sata_mv delayed eh handling
Introduce a new "delayed error handling" mechanism in sata_mv, to enable us to eventually deal with multiple simultaneous NCQ failures on a single host link when a PM is present. This involves a port flag (MV_PP_FLAG_DELAYED_EH) to prevent new commands being queued, and a pmp bitmap to indicate which pmp links had NCQ errors. The new mv_pmp_error_handler() uses those values to invoke ata_eh_analyze_ncq_error() on each failed link, prior to freezing the port and passing control to sata_pmp_error_handler(). This is based upon a strategy suggested by Tejun. For now, we just implement the delayed mechanism. The next patch in this series will add the multiple-NCQ EH code to take advantage of it. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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