Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

[Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>]

On Thu 28. Feb - 22:05:53, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Holger Macht wrote:
> > On Thu 28. Feb - 18:35:06, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> Holger Macht wrote:
> >>> The hotplug handler is only called if the device is actually inside the
> >>> dock station. If it is not, nothing will happen. I hope that I got your
> >>> question right?
> >> Yes, right.
> >>
> >>> However, if this would be helpful, it would be easy to add something like
> >>> a am_I_on_dock_station?(...) function to the dock driver.
> >> Hmm.. as long as the event is only delivered when the device is actually
> >> connected behind dock, I think it's okay.
> > 
> > The dock driver also export a is_dock_device(acpi_handle) function, which
> > could be used to make more fine-grained decisions, but it shouldn't be
> > needed here.
> > 
> >> Does the attached patch fix the previous undock problem?  It now
> >> explicitly tells libata EH to detach the notified devices on
> >> EJECT_REQUEST and wait for EH to complete such that control is returned
> >> to ACPI after all notified devices are actually detached.
> > 
> > No it does not. Apparently, it freezes faster (from 1 second down to
> > immediately). Before, it just froze when someone (in this case HAL) tried
> > to access the device. The "echo 1 > undock" call does not even return, so
> > it might have introduced another problem.
> 
> The code should be in generally right direction.  Can you be persuaded
> into tracking down what's going on?

I had a quick glance with adding some printk's. Now I got a different
behaviour once. System did not freeze, but were certainly confused. The
last thing which got printed to messages was exactly before
spin_lock_irqsave(ap->lock, flags); at the beginning of ata_acpi_handle_hotplug(...)

The printk immediately after this call didn't come through anymore (with
being able to use the system for a short time afterwards).

Maybe this helps.

For further debugging, I would have to setup remote debugger, but I doubt
I get around to do this for the next couple of days or even 1-2 weeks.

I could test new patches, of course.

Regards,
	Holger

P.S.: You'll need [1] patch for testing, otherwise the hotplug handler is
never called.

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3b5fee5952ff7eb6ff7a64247a01040b8b331b74