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From: Jeff Garzik on 10 Jun 2010 16:10

Two sata_sil24 fixes...

1) Add some memory barriers. Gets ARM working.

2) Fix a longstanding but ultimately harmless over-memset.


Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus

to receive the following updates:

drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Catalin Marinas (1):
sata_sil24: Use memory barriers before issuing commands

Dan Carpenter (1):
sata_sil24: memset() overflow

diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c b/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
index 70b58fe..be7726d 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
@@ -622,6 +622,11 @@ static int sil24_exec_polled_cmd(struct ata_port *ap, int pmp,
irq_enabled = readl(port + PORT_IRQ_ENABLE_SET);
writel(PORT_IRQ_COMPLETE | PORT_IRQ_ERROR, port + PORT_IRQ_ENABLE_CLR);

+ /*
+ * The barrier is required to ensure that writes to cmd_block reach
+ * the memory before the write to PORT_CMD_ACTIVATE.
+ */
+ wmb();
writel((u32)paddr, port + PORT_CMD_ACTIVATE);
writel((u64)paddr >> 32, port + PORT_CMD_ACTIVATE + 4);

@@ -865,7 +870,7 @@ static void sil24_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
} else {
prb = &cb->atapi.prb;
sge = cb->atapi.sge;
- memset(cb->atapi.cdb, 0, 32);
+ memset(cb->atapi.cdb, 0, sizeof(cb->atapi.cdb));
memcpy(cb->atapi.cdb, qc->cdb, qc->dev->cdb_len);

if (ata_is_data(qc->tf.protocol)) {
@@ -895,6 +900,11 @@ static unsigned int sil24_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
paddr = pp->cmd_block_dma + tag * sizeof(*pp->cmd_block);
activate = port + PORT_CMD_ACTIVATE + tag * 8;

+ /*
+ * The barrier is required to ensure that writes to cmd_block reach
+ * the memory before the write to PORT_CMD_ACTIVATE.
+ */
+ wmb();
writel((u32)paddr, activate);
writel((u64)paddr >> 32, activate + 4);

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