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Kai Makisara 02ae2c0e84 [SCSI] st: integrate st_scsi_kern_execute and st_do_scsi
This integrates st_scsi_kern_execute and st_do_scsi. IOW, it removes
st_scsi_kern_execute. Then st has a single function, st_do_scsi, to
perform SCSI commands.

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:06:33 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori edf69c58c7 [SCSI] st: remove unused frp_sg_current
frp_sg_current in struct st_buffer is always zero. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:02:25 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 1ac63cf5c0 [SCSI] st: remove unused orig_frp_segs
orig_frp_segs in struct st_buffer is always zero. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:02:01 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori f409d6cc68 [SCSI] st: simplify new_tape_buffer
- remove the from_initialization argument, which is always 1. We
always need to use GFP_ATOMIC.

- 'got' valuable is initialized to zero and doesn't change. We don't
need it.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:01:35 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori b3d59115ba [SCSI] st: remove struct scatterlist
This removes the usage of struct scatterlist completely.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:01:15 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 08c9583242 [SCSI] st: kill struct st_buff_fragment
This removes struct st_buff_fragment and use reserved_pages array to
store fragment buffer.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:00:53 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori b3376b4aaa [SCSI] st: remove buf_to_sg
This removes unused buf_to_sg() that the non-dio path used.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 12:00:27 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 6620742f72 [SCSI] st: convert dio path to use st_scsi_execute
This patch converts the dio path (mmap) to use st_scsi_execute. IOW,
it removes scsi_execute_async in the non dio path.

scsi_execute_async has gone! This also remove unused st_sleep_done.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:55:36 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 6d4762678b [SCSI] st: convert non-dio path to use st_scsi_execute
This patch converts the non-dio path (fragment buffer path) to use
st_scsi_execute. IOW, it removes scsi_execute_async in the non-dio
path.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:55:09 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 13b53b4434 [SCSI] st: add st_scsi_execute helper function
st_scsi_execute is a helper function to perform SCSI commands
involving data transfer between user and kernel space (st_read and
st_write).

It's the future plan to combine this with st_scsi_kern_execute helper
function.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:54:45 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori d0e1ae31be [SCSI] st: add struct rq_map_data support
This adds struct rq_map_data and the array of pointers to store
fragment buffers to struct st_buffer.

This patch doesn't remove st_buf_fragment but the latter patch does.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:54:23 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 9c905966c4 [SCSI] st: make all the fragment buffers the same size
This patch simiplifies the fragment buffer management a bit, all the
buffers in the fragment list become the same size. This is necessary
to use the block layer API (sg driver was modified in the same way)
since the block layer API takes the same size page frames instead of
scatter gatter.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-01-02 11:53:19 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori ccc607f6d2 [SCSI] st: convert st_int_ioctl to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in st_int_ioctl with st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:31 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 7a31ec3c1f [SCSI] st: convert get_location to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in get_location (READ_POSITION) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:31 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 18c8701574 [SCSI] st: convert write_mode_page to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in write_mode_page (MODE_SELECT) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:31 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 8ecf0d994a [SCSI] st: convert read_mode_page to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in read_mode_page (MODE_SENSE) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:30 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 52107b2c57 [SCSI] st: convert check_tape to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in check_tape (READ_BLOCK_LIMITS and
MODE_SENSE) with st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:30 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 212cd8bfe1 [SCSI] st: convert st_flush to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in st_flush (WRITE FILEMARKS) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:30 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 39ade4b1ac [SCSI] st: convert cross_eof to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in cross_eof (SPACE) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:30 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 15c920a6dc [SCSI] st: convert do_load_unload to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in do_load_unload (START STOP) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:29 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 3c0bf16c63 [SCSI] st: convert set_location to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in set_location (LOCATE 10) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:29 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 0944a721ba [SCSI] st: convert test_ready to use st_scsi_kern_execute
This replaces st_do_scsi in test_ready (TEST_UNIT_READY) with
st_scsi_kern_execute.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:29 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori ffb4349499 [SCSI] st: add st_scsi_kern_execute helper function
st_scsi_kern_execute is a helper function to perform SCSI commands
synchronously. It supports data transfer with a liner in-kernel buffer
(not scatter gather). st_scsi_kern_execute internally uses
scsi_execute().

The majority of st_do_scsi can be replaced with
st_scsi_kern_execute. This is a preparation for rewriting st_do_scsi
to remove obsolete scsi_execute_async().

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:29 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 4deba245d0 [SCSI] st: move st_request initialization to st_allocate_request form st_do_scsi
This moves st_request initialization code to st_allocate_request()
form st_do_scsi(). This is a preparation for making
st_allocate_request() usable for everyone, not only st_do_scsi().

