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authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>2007-08-08 14:30:31 +0100
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-10-12 14:55:32 -0400
commit4f34337b1f6f7c1e0f2e3c938eb9eadd340593fe (patch)
tree71ab64c2bf8addb4b6de341957b03ac0ee84915f /drivers/ata
parent50a99018787aa1aed812e09ad5b27647475656a0 (diff)
libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up
Remembered this while doing auditing and code review versus the specs Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-core.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index d2141a04fff..c0f3c78a2be 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -5906,6 +5906,10 @@ int ata_flush_cache(struct ata_device *dev)
else
cmd = ATA_CMD_FLUSH;
+ /* This is wrong. On a failed flush we get back the LBA of the lost
+ sector and we should (assuming it wasn't aborted as unknown) issue
+ a further flush command to continue the writeback until it
+ does not error */
err_mask = ata_do_simple_cmd(dev, cmd);
if (err_mask) {
ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_ERR, "failed to flush cache\n");