In a real AHCI device, several S/ATA registers are mirrored or shadowed
within the AHCI register set. These registers are not updated
synchronously for each read access, but are instead updated after a
Device-to-Host Register FIS packet is received. The D2H FIS contains
the values from these registers on the device.
In QEMU, by reaching directly into the device to grab these bits before
they are "sent," we may introduce race conditions where unexpected
values are present "before they are sent" which could cause issues for
some guests, particularly if an attempt is made to read the PxTFD
register prior to enabling the port, where incorrect values will be read.
This patch also addresses the boot-time values for the PxTFD and PxSIG
registers to bring them in line with the AHCI 1.3 specification.
Lastly, several fields (PxTFD, PxSIG and PxSACT) are read-only,
and any attempts to write to them should be ignored.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1408643079-30675-6-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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