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:28 -06:00
James Bottomley a02488ed73 [SCSI] st: update to use block timeout
Since we're trying to eliminate struct scsi_device timeout, the tape
driver has to be updated to use the block queue timeout instead.  The
tape use of scsi_device timeout looks to be self consistent, so I don't
think this necessarily fixes any bug, but it has to be done to allow me
to remove the timeout parameter from struct scsi_device.

Acked-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-12-29 11:24:19 -06:00
Al Viro 83ff6fe858 [PATCH] don't mess with file in scsi_nonblockable_ioctl()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:28 -04:00
Al Viro 74f3c8aff3 [PATCH] switch scsi_cmd_ioctl() to passing fmode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:14 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman d73a1a674b device create: scsi: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:44 -07:00
Kai Makisara 786231af0a [SCSI] st: Remove bogus memset
Mike Christie noticed a bogus memset. It can be removed as dead code
since the number of bytes in the driver buffer in fixed block mode is
always a multiple of the tape block size.

Signed-off-by: Kai Mäkisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-26 15:14:47 -04:00
Kai Makisara 626dcb1ee3 [SCSI] st: Move buffer pointer back when data could not be written.
Move buffer pointer back when data could not be written. Bug found by
Mike Christie.

Signed-off-by: Kai Mäkisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-26 15:14:47 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet 2fceef397f Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet b3369c68bf st: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:49 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 24b42566c3 SCSI: fix race in device_create
There is a race from when a device is created with device_create() and
then the drvdata is set with a call to dev_set_drvdata() in which a
sysfs file could be open, yet the drvdata will be NULL, causing all
sorts of bad things to happen.

This patch fixes the problem by using the new function,
device_create_drvdata().  It fixes the problem in all of the scsi
drivers that need it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-20 13:31:56 -07:00
James Bottomley 7d15d6a4dc [SCSI] st: fix up after class_device removal
There's a change in the SCSI tree that adds another class_device, so change
it to an ordinary device

[jejb: this one got rebased until it's basically cosmetic only]

Cc: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-22 15:16:29 -05:00
Tony Jones ee959b00c3 SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device
It's big, but there doesn't seem to be a way to split it up smaller...

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:33 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 8ef8d5941c [SCSI] st: rename flush_write_buffer()
This patch fixes the following namespace collision with
include/asm-avr32/cacheflush.h :

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/st.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/st.c:629:53: error: macro "flush_write_buffer" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0
...
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/st.o] Error 1

<--  snip  -->

st now uses st_flush_write_buffer()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-16 09:23:46 -05:00
Kai Makisara b174be02f3 [SCSI] st: show options currently set in sysfs
Show the current binary tape driver and mode options is sysfs. A file
(options) is created in each directory in /sys/class/scsi_tape. The files
contain masks showing the options. The mask bit definitions are the same as
used when setting the options using the MTSETDRVBUFFER function in the
MTIOCTOP ioctl (defined in include/linux/mtio.h). For example:
> cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/options
0x00000d07

[jejb: updated doc with correction from Randy Dunlap]

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-07 12:15:40 -05:00
Kai Makisara 40f6b36c62 [SCSI] st: add option to use SILI in variable block reads
Add new option MT_ST_SILI to enable setting the SILI bit in reads in variable
block mode. If SILI is set, reading a block shorter than the byte count does
not result in CHECK CONDITION. The length of the block is determined using the
residual count from the HBA. Avoiding the REQUEST SENSE command for every
block speeds up some real applications considerably.

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-07 12:15:39 -05:00
Kai Makisara deee13dfd6 [SCSI] st: compile fix when DEBUG set to one
Remove the now useless counting of adjacent pages from the debugging code in
to make it compile when DEBUG is set non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-02-22 17:21:37 -06:00
Kai Makisara fd66c1b4e4 [SCSI] st: convert to unlocked_ioctl
Convert st to unlocked_ioctl. The necessary locking was already in place.

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-23 11:29:29 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori cd81621c5c [SCSI] st: fix kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:59!
This is caused by a missing scatterlist initialisation (it only shows
up when sg list handling debugging is turned on).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2007-12-18 16:04:13 -06:00
Jens Axboe 642f149031 SG: Change sg_set_page() to take length and offset argument
Most drivers need to set length and offset as well, so may as well fold
those three lines into one.

