libata: clear dev->ering in smarter way

dev->ering used to be cleared together with the rest of ata_device in
ata_dev_init() which is called whenever a probing event occurs.
dev->ering is about to be used to track probing failures so it needs
to remain persistent over multiple porbing events.  This patch
achieves this by doing the following.

* Instead of CLEAR_OFFSET, define CLEAR_BEGIN and CLEAR_END and only
  clear between BEGIN and END.  ering is moved after END.  The split
  of persistent area is to allow hotter items remain at the head.

* ering is explicitly cleared on ata_dev_disable() and when device
  attach succeeds.  So, ering is persistent throug a device's life
  time (unless explicitly cleared of course) and also through periods
  inbetween disablement of an attached device and successful detection
  of the next one.

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

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index aafe82bf5e2e..90092c1aae53 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -1194,6 +1194,11 @@ void ata_dev_disable(struct ata_device *dev)
         ata_acpi_on_disable(dev);
         ata_down_xfermask_limit(dev, ATA_DNXFER_FORCE_PIO0 | ATA_DNXFER_QUIET);
         dev->class++;
+
+        /* From now till the next successful probe, ering is used to
+         * track probe failures.  Clear accumulated device error info.
+         */
+        ata_ering_clear(&dev->ering);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2765,6 +2770,8 @@ static int ata_eh_revalidate_and_attach(struct ata_link *link,
                                                      readid_flags, dev->id);
                         switch (rc) {
                         case 0:
+                                /* clear error info accumulated during probe */
+                                ata_ering_clear(&dev->ering);
                                 new_mask |= 1 << dev->devno;
                                 break;
                         case -ENOENT: