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When a SATA DAS enclosure is connected behind a Thunderbolt PCIe
switch, hot-unplugging the whole enclosure causes pciehp to tear down
the PCI hierarchy before the SCSI layer issues SYNCHRONIZE CACHE and
START STOP UNIT for the disks.
libata still queues these commands and the AHCI driver tries to access
the HBA registers even though the PCI channel is already offline. This
results in a series of timeouts and error recovery attempts, e.g.:
[ 824.778346] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: pciehp: Slot(14): Link Down
[ 891.612720] ata8.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 902.876501] ata8.00: qc timeout after 10000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 934.107998] ata8.00: qc timeout after 30000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 936.206431] sd 7:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronize Cache(10) failed:
Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
...
[ 1006.298356] ata1.00: qc timeout after 5000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 1017.561926] ata1.00: qc timeout after 10000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 1048.791790] ata1.00: qc timeout after 30000 msecs (cmd 0xec)
[ 1050.890035] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronize Cache(10) failed:
Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
With this patch applied, the same hot-unplug looks like:
[ 59.965496] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: pciehp: Slot(14): Link Down
[ 60.002502] sd 7:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronize Cache(10) failed:
Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
...
[ 60.103050] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronize Cache(10) failed:
Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
In this test setup with two disks, the hot-unplug sequence shrinks from
about 226 seconds (~3.8 minutes) between the Link Down event and the
last SYNCHRONIZE CACHE failure to under a second. Without this patch the
total delay grows roughly with the number of disks, because each disk
gets its own SYNCHRONIZE CACHE and qc timeout series.
If the underlying PCI device is already gone, these commands cannot
succeed anyway. Avoid issuing them by introducing
ata_adapter_is_online(), which checks pci_channel_offline() for
PCI-based hosts. It is used from ata_scsi_find_dev() to return NULL,
causing the SCSI layer to fail new commands with DID_BAD_TARGET
immediately, and from ata_qc_issue() to bail out before touching the
HBA registers.
Since such failures would otherwise trigger libata error handling,
ata_adapter_is_online() is also consulted from ata_scsi_port_error_handler().
When the adapter is offline, libata skips ap->ops->error_handler(ap) and
completes error handling using the existing path, rather than running
a full EH sequence against a dead adapter.
With this change, SYNCHRONIZE CACHE and START STOP UNIT commands
issued during hot-unplug fail quickly once the PCI channel is offline,
without qc timeout spam or long libata EH delays.
Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Henry Tseng <henrytseng@qnap.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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