When we block a rport and the driver implements the terminate
callback we will fail IO that was running quickly. However
IO that was in the scsi_device/block queue sits there until
the dev_loss_tmo fires, and this can make it look like IO is
lost because new IO will get executed but that IO stuck in
the blocked queue sits there for some time longer.
With this patch when the fast io fail tmo fires, we will
fail the blocked IO and any new IO. This patch also allows
all drivers to partially support the fast io fail tmo. If the
terminate io callback is not implemented, we will still fail blocked
IO and any new IO, so multipath can handle that.
This patch also allows the fc and iscsi classes to implement the
same behavior. The timers are just unfornately named differently.
This patch also fixes the problem where drivers were unblocking
the target in their terminate callback, which was needed for
rport removal, but for fast io fail timeout it would cause
IO to bounce arround the scsi/block layer and the LLD queuecommand.
And it for drivers that could have IO stuck but did not have
a terminate callback the unblock calls in the class will fix
them.
v2.
- fix up bit setting style to meet JamesS's pref.
- Broke out new host byte error changes to make it easier to read.
- added JamesS's ack from list.
v1
- initial patch
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (37 commits)
[SCSI] zfcp: fix double dbf id usage
[SCSI] zfcp: wait on SCSI work to be finished before proceeding with init dev
[SCSI] zfcp: fix erp list usage without using locks
[SCSI] zfcp: prevent fc_remote_port_delete calls for unregistered rport
[SCSI] zfcp: fix deadlock caused by shared work queue tasks
[SCSI] zfcp: put threshold data in hba trace
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify zfcp data structures
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify get_adapter_by_busid
[SCSI] zfcp: remove all typedefs and replace them with standards
[SCSI] zfcp: attach and release SAN nameserver port on demand
[SCSI] zfcp: remove unused references, declarations and flags
[SCSI] zfcp: Update message with input from review
[SCSI] zfcp: add queue_full sysfs attribute
[SCSI] scsi_dh: suppress comparison warning
[SCSI] scsi_dh: add Dell product information into rdac device handler
[SCSI] qla2xxx: remove the unused SCSI_QLOGIC_FC_FIRMWARE option
[SCSI] qla2xxx: fix printk format warnings
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k8.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Ignore payload reserved-bits during RSCN processing.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Additional residual-count corrections during UNDERRUN handling.
...
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling.
Move those bits to the block layer.
Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever
and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to
tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot
less timer fiddling.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by
the transport. This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow
an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention.
Additional comments/updates:
Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt
Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's
done for fc_vport_create
Re: fc_vport_create
I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather
than fixing it at zero.
Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to
calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless.
Added-by and
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
[jejb: fixed up a ton of missed conversions.
All of you are on notice this has happened, driver trees will now
need to be rebased]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Kobjects do not have a limit in name size since a while, so stop
pretending that they do.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Way back when, when the fc_user_scan routine was created, it kept some
of its original logic that walked the rport list and kicked off a scan.
Unfortunately, it didn't keep any of the locking around the rport list,
nor did it consider the synchronous nature of the scan invoked. The result,
there are some scan requests where the rport list changes, thus a subsequent
scan is called on a bogus rport structure and the system NMI's.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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>
Add Documentation/DocBook/scsi_midlayer.tmpl, add to Makefile, and update
lots of kerneldoc comments in drivers/scsi/*.
Updated with comments from Stefan Richter, Stephen M. Cameron,
James Bottomley and Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
In scsi module I've found some inconsistency between variable type
used in module_param_named and type passed to module_param_named as an
argument. Especially the inconsistency of `max_scsi_luns' parameter is
a bit serious because the description text says "last scsi LUN (should
be between 1 and 2^32-1)".
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This adds minimum target driver support like the srp transport does:
- fc_remote_port_{rolechg,delete} calls
scsi_tgt_it_nexus_{create,destroy} for target drivers.
- add callbacks to notify target drivers of the nexus and tmf
operation results to fc_function_template.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This change has already been discussed on linux-scsi:
http://marc.info/?t=118771096400003http://marc.info/?t=118760913100005
Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
it's global functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
When a target scan is initiated from sysfs, we should check the
portstate prior to invoke scsi_scan_target().
Otherwise scsi_scan_target() might oops as the rport might already
been removed from the scsi host and the traversal from the rport to
the scsi_host in scsi_scan_target() will fail.
Also the portstate already told us that communication with the target
has failed, so it's quite pointless to try.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
When the vport attribute "delete" is used to delete the vport, sysfs
deadlocks waiting for the write to complete, which is waiting for the
sysfs teardown to complete. Moved this effort to a work_q element.
