On AVR32, all parameters beyond the 5th are passed on the stack. System
calls don't use the stack -- they borrow a callee-saved register
instead. This means that syscalls that take 6 parameters must be called
through a stub that pushes the last parameter on the stack.

This patch adds a stub for sync_file_range syscall on AVR32
architecture.  Tested with uClibc snapshot.
Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

This patch implements the generic_find_next_le_bit bit function for AVR32
architecture. This is used by EXT4 file system.
Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

Ignore Kernel binaries, kernel/vmlinux.lds and a log file.
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

The #ifdef surrounding the code adding the mmc controller had a typo,
causing it to be compiled even when mmc was supposed to be disabled.
Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

this patch turns the netdev timeout WARN_ON_ONCE() into a WARN_ONCE(),
so that the device and driver names are inside the warning message.
This helps automated tools like kerneloops.org to collect the data
and do statistics, as well as making it more likely that humans
cut-n-paste the important message as part of a bugreport.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: fixed uninitialized counter in struct kmem_cache_node

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] VR41xx: unsigned irq cannot be negative

This fill fix the following regression list entry:

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11276
Subject		: build error: CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y causes gcc 4.2 to do stupid things
Submitter	: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date		: 2008-08-06 17:18 (38 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121804329014332&w=4
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/353
Handled-By	: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/364

with what I believe is a better fix than the one referenced
in the regression entry above.

These PNP header interfaces try to work in such a way that
you can reference some of them even if PNP is not enabled,
and the compiler was expected to optimize everything away.

Which is mostly fine, except that there was one interface
for which there was not provided an inline "NOP" implementation.

Once we add that, all of these compile failures cannot handle
any more.

pnp: Provide NOP inline implementation of pnp_get_resource() when !PNP

Fixes kernel bugzilla #11276.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes kernel regression for 2.6.27-rc in
      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11547
The change to split 8390 into old isa and non-isa versions
overlooked this driver.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit bc19d6e0, which as
Larry Finger reports causes the radio LED on his system to no longer
respond to rfkill switch events.
Reported-by: NLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Requested-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Initialized total objects atomic for the node in init_kmem_cache_node.  The
uninitialized value was ruining the stats in /proc/slabinfo.
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  crypto: talitos - Avoid consecutive packets going out with same IV

The SEC's h/w IV out implementation DMAs the trailing encrypted payload
block of the last encryption to ctx->iv.  Since the last encryption may
still be pending completion, we can sufficiently prevent successive
packets from being transmitted with the same IV by xoring with sequence
number.

Also initialize alg_list earlier to prevent oopsing on a failed probe.
Signed-off-by: NKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee Nipper <lee.nipper@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

There are a few commits that misencoded my name (or used "oe" instead of
"ö").  So add a correct version to .mailmap.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] Fix PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS for ARM
  [ARM] 5247/1: tosa: SW_EAR_IN support
  [ARM] 5246/1: tosa: add proper clock alias for tc6393xb clock
  [ARM] 5245/1: Fix warning about unused return value in drivers/pcmcia
  [ARM] OMAP: Fix MMC device data
  imx serial: fix rts handling for non imx1 based hardware
  imx serial: set RXD mux bit on i.MX27 and i.MX31
  i.MX serial: fix init failure
  pcm037: add rts/cts support for serial port

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h
  sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking
  ata: duplicate variable sparse warning

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: re-add debug prints for unmodified BARs
  PCI: fix pciehp_free_irq()
  PCI Hotplug: fakephp: fix deadlock... again
  PCI: Fix printk warnings in setup-bus.c
  PCI: Fix printk warnings in probe.c
  PCI/iommu: blacklist DMAR on Intel G31/G33 chipsets

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  niu: panic on reset
  netlink: fix overrun in attribute iteration
  [Bluetooth] Fix regression from using default link policy
  ath9k: Assign seq# when mac80211 requests this

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc: Fix user_regset 'n' field values.
  sparc64: Fix PCI error interrupt registry on PSYCHO.
  sparc32: Fix function signature of of_bus_sbus_get_flags().
  sparc64: Fix interrupt register calculations on Psycho and Sabre.

- 8-bit interface mode never worked properly.  The only adapter I have
  which supports the 8b mode (the Jmicron) had some problems with its
  clock wiring and they discovered it only now.  We also discovered that
  ProHG media is more sensitive to the ordering of initialization
  commands.

