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[PATCH] ide: option to disable cache flushes for buggy drives

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Some drives claim they support cache flushing, but get seriously
confused if you try. Add this option to be able to boot with
barriers enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Jens Axboe 2006-07-28 08:54:59 +02:00
parent 64821324ca
commit 361934849e
3 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
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@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static void update_ordered(ide_drive_t *drive)
* not available so we don't need to recheck that.
*/
capacity = idedisk_capacity(drive);
barrier = ide_id_has_flush_cache(id) &&
barrier = ide_id_has_flush_cache(id) && !drive->noflush &&
(drive->addressing == 0 || capacity <= (1ULL << 28) ||
ide_id_has_flush_cache_ext(id));

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drivers/ide/ide.c
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@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
const char *hd_words[] = {
"none", "noprobe", "nowerr", "cdrom", "serialize",
"autotune", "noautotune", "minus8", "swapdata", "bswap",
"minus11", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
"noflush", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
unit = s[2] - 'a';
hw = unit / MAX_DRIVES;
unit = unit % MAX_DRIVES;
@ -1578,6 +1578,9 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
case -10: /* "bswap" */
drive->bswap = 1;
goto done;
case -11: /* noflush */
drive->noflush = 1;
goto done;
case -12: /* "remap" */
drive->remap_0_to_1 = 1;
goto done;

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include/linux/ide.h
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@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ typedef struct ide_drive_s {
u8 waiting_for_dma; /* dma currently in progress */
u8 unmask; /* okay to unmask other irqs */
u8 bswap; /* byte swap data */
u8 noflush; /* don't attempt flushes */
u8 dsc_overlap; /* DSC overlap */
u8 nice1; /* give potential excess bandwidth */