libATA Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. libata Driver API

struct ata_port_operations

Disable ATA port

Post-IDENTIFY device configuration

Set PIO/DMA mode

Taskfile read/write

PIO data read/write

ATA command execute

Per-cmd ATAPI DMA capabilities filter

Read specific ATA shadow registers

Write specific ATA shadow register

Select ATA device on bus

Private tuning method

Control PCI IDE BMDMA engine

High-level taskfile hooks

Exception and probe handling (EH)

Hardware interrupt handling

SATA phy read/write

Init and shutdown

3. Error handling

Origins of commands

How commands are issued

How commands are processed

How commands are completed

ata_scsi_error()

Problems with the current EH

4. libata Library

ata_link_next — link iteration helper

ata_dev_next — device iteration helper

atapi_cmd_type — Determine ATAPI command type from SCSI opcode

ata_tf_to_fis — Convert ATA taskfile to SATA FIS structure

ata_tf_from_fis — Convert SATA FIS to ATA taskfile

ata_pack_xfermask — Pack pio, mwdma and udma masks into xfer_mask

ata_unpack_xfermask — Unpack xfer_mask into pio, mwdma and udma masks

ata_xfer_mask2mode — Find matching XFER_* for the given xfer_mask

ata_xfer_mode2mask — Find matching xfer_mask for XFER_*

ata_xfer_mode2shift — Find matching xfer_shift for XFER_*

ata_mode_string — convert xfer_mask to string

ata_dev_classify — determine device type based on ATA-spec signature

ata_id_string — Convert IDENTIFY DEVICE page into string

ata_id_c_string — Convert IDENTIFY DEVICE page into C string

ata_id_xfermask — Compute xfermask from the given IDENTIFY data

ata_pio_need_iordy — check if iordy needed

ata_do_dev_read_id — default ID read method

ata_cable_40wire — return 40 wire cable type

ata_cable_80wire — return 80 wire cable type

ata_cable_unknown — return unknown PATA cable.

ata_cable_ignore — return ignored PATA cable.

ata_cable_sata — return SATA cable type

ata_dev_pair — return other device on cable

sata_set_spd — set SATA spd according to spd limit

ata_timing_cycle2mode — find xfer mode for the specified cycle duration

ata_do_set_mode — Program timings and issue SET FEATURES - XFER

ata_wait_after_reset — wait for link to become ready after reset

sata_link_debounce — debounce SATA phy status

sata_link_resume — resume SATA link

sata_link_scr_lpm — manipulate SControl IPM and SPM fields

ata_std_prereset — prepare for reset

sata_link_hardreset — reset link via SATA phy reset

sata_std_hardreset — COMRESET w/o waiting or classification

ata_std_postreset — standard postreset callback

ata_std_qc_defer — Check whether a qc needs to be deferred

ata_sg_init — Associate command with scatter-gather table.

ata_qc_complete — Complete an active ATA command

ata_qc_complete_multiple — Complete multiple qcs successfully

sata_scr_valid — test whether SCRs are accessible

sata_scr_read — read SCR register of the specified port

sata_scr_write — write SCR register of the specified port

sata_scr_write_flush — write SCR register of the specified port and flush

ata_link_online — test whether the given link is online

ata_link_offline — test whether the given link is offline

ata_host_suspend — suspend host

ata_host_resume — resume host

ata_host_alloc — allocate and init basic ATA host resources

ata_host_alloc_pinfo — alloc host and init with port_info array

ata_slave_link_init — initialize slave link

ata_host_start — start and freeze ports of an ATA host

ata_host_init — Initialize a host struct

ata_host_register — register initialized ATA host

ata_host_activate — start host, request IRQ and register it

ata_host_detach — Detach all ports of an ATA host

ata_pci_remove_one — PCI layer callback for device removal

ata_msleep — ATA EH owner aware msleep

ata_wait_register — wait until register value changes

5. libata Core Internals

ata_dev_phys_link — find physical link for a device

ata_force_cbl — force cable type according to libata.force

ata_force_link_limits — force link limits according to libata.force

ata_force_xfermask — force xfermask according to libata.force

ata_force_horkage — force horkage according to libata.force

ata_rwcmd_protocol — set taskfile r/w commands and protocol

ata_tf_read_block — Read block address from ATA taskfile

ata_build_rw_tf — Build ATA taskfile for given read/write request

ata_read_native_max_address — Read native max address

ata_set_max_sectors — Set max sectors

ata_hpa_resize — Resize a device with an HPA set

ata_dump_id — IDENTIFY DEVICE info debugging output

ata_exec_internal_sg — execute libata internal command

ata_exec_internal — execute libata internal command

ata_do_simple_cmd — execute simple internal command

ata_pio_mask_no_iordy — Return the non IORDY mask

ata_dev_read_id — Read ID data from the specified device

ata_dev_configure — Configure the specified ATA/ATAPI device

ata_bus_probe — Reset and probe ATA bus

sata_print_link_status — Print SATA link status

sata_down_spd_limit — adjust SATA spd limit downward

sata_set_spd_needed — is SATA spd configuration needed

ata_down_xfermask_limit — adjust dev xfer masks downward

ata_wait_ready — wait for link to become ready

ata_dev_same_device — Determine whether new ID matches configured device

ata_dev_reread_id — Re-read IDENTIFY data

ata_dev_revalidate — Revalidate ATA device

glob_match — match a text string against a glob-style pattern

ata_is_40wire — check drive side detection

cable_is_40wire — 40/80/SATA decider

ata_dev_xfermask — Compute supported xfermask of the given device

ata_dev_set_xfermode — Issue SET FEATURES - XFER MODE command

ata_dev_set_feature — Issue SET FEATURES - SATA FEATURES

ata_dev_init_params — Issue INIT DEV PARAMS command

ata_sg_clean — Unmap DMA memory associated with command

atapi_check_dma — Check whether ATAPI DMA can be supported

ata_sg_setup — DMA-map the scatter-gather table associated with a command.

