From 075affcbe01d4d7cefcd0e30a98df1253bcf8d92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:52:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools. Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives. Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0" to disable HPA on /dev/hda). v2: Fix ->resume HPA support. While at it: - remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Cc: Robert Hancock Cc: Frans Pop Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" Cc: Al Viro Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov [patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop] Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/ide/ide.txt | 2 ++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++----- drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 8 +++++++- drivers/ide/ide.c | 10 ++++++++++ include/linux/ide.h | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt index 0c78f4b1d9d9..e77bebfa7b0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt @@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ Other kernel parameters for ide_core are: * "noflush=[interface_number.device_number]" to disable flush requests +* "nohpa=[interface_number.device_number]" to disable Host Protected Area + * "noprobe=[interface_number.device_number]" to skip probing * "nowerr=[interface_number.device_number]" to ignore the WRERR_STAT bit diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a19f021f081a..e58c91ca802c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -835,11 +835,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc - .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .noprobe .nowerr .cdrom - .chs .ignore_cable are additional options - See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. - - idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed + .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr + .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c index 61a6d3546221..3d92c9d54d47 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c @@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ static void idedisk_check_hpa(ide_drive_t *drive) capacity, sectors_to_MB(capacity), set_max, sectors_to_MB(set_max)); + if ((drive->dev_flags & IDE_DFLAG_NOHPA) == 0) + return; + set_max = ide_disk_hpa_set_capacity(drive, set_max, lba48); if (set_max) printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Host Protected Area disabled.\n", @@ -430,8 +433,11 @@ static u64 ide_disk_set_capacity(ide_drive_t *drive, u64 capacity) goto out; set = ide_disk_hpa_set_capacity(drive, set, lba48); - if (set) + if (set) { + /* needed for ->resume to disable HPA */ + drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_NOHPA; return set; + } out: return drive->capacity64; } diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index 92c9b90931e7..16d056939f9f 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ static unsigned int ide_noflush; module_param_call(noflush, ide_set_dev_param_mask, NULL, &ide_noflush, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(noflush, "disable flush requests for a device"); +static unsigned int ide_nohpa; + +module_param_call(nohpa, ide_set_dev_param_mask, NULL, &ide_nohpa, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(nohpa, "disable Host Protected Area for a device"); + static unsigned int ide_noprobe; module_param_call(noprobe, ide_set_dev_param_mask, NULL, &ide_noprobe, 0); @@ -281,6 +286,11 @@ static void ide_dev_apply_params(ide_drive_t *drive, u8 unit) drive->name); drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_NOFLUSH; } + if (ide_nohpa & (1 << i)) { + printk(KERN_INFO "ide: disabling Host Protected Area for %s\n", + drive->name); + drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_NOHPA; + } if (ide_noprobe & (1 << i)) { printk(KERN_INFO "ide: skipping probe for %s\n", drive->name); drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_NOPROBE; diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h index e96ace12872a..45dce3b4c88c 100644 --- a/include/linux/ide.h +++ b/include/linux/ide.h @@ -475,6 +475,8 @@ enum { IDE_DFLAG_NICE1 = (1 << 5), /* device is physically present */ IDE_DFLAG_PRESENT = (1 << 6), + /* disable Host Protected Area */ + IDE_DFLAG_NOHPA = (1 << 7), /* id read from device (synthetic if not set) */ IDE_DFLAG_ID_READ = (1 << 8), IDE_DFLAG_NOPROBE = (1 << 9),