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>
This commit is contained in:
Tejun Heo
2009-01-29 20:31:32 +09:00
committed by Jeff Garzik
parent 9913ff8abf
commit 99cf610aa4
3 changed files with 19 additions and 10 deletions

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@@ -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: