From: Kyrylo Biryuk <illofspeed@gmail.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dlemoal@kernel.org, cassel@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4] ata: libahci: re-enable FBS after error handling on a port multiplier
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:39:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012103917.389-1-illofspeed@gmail.com> (raw)
ahci_do_softreset() disables FBS before resetting a device behind a port
multiplier, as required by AHCI 1.2 section 9.3.9, and re-enables it only
when that softreset succeeds. If it fails, for example because a
hot-plugged drive is still spinning up ("softreset failed (device not
ready)"), EH escalates to a hardreset of the PMP link, and nothing turns
FBS back on: only ahci_pmp_attach() does, which runs at the next boot.
The port keeps working with command-based switching until then.
Seen on a Marvell 88SE9235 (1b4b:9235) with Marvell 88SM9705 port
multipliers (1b4b:9705, in a Synology DX1222 expansion unit): after
hot-plugging a drive, the kernel logged "FBS is disabled" followed by
"softreset failed (device not ready)" and a PMP hardreset, and never
"FBS is enabled" again (twice, on two different ports).
At the end of ahci_error_handler(), re-enable FBS if a PMP is still
attached and FBS is supported but disabled.
Fixes: 89dafa20f3da ("ahci: disabled FBS prior to issuing software reset")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Kyrylo Biryuk <illofspeed@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Changes in v4 (Niklas Cassel):
- dropped the ata_port_info() print; ahci_enable_fbs() already logs
"FBS is enabled"
- moved the testing details out of the commit message
Changes in v3: author name only. Changes in v2: author address only.
Tested with the patch built as an out-of-tree libahci module for 7.2.6
(the stock ahci module binds to it, symbol CRCs unchanged) on the
88SE9235 + 88SM9705 setup from the commit message, which is passed
through (VFIO) to a KVM guest. Hot-plugging a drive into a free port of
the multiplier logged "FBS is disabled", "softreset failed (device not
ready)" and a PMP hardreset, then "FBS is enabled" from
ahci_enable_fbs(). Afterwards two other drives behind the same
multiplier read 259 + 259 MB/s in parallel (O_DIRECT, 4 MiB blocks),
against 268 MB/s for one drive alone, so their commands overlap again.
The two earlier occurrences without the patch were on ata8 and ata10 of
the same controller; this test was on ata7.
drivers/ata/libahci.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci.c b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
index 08ab56e9556..5441fbf543c 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
@@ -2233,6 +2233,21 @@ void ahci_error_handler(struct ata_port *ap)
sata_pmp_error_handler(ap);
+ /*
+ * ahci_do_softreset() turns FBS off before resetting a fan-out link
+ * and turns it back on only if that reset succeeds. When it fails
+ * (e.g. a hot-plugged drive is still spinning up), EH escalates to a
+ * PMP hardreset, which never re-enables FBS, so the port would keep
+ * command-based switching until the PMP is attached again (reboot).
+ * Restore FBS once recovery is done and the PMP is still attached.
+ */
+ if (sata_pmp_attached(ap) && ata_dev_enabled(ap->link.device)) {
+ struct ahci_port_priv *pp = ap->private_data;
+
+ if (pp->fbs_supported && !pp->fbs_enabled)
+ ahci_enable_fbs(ap);
+ }
+
if (!ata_dev_enabled(ap->link.device))
hpriv->stop_engine(ap);
}
--
2.43.0
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