----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg KH" <[email protected]>
> To: "CAI Qian" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], "David Milburn" <[email protected]>, "Jeff 
> Garzik" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 9:24:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_svw: check DMA start bit before reset
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:59:57PM -0500, CAI Qian wrote:
> > sata_svw: check DMA start bit before reset
> > 
> > If kdump is triggered with pending IO, controller may not respond
> > causing
> > kdump to fail.
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=133032255424658&w=2
> > 
> > During error recovery ata_do_dev_read_id never completes due hang
> > in mmio_insw.
> > 
> > ata_do_dev_read_id
> >  ata_sff_data_xfer
> >   ioread16_rep
> >    mmio_insw
> > 
> > if DMA start bit is cleared before reset, PIO command is successful
> > and kdump succeeds.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Milburn <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Upstream-ID: b03e66a6be91f8389fcd902ab6c1563db1c9c06b
> > Stable-trees: 3.0.x, 3.4.x, 3.6.x
> > Signed-off-by: CAI Qian <[email protected]>
> 
> Any reason why you sent this twice?
Did I? Oh, It may because that it took a day after I received a confirmation
for my subscription to the ML for the first time. Therefore, I thought
that the first time I sent this patch was lost (never reached due to
the subscription delay), so sent it again.

CAI Qian
> 
> greg k-h
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