swap_buf_le16 — swap halves of 16-bit words in place

ata_qc_new — Request an available ATA command, for queueing

ata_qc_new_init — Request an available ATA command, and initialize it

ata_qc_free — free unused ata_queued_cmd

ata_qc_issue — issue taskfile to device

ata_phys_link_online — test whether the given link is online

ata_phys_link_offline — test whether the given link is offline

ata_dev_init — Initialize an ata_device structure

ata_link_init — Initialize an ata_link structure

sata_link_init_spd — Initialize link->sata_spd_limit

ata_port_alloc — allocate and initialize basic ATA port resources

ata_finalize_port_ops — finalize ata_port_operations

ata_port_detach — Detach ATA port in prepration of device removal

6. libata SCSI translation/emulation

ata_std_bios_param — generic bios head/sector/cylinder calculator used by sd.

ata_scsi_unlock_native_capacity — unlock native capacity

ata_scsi_slave_config — Set SCSI device attributes

ata_scsi_slave_destroy — SCSI device is about to be destroyed

ata_scsi_change_queue_depth — SCSI callback for queue depth config

ata_scsi_queuecmd — Issue SCSI cdb to libata-managed device

ata_scsi_simulate — simulate SCSI command on ATA device

ata_sas_port_alloc — Allocate port for a SAS attached SATA device

ata_sas_port_start — Set port up for dma.

ata_sas_port_stop — Undo ata_sas_port_start

ata_sas_port_init — Initialize a SATA device

ata_sas_port_destroy — Destroy a SATA port allocated by ata_sas_port_alloc

ata_sas_slave_configure — Default slave_config routine for libata devices

ata_sas_queuecmd — Issue SCSI cdb to libata-managed device

ata_get_identity — Handler for HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl

ata_cmd_ioctl — Handler for HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl

ata_task_ioctl — Handler for HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl

ata_scsi_qc_new — acquire new ata_queued_cmd reference

ata_dump_status — user friendly display of error info

ata_to_sense_error — convert ATA error to SCSI error

ata_gen_ata_sense — generate a SCSI fixed sense block

atapi_drain_needed — Check whether data transfer may overflow

ata_scsi_start_stop_xlat — Translate SCSI START STOP UNIT command

ata_scsi_flush_xlat — Translate SCSI SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command

scsi_6_lba_len — Get LBA and transfer length

scsi_10_lba_len — Get LBA and transfer length

scsi_16_lba_len — Get LBA and transfer length

ata_scsi_verify_xlat — Translate SCSI VERIFY command into an ATA one

ata_scsi_rw_xlat — Translate SCSI r/w command into an ATA one

ata_scsi_translate — Translate then issue SCSI command to ATA device

ata_scsi_rbuf_get — Map response buffer.

ata_scsi_rbuf_put — Unmap response buffer.

ata_scsi_rbuf_fill — wrapper for SCSI command simulators

ata_scsiop_inq_std — Simulate INQUIRY command

ata_scsiop_inq_00 — Simulate INQUIRY VPD page 0, list of pages

ata_scsiop_inq_80 — Simulate INQUIRY VPD page 80, device serial number

ata_scsiop_inq_83 — Simulate INQUIRY VPD page 83, device identity

ata_scsiop_inq_89 — Simulate INQUIRY VPD page 89, ATA info

ata_scsiop_noop — Command handler that simply returns success.

ata_msense_caching — Simulate MODE SENSE caching info page

ata_msense_ctl_mode — Simulate MODE SENSE control mode page

ata_msense_rw_recovery — Simulate MODE SENSE r/w error recovery page

ata_scsiop_mode_sense — Simulate MODE SENSE 6, 10 commands

ata_scsiop_read_cap — Simulate READ CAPACITY[ 16] commands

ata_scsiop_report_luns — Simulate REPORT LUNS command

atapi_xlat — Initialize PACKET taskfile

ata_scsi_find_dev — lookup ata_device from scsi_cmnd

ata_scsi_pass_thru — convert ATA pass-thru CDB to taskfile

ata_get_xlat_func — check if SCSI to ATA translation is possible

ata_scsi_dump_cdb — dump SCSI command contents to dmesg

ata_scsi_offline_dev — offline attached SCSI device

ata_scsi_remove_dev — remove attached SCSI device

ata_scsi_media_change_notify — send media change event

ata_scsi_hotplug — SCSI part of hotplug

ata_scsi_user_scan — indication for user-initiated bus scan

ata_scsi_dev_rescan — initiate scsi_rescan_device

7. ATA errors and exceptions

Exception categories

HSM violation

ATA/ATAPI device error (non-NCQ / non-CHECK CONDITION)

ATAPI device CHECK CONDITION

ATA device error (NCQ)

ATA bus error

PCI bus error

Late completion

Unknown error (timeout)

Hotplug and power management exceptions

EH recovery actions

Clearing error condition

Reset

Reconfigure transport

8. ata_piix Internals

ich_pata_cable_detect — Probe host controller cable detect info

piix_pata_prereset — prereset for PATA host controller

piix_set_piomode — Initialize host controller PATA PIO timings

do_pata_set_dmamode — Initialize host controller PATA PIO timings

piix_set_dmamode — Initialize host controller PATA DMA timings

ich_set_dmamode — Initialize host controller PATA DMA timings

piix_check_450nx_errata — Check for problem 450NX setup

piix_init_one — Register PIIX ATA PCI device with kernel services

9. sata_sil Internals

sil_set_mode — wrap set_mode functions

sil_dev_config — Apply device/host-specific errata fixups

10. Thanks