ata: ahci: work around lost interrupts on Marvell 88SE61xx

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ahci_single_level_irq_intr() services the ports first and clears the
global HOST_IRQ_STAT afterwards, as recommended by AHCI 1.1 section
10.6.2.  The Marvell 88SE6111/6121/6145 family stops reporting interrupts
for a port when HOST_IRQ_STAT is cleared while PxIS still holds bits:
PxIS keeps its content, HOST_IRQ_STAT reads back as 0, the port is never
looked at again, and the command in flight only ends in a timeout.

Measured on a Seagate Blackarmor NAS440 (Marvell 88F6281 Kirkwood,
88SE6121 rev B2 behind PCIe) by polling the AHCI registers from userspace
while an IDENTIFY was outstanding:

  t=303.046  irqs 127  PxIS 0x00000000  PxCI 0x00000001
             IDENTIFY issued
  t=303.057  irqs 128  PxIS 0x00000020  PxCI 0x00000000
             CI cleared, DPS set, one interrupt taken
             ... PxIS stays 0x00000020, HOST_IRQ_STAT stays 0 ...
  t~308.05   qc timeout after 5000 msecs

The command had completed - PxCI was clear and PxIS had DPS set - so
ahci_qc_complete() would have completed it.  It never got the chance
because the handler read HOST_IRQ_STAT as 0 and returned IRQ_NONE.

Marvell's own driver for these chips clears the two registers in the
opposite order and says so ("clear global before channel"), and
ahci_xgene handles its broken edge latch the same way.  Since the
reordering costs at most one spurious interrupt per valid one on
conforming controllers, do it in a private interrupt handler selected for
board_ahci_mv instead of changing libahci for everyone.

With this applied, SATA-2 and SATA-3 disks work at 3.0 Gbps on the
88SE6121 without the drive-side 1.5 Gbps jumper that was needed before.
Time from link up to a successful IDENTIFY:

  WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0  port 0    7 ms  (never identified before)
  WDC WD3202ABYS-01B7A0  port 1   28 ms
  WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0   port 1  200 ms  (3 TB, HPA detection ok)

Only the 88SE6121 was tested; board_ahci_mv also covers the 88SE6145,
which Marvell's driver treats identically.

Fixes: cd70c26617 ("[libata] AHCI: Add support for Marvell AHCI-like chips (initially 6145)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/db6b48b7-d69a-564b-24f0-75fbd6a9e543@noerenberg.de/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216094
Signed-off-by: Hajo Noerenberg <hajo-linux-ide@noerenberg.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pali Rohar <pali@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260831124303.920391-1-hajo-linux-ide@noerenberg.de
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>

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