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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-07-15 04:11:41 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2009-07-28 21:07:09 -0400
commit5920dadfb4aec6c1372c5570e71bcd3b4837e63c (patch)
tree4d4e1c5a47d23b1578bfde9ab223b07206a77c64 /include/linux
parent7d084d96fdf1d791cb171da57efc1ca89d68dd6c (diff)
libata: accept late unlocking of HPA
On certain configurations, HPA isn't or can't be unlocked during probing but it somehow ends up unlocked afterwards. In the following thread, the problem can be reliably reproduced after resuming from STR. The BIOS turns on HPA during boot but forgets to do it during resume. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/858310 This patch updates libata revalidation such that it considers native n_sectors. If the device size has increased to match native n_sectors, it's assumed that HPA has been unlocked involuntarily and the device is recognized as the same one. This should be fairly safe while nicely working around the problem. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christof Warlich <christof@warlich.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/libata.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 79b6d7fd4ac2..e5b6e33c6571 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ struct ata_device {
589#endif 589#endif
590 /* n_sector is CLEAR_BEGIN, read comment above CLEAR_BEGIN */ 590 /* n_sector is CLEAR_BEGIN, read comment above CLEAR_BEGIN */
591 u64 n_sectors; /* size of device, if ATA */ 591 u64 n_sectors; /* size of device, if ATA */
592 u64 n_native_sectors; /* native size, if ATA */
592 unsigned int class; /* ATA_DEV_xxx */ 593 unsigned int class; /* ATA_DEV_xxx */
593 unsigned long unpark_deadline; 594 unsigned long unpark_deadline;
594 595