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SubjectRe: PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps
Hi,

On 8/25/05, Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Attached below is a patch heavily based on Jon Escombe's patch, but
> implemented as a sysfs attribute as Jens described, with a timeout
> (configurable by module/kernel parameter) to ensure the queue isn't
> stopped forever.
>
> The driver creates a sysfs attribute "/sys/block/hdX/device/freeze",
> which when set (echo 1 >
> /sys/block/hda/device/freeze/sys/block/hda/device/freeze) freezes the
> queue and parks the head on the drive, protecting the drive
> (theoretically) from severe damage, until the drive is thawed (echo 0
> > /sys/block/hda/device/freeze) or a timeout is reached (default 10s).
>
> The patch is meant for usage with the hdaps (hard drive active
> protection system) for Thinkpads, however would also be useful for
> similair systems implemented on powerbooks, and other laptops out
> there.
>
> I've tested it out on my T42p and it seems to work well, but as Jon
> warns this is experimental...
>
> Thanks,
> Yani
>
> Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>

Few comments about the patch below:

diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
@@ -148,6 +148,24 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEDISK

If unsure, say Y.

+if BLK_DEV_IDEDISK
+
+config IDEDISK_FREEZE

Is there any advantage of having it as a config option?

+ bool "Enable IDE DISK Freeze support"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ This will include support for freezing an IDE drive (parking the
+ head, freezing the queue), allowing hard drive protection drivers
+ to park the head quickly and keep it parked. If you don't use such
+ a driver, you can say N here.
+
+ If you say yes here a sysfs attribute "/sys/block/hda/device/freeze"
+ will be created which can be used to freeze/thaw the drive.
+
+ If in doubt, say N.
+
+endif
+
config IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE
bool "Use multi-mode by default"
help
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
//#define DEBUG

#include <linux/config.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#endif /* CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE */

This shouldn't be needed,
<linux/device.h> is already included by <linux/ide.h>.

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
@@ -97,6 +100,158 @@ static struct ide_disk_obj *ide_disk_get
return idkp;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE
+/* IDE Freeze support - park the head and stop the queue,
+ * for hard drive protection systems.
+ * Jon Escombe
+ * Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
+ */
+/* (spins down drive - more obvious for testing) */
+#define STANDBY_IMMEDIATE_ARGS {\
+ 0xe0, \
+ 0x44, \
+ 0x00, \
+ 0x4c, \
+ 0x4e, \
+ 0x55, \
+ 0x00, \
+}
+
+#define UNLOAD_IMMEDIATE_ARGS {\
+ 0xe1, \
+ 0x44, \
+ 0x00, \
+ 0x4c, \
+ 0x4e, \
+ 0x55, \
+ 0x00, \
+}
+
+#define IDE_FREEZE_TIMEOUT_SEC 10
+static int ide_freeze_timeout = IDE_FREEZE_TIMEOUT_SEC;
+module_param(ide_freeze_timeout, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ide_freeze_timeout,
+ "IDE Freeze timeout in seconds. (0<ide_freeze_timeout<65536, default="
+ __MODULE_STRING(IDE_FREEZE_TIMEOUT_SEC) ")");

Please make the interface accept number of seconds (as suggested by Jens)
and remove this module parameter. This way interface will be more flexible
and cleaner. I really don't see any advantage in doing "echo 1 > ..." instead
of "echo x > ..." (Pavel, please explain).

+static void freeze_expire(unsigned long data);
+static struct timer_list freeze_timer =
+ TIMER_INITIALIZER(freeze_expire, 0, 0);