Took the opportunity to make some other cosmetic changes:
- removed tabs in Doc file - replaced with expanded spaces
- minor copyright text and author text updates
- removed a bunch of trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch provides support for FC virtual ports based on NPIV.
For information on the interfaces and design, please read the
Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt file enclosed within
the patch.
The RFC was originally posted here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117226959918393&w=2
Changes from the initial RFC:
- Bug fix: needed a transport_class_unregister() for the vport class
- Create a symlink to the vport in the shost device if it is not the
parent of the vport.
- Made symbolic name writable so it can be set after creation
- Made the temporary fc_vport_identifiers struct private to the
transport.
- Deleted the vport_id field from the vport. I couldn't find any good
use for it (and symname is a good replacement).
- Made the vport_state and vport_last_state "private" attributes.
Added the fc_vport_set_state() helper function to manage state
transitions
- Updated vport_create() to allow a vport to be created in a disabled
state.
- Added INITIALIZING and FAILED vport states
- Added VPCERR_xxx defines for errors to be returned from vport_create()
- Created a Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt file that describes
the interfaces and expected LLDD behaviors.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Per the comment in the change - it's not always prudent to immediately
remove the rport upon first notice of a disconnect. Make all rports
wait dev_loss_tmo before being deleted (and each could have a separate
dev_loss_tmo value).
The original post was:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117392196006703&w=2
The repost contains the following changes:
- Bug fix in fc_starget_delete(). Dev_loss_tmo_callbk() was called prior to
tearing down the target. The callback is to be the last thing called, as
it tells the LLDD that the rport is completely finished and can be torn
down. Rework so that terminate_rport_io() is called to terminate the
outstanding io. Isolated work so it's is simply "starget" work.
- Fix holes in original patch. There were code paths that did not expect
the dev_loss_tmo timer to be running for the non-fcp rports.
- Bug Fix: the transport wasn't protecting against a LLDD calling
fc_remote_port_delete() back-to-back. Thus, the dev_loss_tmo timer
could be restarted such that it fires after the rport had been deleted.
Validate rport state before starting the timer.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch updates the FC transport for all speeds identified in
SM-HBA. Note: it does not sync the "bit" definitions, as that is
actually insulated from user-space via the sysfs text string. (I could
do it, but it does introduce a potential binary-incompatibility).
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nlmsg_multicast now takes an extra allocation flag, so add it to
the use in the fibre channel transport class.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch adds the following functionality to the FC transport:
- dev_loss_tmo LLDD callback :
Called to essentially confirm the deletion of an rport. Thus, it is
called whenever the dev_loss_tmo fires, or when the rport is deleted
due to other circumstances (module unload, etc). It is expected that
the callback will initiate the termination of any outstanding i/o on
the rport.
- fast_io_fail_tmo and LLD callback:
There are some cases where it may take a long while to truly determine
device loss, but the system is in a multipathing configuration that if
the i/o was failed quickly (faster than dev_loss_tmo), it could be
redirected to a different path and completed sooner.
Many thanks to Mike Reed who cleaned up the initial RFC in support
of this post.
The original RFC is at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115505981027246&w=2
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
During discussions with Mike Christie, I became convinced that we needed
a larger vendor id. This patch extends the id from 32 to 64 bits.
This applies on top of the prior patches that add SCSI transport events
via netlink.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch formally adds support for the posting of FC events via netlink.
It is a followup to the original RFC at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114530667923464&w=2
and the initial posting at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115507374832500&w=2
The patch has been updated to optimize the send path, per the discussions
in the initial posting.
Per discussions at the Storage Summit and at OLS, we are to use netlink for
async events from transports. Also per discussions, to avoid a netlink
protocol per transport, I've create a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol,
which can then be used by all transports.
This patch:
- Creates new files scsi_netlink.c and scsi_netlink.h, which contains the
single and shared definitions for the SCSI Transport. It is tied into the
base SCSI subsystem intialization.
Contains a single interface routine, scsi_send_transport_event(), for a
transport to send an event (via multicast to a protocol specific group).
- Creates a new scsi_netlink_fc.h file, which contains the FC netlink event
messages
- Adds 3 new routines to the fc transport:
fc_get_event_number() - to get a FC event #
fc_host_post_event() - to send a simple FC event (32 bits of data)
fc_host_post_vendor_event() - to send a Vendor unique event, with
arbitrary amounts of data.
Note: the separation of event number allows for a LLD to send a standard
event, followed by vendor-specific data for the event.