- Make the driver fall back to highest supported mode instead of always
  falling back to serial.  The driver will attempt the switch to 8b mode
  for any new MSPro card, but not all of them support it.  Previously,
  these new cards ended up in serial mode, which is not the best idea
  (they work fine with 4b, after all).

- Edit some macros for better conformance to Sony documentation
Signed-off-by: NAlex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Herton Krzesinski reports that the error-checking changes in
04ebd4ae ("block/ioctl.c and
fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition") cause his
buggy USB camera to no longer mount.  "The camera is an Olympus X-840.
The original issue comes from the camera itself: its format program
creates a partition with an off by one error".

Buggy devices happen.  It is better for the kernel to warn and to proceed
with the mount.
Reported-by: NHerton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix the section mismatch warning generated by the incorrect naming of
s3c24xx_spidrv which should be s3c24xx_spi_driver:

WARNING: drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.o(.data+0x4):
  Section mismatch in reference from the variable s3c24xx_spidrv
  to the (unknown reference) .exit.text:(unknown)
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When suspending the system with atmel_lcdfb enabled, I sometimes see
this:

	atmel_lcdfb atmel_lcdfb.0: FIFO underflow 0x10

Which can be explained by the fact that we're not stopping the LCD
controller and its DMA engine when suspending, we're just gating the
clocks to them.

There's another potential issue which may be harder to trigger but
much more nasty: If we gate the clocks at _just_ the right moment,
e.g. when the DMA engine is doing a bus transaction, we may cause the
DMA engine to violate the system bus protocol and cause a lockup.

Avoid these issues by shutting down the LCD controller before entering
suspend (and restarting it when resuming). This prevents the underrun
from happening in the first place, and prevents whatever nastiness is
happening when the bus clock stops in the middle of a DMA transfer.
Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: NNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If you are on ia64 and you modprobe xpc then modprobe -r xpc, you
immediately get a panic.  xpc depends on xp which depends on gru for a
symbol.  That symbol is only used when we are running on UV hardware.

Currently, the GRU driver detects we are not on UV hardware and does no
initializing.  It does not do the same check when unloading.  As a result,
the gru driver attempts to tear down stuff that was not setup.

This is a simple two-line workaround to get us through this release.  Once
2.6.28 is opened, we need to rework the symbols that xp is depending on
from gru so the gru driver can properly fail to load when hardware is not
available.
Signed-off-by: NRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It should be linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The iterator for_each_zone_zonelist() uses a struct zoneref *z cursor when
scanning zonelists to keep track of where in the zonelist it is.  The
zoneref that is returned corresponds to the the next zone that is to be
scanned, not the current one.  It was intended to be treated as an opaque
list.

When the page allocator is scanning a zonelist, it marks elements in the
zonelist corresponding to zones that are temporarily full.  As the
zonelist is being updated, it uses the cursor here;

  if (NUMA_BUILD)
        zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);

This is intended to prevent rescanning in the near future but the zoneref
cursor does not correspond to the zone that has been found to be full.
This is an easy misunderstanding to make so this patch corrects the
problem by changing zoneref cursor to be the current zone being scanned
instead of the next one.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fixes two DMA bugs in the pxa2xx_spi driver.  The first bug is in all
versions of this driver; the second was introduced in the 2.6.20 kernel,
and prevents using the driver with chips like m25p16 flash (which can
issue large DMA reads).

 1. Zero length transfers are permitted for use to insert timing,
    but pxa2xx_spi.c will fail if this is requested in DMA mode.
    Fixed by using programmed I/O (PIO) mode for such transfers.

 2. Transfers larger than 8191 are not permitted in DMA mode.  A
    test for length rejects all large transfers regardless of DMA
    or PIO mode.  Worked around by rejecting only large transfers
    with DMA mapped buffers, and forcing all other transfers
    larger than 8191 to use PIO mode.  A rate limited warning is
    issued for DMA transfers forced to PIO mode.

This patch should apply to all kernels back to and including 2.6.20;
it was test patched against 2.6.20.  An additional patch would be
required for older kernels, but those versions are very buggy anyway.
Signed-off-by: NNed Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu>
Cc: Vernon Sauder <vernoninhand@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fixes several chipselect bugs in the pxa2xx_spi driver.  These bugs are in
all versions of this driver and prevent using it with chips like m25p16
flash.

 1. The spi_transfer.cs_change flag is handled too early:
    before spi_transfer.delay_usecs applies, thus making the
    delay ineffective at holding chip select.

 2. spi_transfer.delay_usecs is ignored on the last transfer
    of a message (likewise not holding chipselect long enough).

