Re: Force IDE cache flush on shutdown

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, May 06 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:58:10AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:> On Thu, May 06 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Alan discovered the hard way that the current 2.6 IDE code doesn't do a
> > > cache-flush on shutdown. The patch below forward ports this from 2.4. In
> > > addition it fixes a bug where the ->wcache value only got determined for
> > > removable disks not all disks. (that fix is from Alan, all other bugs are
> > > mine ;)
> > 
> > Yeah that's a dumb bug, I fixed that in the barrier patches as well (but
> > forgot to send it in).
> > 
> > Maybe you could send that in seperately first, it needs to go in
> > regardless.
> 
> 
> ok below are the uncontended bits
> 1) calculate wcache for non-removable disks too
> 2) flush the cache BEFORE unlocking the door on removable media,
>    otherwise you have a small race with the human..
> 
> it makes sense for these to go in separate; I'm working on the shutdown hook
> now (and testing which is the fun part ;)
> 
> diff -urNp linux-1110/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c linux-1120/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
> --- linux-1110/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
> +++ linux-1120/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
> @@ -1729,11 +1733,11 @@ static ide_driver_t idedisk_driver = {
>  
>  static int idedisk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
> +	u8 cf;
>  	ide_drive_t *drive = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
>  	drive->usage++;
>  	if (drive->removable && drive->usage == 1) {
>  		ide_task_t args;
> -		u8 cf;
>  		memset(&args, 0, sizeof(ide_task_t));
>  		args.tfRegister[IDE_COMMAND_OFFSET] = WIN_DOORLOCK;
>  		args.command_type = IDE_DRIVE_TASK_NO_DATA;
> @@ -1746,18 +1750,18 @@ static int idedisk_open(struct inode *in
>  		 */
>  		if (drive->doorlocking && ide_raw_taskfile(drive, &args, NULL))
>  			drive->doorlocking = 0;
> -		drive->wcache = 0;
> -		/* Cache enabled ? */
> -		if (drive->id->csfo & 1)
> -		drive->wcache = 1;
> -		/* Cache command set available ? */
> -		if (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & (1<<5))
> -			drive->wcache = 1;
> -		/* ATA6 cache extended commands */
> -		cf = drive->id->command_set_2 >> 24;
> -		if((cf & 0xC0) == 0x40 && (cf & 0x30) != 0)
> -			drive->wcache = 1;
>  	}
> +	drive->wcache = 0;
> +	/* Cache enabled ? */
> +	if (drive->id->csfo & 1)
> +		drive->wcache = 1;
> +	/* Cache command set available ? */
> +	if (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & (1<<5))
> +		drive->wcache = 1;
> +	/* ATA6 cache extended commands */
> +	cf = drive->id->command_set_2 >> 24;
> +	if((cf & 0xC0) == 0x40 && (cf & 0x30) != 0)
> +		drive->wcache = 1;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1779,6 +1783,7 @@ static int ide_cacheflush_p(ide_drive_t 
>  static int idedisk_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>  {
>  	ide_drive_t *drive = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
> +	ide_cacheflush_p(drive);
>  	if (drive->removable && drive->usage == 1) {
>  		ide_task_t args;
>  		memset(&args, 0, sizeof(ide_task_t));
> @@ -1788,7 +1793,6 @@ static int idedisk_release(struct inode 
>  		if (drive->doorlocking && ide_raw_taskfile(drive, &args, NULL))
>  			drive->doorlocking = 0;
>  	}
> -	ide_cacheflush_p(drive);
>  	drive->usage--;
>  	return 0;
>  }

Looks good to me.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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