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

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 08:42:38 UTC 2023


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 at gentoo.org>
> ---
>  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


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