 3. If spi_transfer.cs_change is set on the last transfer, the
    chip select is always disabled, instead of the intended
    meaning: optionally holding chip select enabled for the
    next message.

Those first three bugs were fixed with a relocation of delays
and chip select de-assertions.

 4. If a message has the cs_change flag set on the last transfer,
    and had the chip select stayed enabled as requested (see 3,
    above), it would not have been disabled if the next message is
    for a different chip.  Fixed by dropping chip select regardless
    of cs_change at end of a message, if there is no next message
    or if the next message is for a different chip.

This patch should apply to all kernels back to and including 2.6.20;
it was test patched against 2.6.20.  An additional patch would be
required for older kernels, but those versions are very buggy anyway.
Signed-off-by: NNed Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu>
Cc: Vernon Sauder <vernoninhand@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Error out on transfer length != multiple of bytes per word with -EINVAL.
Fixes a buffer overrun crash if length < bytes per word.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Acked-by: NJoakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit a61f5345 (spi_mpc83xx clockrate fixes) broke clockrate calculation
for low speeds.  SPMODE_DIV16 should be set if the divider is higher than
64, not only if the divider gets clipped to 1024.

Furthermore, the clipping check was off by a factor 16 as well.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A "Quicklists:          0 kB" line has just started appearing in
/proc/meminfo, but most architectures (including x86) don't have
them configured, so #ifdef it, like the highmem lines.

And those architectures which do have quicklists configured are
using them for page tables: so let's place it next to PageTables.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes:

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb0896 #68
  ---------------------------------------------
  touch/6855 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c02262f5>] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c0226c00>] bfs_create+0x45/0x187

  other info that might help us debug this:
  2 locks held by touch/6855:
   #0:  (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#5){--..}, at: [<c018ad13>] do_filp_open+0x10b/0x62f
   #1:  (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c0226c00>] bfs_create+0x45/0x187

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 6855, comm: touch Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb0896 #68
   [<c013e769>] validate_chain+0x458/0x9f4
   [<c013bece>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
   [<c013f36b>] __lock_acquire+0x666/0x6e0
   [<c013f440>] lock_acquire+0x5b/0x77
   [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c
   [<c06aab74>] mutex_lock_nested+0xbc/0x234
   [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c
   [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c
   [<c02262f5>] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c
   [<c0226257>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x18c
   [<c01925e1>] generic_delete_inode+0x94/0xfe
   [<c019265d>] generic_drop_inode+0x12/0x12f
   [<c0191b7e>] iput+0x4b/0x4e
   [<c0226d1e>] bfs_create+0x163/0x187
   [<c0188b42>] vfs_create+0xa6/0x114
   [<c018adb5>] do_filp_open+0x1ad/0x62f
   [<c0107cdc>] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96
   [<c06ac309>] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x3c
   [<c019379e>] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9
   [<c06ae2f4>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xab
   [<c019379e>] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9
   [<c0180391>] do_sys_open+0x42/0xb8
   [<c041d564>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
   [<c0180449>] sys_open+0x1e/0x26
   [<c01038bd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31
   =======================

The problem is that we don't unlock the bfs->lock mutex before calling
iput (we do in the other cases).
Signed-off-by: NEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the
documentation.  This patch adds it.
Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to
the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

akpm: these have no callers at this time, but they shall soon, so let's
get them right.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NHiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Print parent directory name as well.

The aim is to catch non-creation of parent directory when proc_mkdir will
return NULL and all subsequent registrations go directly in /proc instead
of intended directory.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Fixed insane printk string while at it.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and
had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border.
Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives):

  # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 > /dev/null
  dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error
  0+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
  # dmesg
  ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
  ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
  ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in
  res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error)
  ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
  ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
  ata1: EH complete
  ...

After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused
by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access.
Following part is the code in question:

  === include/linux/ata.h ===
  static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block)
  {
    /* check the ending block number */
    return ((block + n_block - 1) < ((u64)1 << 28)) && (n_block <= 256);
  }

HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff,
n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives,
including other HGST drives are not that strict, through.

>From the ATA specification:
(http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf)

  8.15.29  Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors
  This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number
  of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall
  be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh.

So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request
as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum
value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe.

The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do
that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and
the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe
this fix works reliably.

Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck
by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver.

  "28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length"
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/b531b8bce8745fb78825740f00580e23

Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004,
through I have not checked out exact portion of the code.
Signed-off-by: NTaisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>