[Quantal SRU][PULL] fix Marvell SATA controller hang
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Mar 25 18:30:42 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 7a8612c419ba2bb12e8c4cbfb2c6cebdf183badd:
brcmsmac: fix mismatch in number of custom regulatory rules (2013-03-20 06:25:07 -0600)
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kamal/ubuntu-quantal.git marvell-sata
for you to fetch changes up to 399161011d4d9d63c7f0b31e4bc7e730e9d71828:
UBUNTU: SAUCE: PCI: fix system hang issue of Marvell SATA host controller (2013-03-25 11:18:30 -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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