRDY SENSE ERR }
> [ 6656.410624] ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
>
> However, since this is a change from the existing behavior of this driver,
> this could go as a separate patch, and does not need to delay this series.

ok, but I am not sure about this series for 6.1 since it's now, so I 
will just wait.

> I also think that we should do a similar patch for sas_ata_task_done():
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> index d35c9296f738..648d0693ceee 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static void sas_ata_task_done(struct sas_task *task)
>                          }
>   
>                          dev->sata_dev.fis[3] = 0x04; /* status err */
> -                       dev->sata_dev.fis[2] = ATA_ERR;
> +                       dev->sata_dev.fis[2] = ATA_ERR | ATA_DRDY;
>                  }
>          }
>
> To avoid all SAS errors from being reported as HSM errors.

Yeah, I tend to agree. I can put that change in another patch.

Thanks,
John