- use ATA_SE_EXCHANGED (SError.DIAG.X) bit to detect hot-plug events when
power-management enabled and ATA_SE_PHY_CHANGED (SError.DIAG.N) can't be
trusted;
- on controllers supporting staggered spin-up (SS) put unused channels
into Listen state instead of Off. It should still save some power, but
allow plug-in events to be detected;
- on controllers supporting cold presence detection (CPD), when power
management enabled, use CPD events to detect hot-plug in addition to PHY
events.
- make SATA SIMs announce capabilities to handle SDB with Notification bit;
- make PMP driver honor this SIMs capability;
- make SATA XPT to negotiate and enable this feature for ATAPI devices.
This feature allows supporting SATA ATAPI devices to inform system about
some events happened, that may require attention. In my case this allows
LG GH22LS50 SATA DVR-RW drive to report tray open/close events. Events
reported to CAM in form of AC_SCSI_AEN async. Further they could be used
as a hints for checking device status and reporting media change to upper
layers, for example, via spoiling mechanism of GEOM.
Instead of spinning in a tight loop for up to 15 seconds, polling for device
readiness while it spins up, return reset completion just after PHY reports
"connect well" or 100ms connection timeout. If device was found, use callout
for checking device readiness with 100ms period up to full 31 second timeout.
This fixes system freeze for 5-10 seconds on drives hot plug-in.
active I/O to several disks (copying large file on ZFS) causes timeout after
just a few seconds of run. Single port 88SX6111 seems like not affected.
Skip reading transferred bytes count for these controllers. It works for
88SX6111, but 88SX6145 always returns zero there. Haven't tested others,
but better to be safe.
- SMBus Controller
- SATA Controller
- HD Audio Controller
- Watchdog Controller
Thanks to Seth Heasley (seth.heasley@intel.com) for providing us code.
MFC after 3 days
These controllers consist of two Marvell 88SE9128 6Gbps SATA chips and
PLX PCIe bridge. As result, they seem to be agree to work with ahci(4)
as usual HBAs. The only noticed issue is that RAID BIOS disables all
drive caches during boot, though `camcontrol cmd ...` is able to fix that.
Those who wants RAID functionality can still use closed proprietary driver
from HighPoint site.
MFC after: 1 week
- device initiated power management (some devices support only this way);
- Automatic Partial to Slumber Transition (more power saving);
- DMA auto-activation (expected to slightly improve performance).
More features could be added later, when hardware supports.
With FBS enabled, we have no idea what command caused timeout.
Implement same logic as in siis(4) - wait for other commands
complete or timeout and then give some more time.
- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many drivers.
- Any bus, attached before CAM completed it's boot-time initialization,
will equally join to the process, delaying boot if needed.
- New kern.cam.boot_delay loader tunable should help controllers that
are still unable to register their buses in time (such as slow USB/
PCCard/ CardBus devices), by adding one more event to wait on boot.
- To allow synchronization between different CAM levels, concept of
requests priorities was extended. Priorities now split between several
"run levels". Device can be freezed at specified level, allowing higher
priority requests to pass. For example, no payload requests allowed,
until PMP driver enable port. ATA XPT negotiate transfer parameters,
periph driver configure caching and so on.
- Frozen requests are no more counted by request allocation scheduler.
It fixes deadlocks, when frozen low priority payload requests occupying
slots, required by higher levels to manage theit execution.
- Two last changes were holding proper ATA reinitialization and error
recovery implementation. Now it is done: SATA controllers and Port
Multipliers now implement automatic hot-plug and should correctly
recover from timeouts and bus resets.
- Improve SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without automatic sense
reporting, such as ATAPI or USB. For example, it allows CAM to wait, while
CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.
- Decapitalize diagnostic messages and make them more readable and sensible.
- Teach PMP driver to limit maximum speed on fan-out ports.
- Make boot wait for PMP scan completes, and make rescan more reliable.
- Fix pass driver, to return CCB to user level in case of error.
- Increase number of retries in cd driver, as device may return several UAs.
Limit early revisions from 6Gb/s to 3Gb/s by default, or they negotiate
only 1.5Gbps, when 3Gb/s devices connected.
Add dummy driver for PATA part of these controllers, preventing generic
driver attach them. It causes system freeze when SATA controller used after
PATA was touched.
register, nVidia chipsets have different oppinion, requiring every interrupt
to be acknowledged there.
While there, add interrupt descriptions in multi-vector MSI mode.
causes additional MSIs messages sent if several ports asked for attention
same time. Time window before clearing is not important, as these interrupts
are level triggered by interrupt source.
- Extend XPT-SIM transfer settings control API. Now it allows to report to
SATA SIM number of tags supported by each device, implement ATA mode and
SATA revision negotiation for both SATA and PATA SIMs.
- Make ahci(4) and siis(4) to use submitted maximum tag number, when
scheduling requests. It allows to support NCQ on devices with lower tags
count then controller supports.
- Make PMP driver to report attached devices connection speeds.
- Implement ATA mode negotiation between user settings, device and
controller capabilities.
and Marvell handled. Instead of trying to attach two different drivers to
single device, wrapping each call, make one of them (atajmicron, atamarvell)
attach do device solely, but create child device for AHCI driver,
passing it all required resources. It is quite easy, as none of
resources are shared, except IRQ.
As result, it:
- makes drivers operation more independent and straitforward,
- allows to use new ahci(4) driver with such devices, adding support for
new features, such as PMP and NCQ, same time keeping legacy PATA support,
- will allow to just drop old ataahci driver, when it's time come.
