[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 06/60] libata: increase the timeout when setting transfer mode

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 00:57:12 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt26 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>

commit d531be2ca2f27cca5f041b6a140504999144a617 upstream.

I have a ST4000DM000 disk. If Linux is booted while the disk is spun down,
the command that sets transfer mode causes the disk to spin up. The
spin-up takes longer than the default 5s timeout, so the command fails and
timeout is reported.

Fix this by increasing the timeout to 15s, which is enough for the disk to
spin up.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 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 0dd99e7..83c95c1 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -4537,7 +4537,8 @@ static unsigned int ata_dev_set_xfermode(struct ata_device *dev)
 	else /* In the ancient relic department - skip all of this */
 		return 0;
 
-	err_mask = ata_exec_internal(dev, &tf, NULL, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, 0);
+	/* On some disks, this command causes spin-up, so we need longer timeout */
+	err_mask = ata_exec_internal(dev, &tf, NULL, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, 15000);
 
 	DPRINTK("EXIT, err_mask=%x\n", err_mask);
 	return err_mask;
-- 
1.9.1





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