On 24/06/2016 17:06, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > When doing DMA request ide/core.c will set s->retry_unit to s->unit in > ide_start_dma. When dma completes ide_set_inactive sets retry_unit to -1. > After that ide_flush_cache runs and fails thanks to blkdebug. > ide_flush_cb calls ide_handle_rw_error which asserts that s->retry_unit > == s->unit. But s->retry_unit is still -1 after previous DMA completion > and flush does not use anything related to retry.
Wouldn't the assertion fail for a PIO read/write too? Perhaps retry_unit should be set to s->unit in ide_transfer_start too. Paolo