There needs to be a timer per device not a global one
(it works for a current special case of T42 but sooner
or later we will hit this problem).
+static ssize_t ide_freeze_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf){
+ ide_drive_t *drive = to_ide_device(dev);
+ int queue_stopped =
+ test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags);
+
+ return snprintf(buf, 10, "%u\n", queue_stopped);
+}
+
+void ide_end_freeze_rq(struct request *rq)
+{
+ struct completion *waiting = rq->waiting;
+ u8 *argbuf = rq->buffer;
+
+ /* Spinlock is already acquired */
+ if (argbuf[3] == 0xc4) {
+ blk_stop_queue(rq->q);
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_end_freeze_rq(): Head parked\n");
+ }
+ else
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_end_freeze_rq(): Head not parked\n");
+
+ complete(waiting);
+}
+
+static int ide_freeze_drive(ide_drive_t *drive)
+{
+ DECLARE_COMPLETION(wait);
+ struct request rq;
+ int error = 0;
+
+ /* STANDBY IMMEDIATE COMMAND (testing) */
+ /* u8 argbuf[] = STANDBY_IMMEDIATE_ARGS; */
+
+ /* UNLOAD IMMEDIATE COMMAND */
+ u8 argbuf[] = UNLOAD_IMMEDIATE_ARGS;
+
+ /* Check we're not already frozen */
+ if(blk_queue_stopped(drive->queue)){
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_freeze_drive: Queue already stopped\n");
+ return error;
+ }
+
+ memset(&rq, 0, sizeof(rq));
+
+ ide_init_drive_cmd(&rq);
+
+ rq.flags = REQ_DRIVE_TASK;
+ rq.buffer = argbuf;
+ rq.waiting = &wait;
+ rq.end_io = ide_end_freeze_rq;
+
+ error = ide_do_drive_cmd(drive, &rq, ide_next);
+ wait_for_completion(&wait);
+ rq.waiting = NULL;
+
+ if(error)
+ printk(KERN_ERR "ide_freeze_drive: Error sending command to drive %s: %d\n",
+ drive->name, error);
+ else{
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_freeze_drive: Queue stopped\n");
+
+ freeze_timer.data = (unsigned long) drive;
+ mod_timer(&freeze_timer, jiffies+(ide_freeze_timeout*HZ));
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_freeze_drive: Timer (re)initialized to %ds
timeout\n",
+ ide_freeze_timeout);
+ }
+ return error;
+}
+
+static void ide_thaw_drive(ide_drive_t *drive)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ if (!blk_queue_stopped(drive->queue))
+ {
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_thaw_drive(): Queue not stopped\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+ blk_start_queue(drive->queue);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_thaw_drive(): Queue started\n");
+ del_timer(&freeze_timer);
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "ide_thaw_drive: Timer stopped\n");
+}
queue handling should be done through block layer helpers
(as described in Jens' email) - we will need them for libata too.

+static void freeze_expire(unsigned long data)
+{
+ ide_drive_t *drive = (ide_drive_t *) data;
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "freeze_expire(): Freeze timer timeout, thawing...\n");
+ ide_thaw_drive(drive);
+}
+
+static ssize_t ide_freeze_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count){
+ ide_drive_t *drive = to_ide_device(dev);
+ int freeze = 0;
+ int error = 0;
+
+ freeze = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+
+ if(freeze)
+ error = ide_freeze_drive(drive);
+ else
+ ide_thaw_drive(drive);
+
+ return error ? error : count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(freeze, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, ide_freeze_show,
+ ide_freeze_store);
sorry but this needs to be CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR, see below

+#endif /* CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE */
+
static void ide_disk_release(struct kref *);
static void ide_disk_put(struct ide_disk_obj *idkp)
@@ -1034,6 +1189,10 @@ static int ide_disk_remove(struct device
struct ide_disk_obj *idkp = drive->driver_data;
struct gendisk *g = idkp->disk;

+ #ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE
+ device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_freeze);
+ #endif /* CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE */
+
At this time attribute can still be in use (because refcounting is done
on drive->gendev), you need to add "disk" class to ide-disk driver
(drivers/scsi/st.c looks like a good example how to do it).

ide_cacheflush_p(drive);

ide_unregister_subdriver(drive, idkp->driver);
@@ -1248,6 +1407,10 @@ static int ide_disk_probe(struct device
} else
drive->attach = 1;
+ #ifdef CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE
+ device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_freeze);
+ #endif /* CONFIG_IDEDISK_FREEZE */
+
g->minors = 1 << PARTN_BITS;
strcpy(g->devfs_name, drive->devfs_name);
g->driverfs_dev = &drive->gendev;
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,16 @@ static void ide_do_request (ide_hwgroup_
}

/*
+ * Don't accept a request when the queue is stopped
+ * (unless we are resuming from suspend)
+ */
+ if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &drive->queue->queue_flags) &&
!blk_pm_resume_request(rq)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: queue is stopped!\n", drive->name);
+ hwgroup->busy = 0;
+ break;
+ }

IMO this should also be handled by block layer
which has all needed information, Jens?

While at it: I think that sysfs support should be moved to block layer (queue
attributes) and storage driver should only need to provide queue_freeze_fn
and queue_thaw_fn functions (similarly to cache flush support). This should
be done now not later because this stuff is exposed to the user-space.

+ /*
* Sanity: don't accept a request that isn't a PM request
* if we are currently power managed. This is very important as
* blk_stop_queue() doesn't prevent the elv_next_request()
@@ -1661,6 +1671,9 @@ int ide_do_drive_cmd (ide_drive_t *drive
where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT;
rq->flags |= REQ_PREEMPT;
}
+ if (action == ide_next)
+ where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT;
+
__elv_add_request(drive->queue, rq, where, 0);
ide_do_request(hwgroup, IDE_NO_IRQ);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
Why is this needed?


Overall, very promising work!

Thanks,
Bartlomiej
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