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IDE: Make taskfile interface more robust wrt unexpected end-of-command
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:26:24 +0000 (21:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:26:24 +0000 (21:26 -0700)
commit6c3c3158a81d6a92d335dd27ad9eb43f6b4c664b
treefc740e2fff9c0f3d9e75848b6e106f4251dc7ec7
parentd5eee405723eedbd621275e045ac9b36f668c39f
IDE: Make taskfile interface more robust wrt unexpected end-of-command

Now that we handle all the special commands using REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE
rather than using the old REQ_TYPE_ATA_CMD model, we need to also
emulate the lack of full taskfile data that comes with the old command
model (ie when commands are generated with the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl
rather than using the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK[FILE] ioctls).

In particular, this means that we should handle command completion the
more relaxed way that the old drive_cmd_intr() code did.  It allows
commands to finish early even if they don't use up all the data that we
thought we had for them.

This fixes a regression seen by Anders Eriksson where some SMART
commands sent by smartd would cause a boot-time system hang on his
machine because the IDE command handling code didn't realize that the
command had completed.

Tested-by: Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c