libata: implement HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS and apply it to WD My Book

3Gbps is often much more prone to transmission failures.  It's usually
okay to let EH handle speed down after transmission failures but some
WD My Book drives completely shutdown after certain transmission
failures and after it only power cycling can revive them.  Combined
with the fact that external drives often end up with cable assembly
which is longer than usual and more likely to have intervening gender,
this makes these drives very likely to shutdown under certain
configurations virtually rendering them unusable.

This patch implements HOARKGE_1_5_GBPS and applies it to WD My Book
such that 1.5Gbps is forced once the device is identified.

Please take a look at the following bz for related reports.

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9913

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 3c5965d56c47..9fbf0595f3d4 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -2232,6 +2232,40 @@ retry:
         return rc;
 }
 
+static int ata_do_link_spd_horkage(struct ata_device *dev)
+{
+        struct ata_link *plink = ata_dev_phys_link(dev);
+        u32 target, target_limit;
+
+        if (!sata_scr_valid(plink))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS)
+                target = 1;
+        else
+                return 0;
+
+        target_limit = (1 << target) - 1;
+
+        /* if already on stricter limit, no need to push further */
+        if (plink->sata_spd_limit <= target_limit)
+                return 0;
+
+        plink->sata_spd_limit = target_limit;
+
+        /* Request another EH round by returning -EAGAIN if link is
+         * going faster than the target speed.  Forward progress is
+         * guaranteed by setting sata_spd_limit to target_limit above.
+         */
+        if (plink->sata_spd > target) {
+                ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_INFO,
+                               "applying link speed limit horkage to %s\n",
+                               sata_spd_string(target));
+                return -EAGAIN;
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
 static inline u8 ata_dev_knobble(struct ata_device *dev)
 {
         struct ata_port *ap = dev->link->ap;
@@ -2322,6 +2356,10 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device *dev)
                 return 0;
         }
 
+        rc = ata_do_link_spd_horkage(dev);
+        if (rc)
+                return rc;
+
         /* let ACPI work its magic */
         rc = ata_acpi_on_devcfg(dev);
         if (rc)
@@ -4223,6 +4261,9 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist [] = {
         /* Devices that do not need bridging limits applied */
         { "MTRON MSP-SATA*",            NULL,   ATA_HORKAGE_BRIDGE_OK, },
 
+        /* Devices which aren't very happy with higher link speeds */
+        { "WD My Book",                 NULL,   ATA_HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS, },
+
         /* End Marker */
         { }
 };
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 9dcefee5843c..5d87bc09a1f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ enum {
         ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_MOD16_DMA = (1 << 11), /* use ATAPI DMA for commands
                                                     not multiple of 16 bytes */
         ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN = (1 << 12),  /* firwmare update warning */
+        ATA_HORKAGE_1_5_GBPS    = (1 << 13),    /* force 1.5 Gbps */
 
          /* DMA mask for user DMA control: User visible values; DO NOT
             renumber */