>> Mark Lord wrote:
>>> Tejun, I've added PMP to sata_mv, and am now trying to get it
>>> to work with a Marvell PM attached.

> >>> And the behaviour I see is very bizarre.

>>> After hard+soft resets, the PM signature is found,
>>> and libata interrogates the PM registers.
>>>
>>> It successfully reads register 0, and then register 1.
>>> But all subsequent registers read out (incorrectly) as zeros.
...

This behavior has been confirmed by Marvell with a SATA analyzer.
The Marvell port-multiplier apparently likes to see clean HOB
information when accessing PMP registers.

Since sata_mv uses PIO shadow register access, this doesn't happen
automatically, as it might in a more purely FIS-based driver (eg. ahci).

One way to fix this is to flag these commands with ATA_TFLAG_LBA48,
forcing libata to write out the HOB fields with known (zero) values.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>