Note: This patch assumes 2 prior fc transport patches have been installed:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115555807316329&w=2http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115581614930261&w=2
Sorry - next time I'll do something like making these individual
patches of the same posting when I know they'll be posted closely
together.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Tidy up configuration not to make SCSI always select NET
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch updates the fc transport for the following:
- Addition of a new attribute "system_hostname" which can be
used to set the fully qualified hostname that the fc_host
is attached to. The fc_host can then register this string
as the FDMI-based host name attribute.
Note: for NPIV, a fc_host could be associated with a system which
is not the local system.
- Add the inline function u64_to_wwn(), which is the inverse of the
existing wwn_to_u64() function.
- Slight reorg, just to keep dynamic attributes with each other, etc
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Original post was incorrect as it didn't realize that we already had
a self-referenc due to device_initialize(), and we were really only
missing the put on our own reference. This was hidden by the other bug
which had the midlayer reusing stargets after they were already free,
which was doing too many puts on our rport.
Updating FC transport for:
- Add put in fc_rport_final_delete(), to release the rport.
Prior, we were leaving the rport with a reference, thus the shost
with references, etc. If the driver was unloaded, shosts and rports
remained, along with work threads, etc
- Fix fc_rport_create failure path - too many put's on parent
- Add commenting to easily track ref taking.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Updated patch to address comments from Pat Mansfield and Michael Reed:
Bumped max to 600 (10mins). Set default dev_loss_tmo to a value other
than the max (30s).
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
In a prior posting to linux-scsi on the fc transport and workq
deadlocks, we noted a second error that did not have a patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114467847711383&w=2
- There's a deadlock where scsi_remove_target() has to sit behind
scsi_scan_target() due to contention over the scan_lock().
Subsequently we posted a request for comments about the deadlock:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114469358829500&w=2
This posting resolves the second error. Here's what we now understand,
and are implementing:
If the lldd deletes the rport while a scan is active, the sdev's queue
is blocked which stops the issuing of commands associated with the scan.
At this point, the scan stalls, and does so with the shost->scan_mutex held.
If, at this point, if any scan or delete request is made on the host, it
will stall waiting for the scan_mutex.
For the FC transport, we queue all delete work to a single workq.
So, things worked fine when competing with the scan, as long as the
target blocking the scan was the same target at the top of our delete
workq, as the delete workq routine always unblocked just prior to
requesting the delete. Unfortunately, if the top of our delete workq
was for a different target, we deadlock. Additionally, if the target
blocking scan returned, we were unblocking it in the scan workq routine,
which really won't execute until the existing stalled scan workq
completes (e.g. we're re-scheduling it while it is in the midst of its
execution).
This patch moves the unblock out of the workq routines and moves it to
the context that is scheduling the work. This ensures that at some point,
we will unblock the target that is blocking scan. Please note, however,
that the deadlock condition may still occur while it waits for the
transport to timeout an unblock on a target. Worst case, this is bounded
by the transport dev_loss_tmo (default: 30 seconds).
Finally, Michael Reed deserves the credit for the bulk of this patch,
analysis, and it's testing. Thank you for your help.
Note: The request for comments statements about the gross-ness of the
scan_mutex still stand.
Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of the macro.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
As previously reported via Michael Reed, the FC transport took a hit
in 2.6.15 (perhaps a little earlier) when we solved a recursion error.
There are 2 deadlocks occurring:
- With scan and the delete items sharing the same workq, flushing the
workq for the delete code was getting it stalled behind a very long
running scan code path.
- There's a deadlock where scsi_remove_target() has to sit behind
scsi_scan_target() due to contention over the scan_lock().
This patch resolves the 1st deadlock and significantly reduces the
odds of the second. So far, we have only replicated the 2nd deadlock
on a highly-parallel SMP system. More on the 2nd deadlock in a following
email.
This patch reworks the transport to:
- Only use the scsi host workq for scanning
- Use 2 other workq's internally. One for deletions, the other for
scheduled deletions. Originally, we tried this with a single workq,
but the occassional flushes of the scheduled queues was hitting the
second deadlock with a slightly higher frequency. In the future, we'll
look at the LLDD's and the transport to see if we can get rid of this
extra overhead.
- When moving to the other workq's we tightened up some object states
and some lock handling.
- Properly syncs adds/deletes
- minor code cleanups
- directly reference fc_host_attrs, rather than through attribute
macros
- flush the right workq on delayed work cancel failures.
Large kudos to Michael Reed who has been working this issue for the last
month.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This moves the eh_timed_out functionality from the scsi_host_template
to the transport_template. Given that this is now a transport function,
the EH_RESET_TIMER case no longer caps the timer reschedulings. The
transport guarantees that this is not an infinite condition.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
In the past I added an host attribute but unfortunately
I forgot to increase FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS.
