Macbook Pro SATA Drives not seen in 2.6.25

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To: <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 11:27 pm

I have a couple of Macbook Pros. The newest one -- based on the Penryn
Core 2 Duo with ICH8 -- will not boot with any 2.6.25 kernel (I have
tried 2.6.25 and 2.6.25.3). It boots fine with 2.6.24.7 as well as with
2.6.26-rc2. It also boots fine with 2.6.22. I have specific reasons why
I need to run 2.6.25 so I would appreciate any help here. It seems the
SATA drives are detected, but then for each partition during bootup I see:

ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

The same 2.6.25 kernels boot fine on my older Macbook Pro with ICH7 and
I do not see this error.

I would be happy to run a git bisect to help identify the issue, but if
this problem is already well understood (hey, it's fixed in 2.6.26), I
can think of better ways to spend my time.

Please copy me personally on any replies. I often subscribe to the list
but it's too much mail right now. Thanks in advance.

Andrew

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To: AndrewL733 <AndrewL733@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-ide@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 4:06 am

The below went into 2.6.25.1 (or will do so). It looks hopful. Can

We do that as a matter of course. Or we should...

From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

commit cb6716c879ecf49e2af344926c6a476821812061 upstream

On certain configurations (certain macbooks), even though all the
conditions for SIDPR access described in the datasheet are met,
actually reading those registers just returns 0 and have no effect on
write. Verify SIDPR is actually working before enabling it.

This is reported by Ryan Roth in bz#10512.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roth <ryan.roth@ch2m.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/ata/ata_piix.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
@@ -1531,6 +1531,8 @@ static void __devinit piix_init_sidpr(st
{
struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(host->dev);
struct piix_host_priv *hpriv = host->private_data;
+ struct ata_device *dev0 = &host->ports[0]->link.device[0];
+ u32 scontrol;
int i;

/* check for availability */
@@ -1549,6 +1551,29 @@ static void __devinit piix_init_sidpr(st
return;

hpriv->sidpr = pcim_iomap_table(pdev)[PIIX_SIDPR_BAR];
+
+ /* SCR access via SIDPR doesn't work on some configurations.
+ * Give it a test drive by inhibiting power save modes which
+ * we'll do anyway.
+ */
+ scontrol = piix_sidpr_read(dev0, SCR_CONTROL);
+
+ /* if IPM is already 3, SCR access is probably working. Don't
+ * un-inhibit power save modes as BIOS might have inhibited
+ * them for a reason.
+ */
+ if ((scontrol & 0xf00) != 0x300) {
+ scontrol |= 0x300;
+ piix_sidpr_write(dev0, SCR_CONTROL, scontrol);
+ scontrol = piix_sidpr_read(dev0, SCR_CONTROL);
+
+ if ((scontrol & 0xf00) != 0x300) {
+ dev_printk(KERN_INFO, host->dev, "SCR access via "
+ "SIDPR is available but ...

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-ide@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 8:59 am

Thanks. The patch below solves the problem. I applied it to 2.6.25.3.

Andrew

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-ide@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 7:36 am

Thanks, Andrew. Another question below.

Do you mean 2.6.25.4 ? As I said above, I already tried 2.6.25.3

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To: AndrewL733 <AndrewL733@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-ide@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 1:44 pm

umm, yes, it was part of the "2.6.25.4 review" series.
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