Re: [PATCH 2/2] ata: libata-core: Apply ATI NCQ horkage to ASPEED as well

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Tue Apr 18 2023 - 04:42:49 EST


Hello!

On 4/18/23 4:17 AM, Patrick McLean wrote:

> We have some machines with ASPEED SATA controllers, and are seeing the same NCQ
> issues that ATI controllers (I am not sure if it's a rebranded ATI controller,
> or they both have some faulty implementation). This NCQ breakage is consistent
> across a few different types of drives.
>
> Instead of maintaining a list of drives that are broken with ASPEED controllers
> as well as ATI, let's just treat ASPEED controllers like ATI ones, and disable
> NCQ on drives that have ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI set on them.
>
> We have been running this patch on several machines for over a week now without
> reproducing an issue that was happening almost daily before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> index 14c17c3bda4e..051492e8e9f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> @@ -2219,7 +2219,8 @@ static int ata_dev_config_ncq(struct ata_device *dev,
> }
>
> if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI &&
> - ata_dev_check_adapter(dev, PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI)) {
> + (ata_dev_check_adapter(dev, PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI) ||
> + ata_dev_check_adapter(dev, PCI_VENDOR_ID_ASPEED))) {

Please align the start of this line with the start of the above
line, so that it doesn't needlessly blend with the below line.

> snprintf(desc, desc_sz, "NCQ (not used)");
> return 0;
> }

MBR, Sergey