Add sg_assign_page() for those two locations that only needed to set
the page, where the offset/length is set outside of the function context.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-24 11:20:47 +02:00
Jens Axboe 45711f1af6 [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-22 21:19:53 +02:00
Matthias Kaehlcke 28f85009e0 [SCSI] st: Use mutex instead of semaphore
The SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-07-31 10:44:01 -05:00
FUJITA Tomonori 45e79a3acd bsg: add a request_queue argument to scsi_cmd_ioctl()
bsg uses scsi_cmd_ioctl() for some SCSI/sg ioctl
commands. scsi_cmd_ioctl() gets a request queue from a gendisk
arguement. This prevents bsg being bound to SCSI devices that don't
have a gendisk (like OSD). This adds a request_queue argument to
scsi_cmd_ioctl(). The SCSI/sg ioctl commands doesn't use a gendisk so
it's safe for any SCSI devices to use scsi_cmd_ioctl().

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16 08:52:45 +02:00
Michael Tokarev d7b8bcb0a0 [SCSI] modalias for scsi devices
The following patch adds support for sysfs/uevent modalias
attribute for scsi devices (like disks, tapes, cdroms etc),
based on whatever current sd.c, sr.c, st.c and osst.c drivers
supports.

The modalias format is like this:

 scsi:type-0x04

(for TYPE_WORM, handled by sr.c now).

Several comments.

o This hexadecimal type value is because all TYPE_XXX constants
  in include/scsi/scsi.h are given in hex, but __stringify() will
  not convert them to decimal (so it will NOT be scsi:type-4).
  Since it does not really matter in which format it is, while
  both modalias in module and modalias attribute match each other,
  I descided to go for that 0x%02x format (and added a comment in
  include/scsi/scsi.h to keep them that way), instead of changing
  them all to decimal.

o There was no .uevent routine for SCSI bus.  It might be a good
  idea to add some more ueven environment variables in there.

o osst.c driver handles tapes too, like st.c, but only SOME tapes.
  With this setup, hotplug scripts (or whatever is used by the
  user) will try to load both st and osst modules for all SCSI
  tapes found, because both modules have scsi:type-0x01 alias).
  It is not harmful, but one extra module is no good either.
  It is possible to solve this, by exporting more info in
  modalias attribute, including vendor and device identification
  strings, so that modalias becomes something like
    scsi:type-0x12:vendor-Adaptec LTD:device-OnStream Tape Drive
  and having that, match for all 3 attributes, not only device
  type.  But oh well, vendor and device strings may be large,
  and they do contain spaces and whatnot.
  So I left them for now, awaiting for comments first.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-04-17 18:15:04 -04:00
Robert P. J. Day 405ae7d381 Replace remaining references to "driverfs" with "sysfs".
Globally, s/driverfs/sysfs/g.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 19:13:42 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 00977a59b9 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
James Bottomley 81b7bbd193 Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts:

	drivers/scsi/ipr.c

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-02-10 13:45:43 -06:00
Kai Makisara 9abe16c670 [SCSI] st: fix Tape dies if wrong block size used, bug 7919
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:34:29 -0800
> bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7919
> >
> >            Summary: Tape dies if wrong block size used
> >     Kernel Version: 2.6.20-rc5
> >             Status: NEW
> >           Severity: normal
> >              Owner: scsi_drivers-other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
> >          Submitter: dmartin@sccd.ctc.edu
> >
> >
> > Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur: 2.6.17.14
> >
> > Other Kernels Tested and Results:
> >
> >     OK 2.6.15.7
> >     OK 2.6.16.37
> >     OK 2.6.17.14
> >     BAD 2.6.18.6
> >     BAD 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> >     BAD 2.6.19.2 +
> >     BAD 2.6.20-rc5
> >
> > NOTE: 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 is a Fedora modified kernel, all others are from kernel.org
> >
...
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > Get a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U card and a tape drive,
> > install a recent kernel
> > set the tape block size - mt setblk 4096
> > read from or write to tape using wrong block size - tar -b 7 -cvf /dev/tape foo
> >
Write does not trigger this bug because the driver refuses in fixed block
mode writes that are not a multiple of the block size. Read does trigger
it in my system.

The bug is not associated with any specific HBA. st tries to do direct i/o
in fixed block mode with reads that are not a multiple of tape block size.

The patch in this message fixes the st problem by switching to using the
driver buffer up to the next close of the device file in fixed block mode
if the user asks for a read like this.

I don't know why the bug has surfaced only after 2.6.17 although the st
problem is old. There may be another bug in the block subsystem and this
patch works around it. However, the patch fixes a problem in st and in
this way it is a valid fix.

This patch may also fix the bug 7900.

The patch compiles and is lightly tested.

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-02-03 08:05:47 -06:00