[Precise SRU][PULL] fix Marvell SATA controller hang
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Mar 25 18:30:32 UTC 2013
SRU Justification
Impact:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 causes the system to be hung after running command udevadm info --attribute-walk --path=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/ata1/ata_port/ata1 | sed -n 's/ ATTR{\(.*\)}=="\(.*\)"/A: \1=\2/p'
for sata controller. Sata controller in question is Marvel 9125
Issue can be reproduce by running checkbox certification on Atom cartridge with MArvell sata controller.
There is patch provided by MArvell and submitted upstream but not yet accepted.
Here are the discussions happened so far.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2232391/
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg20596.html
Canonical can fix in kernel once patch has been accepted upstream. Patch details are as follows
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/20678
Test Case:
See above.
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The following changes since commit f50fbb1c473d9242eea0936744e0f629ea4b6245:
UBUNTU: SAUCE: Revert "[PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: xen/pv-spinlock: Never enable interrupts in xen_spin_lock_slow()" (2013-03-25 08:24:48 -0400)
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kamal/ubuntu-precise.git marvell-sata
for you to fetch changes up to ee9c1e4813586568fe4c02d09203604fc438ee70:
UBUNTU: SAUCE: PCI: fix system hang issue of Marvell SATA host controller (2013-03-25 11:23:33 -0700)
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Xiangliang Yu (2):
UBUNTU: SAUCE: PCI: define macro for marvell vendor ID
UBUNTU: SAUCE: PCI: fix system hang issue of Marvell SATA host controller
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
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