This is fixed with the patch. Otherwise an fibre channel
lld might run into
BUG_ON(count > FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS);
in fc_attach_transport().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Change the core SCSI code to use kzalloc rather than kmalloc+memset
where possible.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Current fc_transport consumers initially register rports
with an UNKNOWN role-state and follow-up with a call to
fc_remote_port_rolechg(). Modify code in
fc_remote_port_add() to scan the fc_host_rport_bindings()
array for consistent bindings regardless of role-type.
Original code would only scan bindings array for targets,
causing duplicate fc_remote_ports/rport-X:Y-Z entries to be
created for the yet-to-be-role-changed rports.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
When James Smart fixed the issue of the userspace scan atributes
crashing the system with the FC transport class he added a patch to
let the transport class check if the parent is valid for a given
transport class.
When adding support for the integrated raid of fusion sas devices
we ran into a problem with that, as it didn't allow adding virtual
raid volumes without the transport class knowing about it.
So this patch adds a user_scan attribute instead, that takes over from
scsi_scan_host_selected if the transport class sets it and thus lets
the transport class control the user-initiated scanning. As this
plugs the hole about user-initiated scanning the target_parent hook
goes away and we rely on callers of the scanning routines to do
something sensible.
For SAS this meant I had to switch from a spinlock to a mutex to
synchronize the topology linked lists, in FC they were completely
unsynchronized which seems wrong.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Add fc_host attribute permanent_port_name which is
used to show the port name of the primary port -
the port that initially logged into the fabric.
For a virtual port (registered via the primary port with
FDISC command) it is useful to know not only its (virtual)
port name but also the permanent port name.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
In the scenario that a link was broken, the devloss timer for each
rport was expire at roughly the same time, causing lots of "delete"
workqueue items being queued. Depth is dependent upon the number of
rports that were on the link.
The rport target remove calls were calling flush_scheduled_work(),
which would interrupt the stream, and start the next workqueue item,
which did the same thing, and so on until recursion depth was large.
This fix stops the recursion in the initial delete path, and pushes it
off to a host-level work item that reaps the dead rports.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
patch below marks a few scsi core datastructures as const, so that they end up
in the .rodata section and don't cacheline share with things that get dirtied
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We recently went back to implement a board reset. When we perform the
reset, we wanted to tear down the internal data structures and rebuild
them. Unfortunately, when it came to the rport structure, things were
odd. If we deleted them, the scsi targets and sdevs would be
torn down. Not a good thing for a temporary reset. We could block the
rports, but we either maintain the internal structures to keep the
rport reference (perhaps even replicating what's in the transport),
or we have to fatten the fc transport with new search routines to find
the rport (and deal with a case of a dangling rport that the driver
forgets).
It dawned on me that we had actually reached this state incorrectly.
When the fc transport first started, we did the block/unblock first, then
added the rport interface. The purpose of block/unblock is to hide the
temporary disappearance of the rport (e.g. being deleted, then readded).
Why are we making the driver do the block/unblock ? We should be making
the transport have only an rport add/delete, and the let the transport
handle the block/unblock.
So... This patch removes the existing fc_remote_port_block/unblock
functions. It moves the block/unblock functionality into the
fc_remote_port_add/delete functions. Updates for the lpfc driver are
included. Qlogic driver updates are also enclosed, thanks to the
contributions of Andrew Vasquez. [Note: the qla2xxx changes are
relative to the scsi-misc-2.6 tree as of this morning - which does
not include the recent patches sent by Andrew]. The zfcp driver does
not use the block/unblock functions.
One last comment: The resulting behavior feels very clean. The LLDD is
concerned only with add/delete, which corresponds to the physical
disappearance. However, the fact that the scsi target and sdevs are
not immediately torn down after the LLDD calls delete causes an
interesting scenario... the midlayer can call the xxx_slave_alloc and
xxx_queuecommand functions with a sdev that is at the location the
rport used to be. The driver must validate the device exists when it
first enters these functions. In thinking about it, this has always
been the case for the LLDD and these routines. The existing drivers
already check for existence. However, this highlights that simple
validation via data structure dereferencing needs to be watched.
To deal with this, a new transport function, fc_remote_port_chkready()
was created that LLDDs should call when they first enter these two
routines. It validates the rport state, and returns a scsi result
which could be returned. In addition to solving the above, it also
creates consistent behavior from the LLDD's when the block and deletes
are occuring.
Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Ok, here's a patch to add such a common API for fc transport users.
Relevant LLD changes (lpfc and qla2xxx) also present.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This should eliminate (at least in the mid layer) to make numeric
assumptions about any of the enumeration variables. As a side effect,
it will also make all the messages consistent and line us up nicely for
the error logging strategy (if it ever shows itself again).
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mike Christie