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Commit: 4f34337b1f6f7c1e0f2e3c938eb9eadd340593fe
Parent: 50a99018787aa1aed812e09ad5b27647475656a0
Author: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 8 14:30:31 2007 +0100
Committer: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Fri Oct 12 14:55:32 2007 -0400
libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up
Remembered this while doing auditing and code review versus the specs
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index d2141a0..c0f3c78 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -5906,6 +5906,10 @@ int ata_flush_cache(struct ata_device *dev)
else
cmd = ATA_CMD_FLUSH;
+ /* This is wrong. On a failed flush we get back the LBA of the lost
+ sector and we should (assuming it wasn't aborted as unknown) issue
+ a further flush command to continue the writeback until it
+ does not error */
err_mask = ata_do_simple_cmd(dev, cmd);
if (err_mask) {
ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_ERR, "failed to flush cache\n");
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