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libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD.
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Many users are reporting that the Samsung 860 and 870 SSD are having
various issues when combined with AMD/ATI (vendor ID 0x1002)  SATA
controllers and only completely disabling NCQ helps to avoid these
issues.

Always disabling NCQ for Samsung 860/870 SSDs regardless of the host
SATA adapter vendor will cause I/O performance degradation with well
behaved adapters. To limit the performance impact to ATI adapters,
introduce the ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI flag to force disable NCQ
only for these adapters.

Also, two libata.force parameters (noncqati and ncqati) are introduced
to disable and enable the NCQ for the system which equipped with ATI
SATA adapter and Samsung 860 and 870 SSDs. The user can determine NCQ
function to be enabled or disabled according to the demand.

After verifying the chipset from the user reports, the issue appears
on AMD/ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controllers and does not appear on
recent AMD SATA adapters. The vendor ID of ATI should be 0x1002.
Therefore, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_AMD was modified to
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201693
Signed-off-by: Kate Hsuan <hpa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903094411.58749-1-hpa@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Kate Hsuan authored and Jens Axboe committed Sep 3, 2021
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34 changes: 32 additions & 2 deletions drivers/ata/libata-core.c
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Expand Up @@ -2186,6 +2186,25 @@ static void ata_dev_config_ncq_prio(struct ata_device *dev)
dev->flags &= ~ATA_DFLAG_NCQ_PRIO;
}

static bool ata_dev_check_adapter(struct ata_device *dev,
unsigned short vendor_id)
{
struct pci_dev *pcidev = NULL;
struct device *parent_dev = NULL;

for (parent_dev = dev->tdev.parent; parent_dev != NULL;
parent_dev = parent_dev->parent) {
if (dev_is_pci(parent_dev)) {
pcidev = to_pci_dev(parent_dev);
if (pcidev->vendor == vendor_id)
return true;
break;
}
}

return false;
}

static int ata_dev_config_ncq(struct ata_device *dev,
char *desc, size_t desc_sz)
{
Expand All @@ -2204,6 +2223,13 @@ static int ata_dev_config_ncq(struct ata_device *dev,
snprintf(desc, desc_sz, "NCQ (not used)");
return 0;
}

if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI &&
ata_dev_check_adapter(dev, PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI)) {
snprintf(desc, desc_sz, "NCQ (not used)");
return 0;
}

if (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_NCQ) {
hdepth = min(ap->scsi_host->can_queue, ATA_MAX_QUEUE);
dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_NCQ;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3971,9 +3997,11 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist [] = {
{ "Samsung SSD 850*", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM, },
{ "Samsung SSD 860*", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM, },
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI, },
{ "Samsung SSD 870*", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM, },
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI, },
{ "FCCT*M500*", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM, },

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -6128,6 +6156,8 @@ static int __init ata_parse_force_one(char **cur,
{ "ncq", .horkage_off = ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ },
{ "noncqtrim", .horkage_on = ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM },
{ "ncqtrim", .horkage_off = ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM },
{ "noncqati", .horkage_on = ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI },
{ "ncqati", .horkage_off = ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI },
{ "dump_id", .horkage_on = ATA_HORKAGE_DUMP_ID },
{ "pio0", .xfer_mask = 1 << (ATA_SHIFT_PIO + 0) },
{ "pio1", .xfer_mask = 1 << (ATA_SHIFT_PIO + 1) },
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/libata.h
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Expand Up @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ enum {
ATA_HORKAGE_NOTRIM = (1 << 24), /* don't use TRIM */
ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_1024 = (1 << 25), /* Limit max sects to 1024 */
ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_TRIM_128M = (1 << 26), /* Limit max trim size to 128M */
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI = (1 << 27), /* Disable NCQ on ATI chipset */

/* DMA mask for user DMA control: User visible values; DO NOT
renumber */
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