Applications which use virtual LUN's that are backed by a physical LUN
over both adapter ports may experience an I/O failure in the event of a
link loss (e.g. cable pull).
Virtual LUNs may be accessed through one or both ports of the adapter.
This access is encoded in the translation entries that comprise the
virtual LUN and used by the AFU for load-balancing I/O and handling
failover scenarios. In a link loss scenario, even though the AFU is able
to maintain connectivity to the LUN, it is up to the application to
retry the failed I/O. When applications are unaware of the virtual LUN's
underlying topology, they are unable to make a sound decision of when to
retry an I/O and therefore are forced to make their reaction to a failed
I/O absolute. The result is either a failure to retry I/O or increased
latency for scenarios where a retry is pointless.
To remedy this scenario, provide feedback back to the application on
virtual LUN creation as to which ports the LUN may be accessed. LUN's
spanning both ports are candidates for a retry in a presence of an I/O
failure.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Ioctl threads that use scsi_execute() can run for an excessive amount
of time due to the fact that they have lengthy timeouts and retry logic
built in. Under normal operation this is not an issue. However, once EEH
enters the picture, a long execution time coupled with the possibility
that a timeout can trigger entry to the driver via registered reset
callbacks becomes a liability.
In particular, a deadlock can occur when an EEH event is encountered
while in running in scsi_execute(). As part of the recovery, the EEH
handler drains all currently running ioctls, waiting until they have
completed before proceeding with a reset. As the scsi_execute()'s are
situated on the ioctl path, the EEH handler will wait until they (and
the remainder of the ioctl handler they're associated with) have
completed. Normally this would not be much of an issue aside from the
longer recovery period. Unfortunately, the scsi_execute() triggers a
reset when it times out. The reset handler will see that the device is
already being reset and wait until that reset completed. This creates
a condition where the EEH handler becomes stuck, infinitely waiting for
the ioctl thread to complete.
To avoid this behavior, temporarily unmark the scsi_execute() threads
as an ioctl thread by releasing the ioctl read semaphore. This allows
the EEH handler to proceed with a recovery while the thread is still
running. Once the scsi_execute() returns, the ioctl read semaphore is
reacquired and the adapter state is rechecked in case it changed while
inside of scsi_execute(). The state check will wait if the adapter is
still being recovered or returns a failure if the recovery failed. In
the event that the adapter reset failed, the failure is simply returned
as the ioctl would be unable to continue.
Reported-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
There are several spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the
driver. Additionally there are a handful of places where there
are extra lines and unnecessary variables/statements. These are
a nuisance and pollute the driver.
Fix spelling and grammar issues. Update some comments for clarity and
consistency. Remove extra lines and a few unneeded variables/statements.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Sparse uncovered several errors with MMIO operations (accessing
directly) and handling endianness. These can cause issues when
running in different environments.
Introduce __iomem and proper endianness tags/swaps where
appropriate to make driver sparse clean.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
If the same virtual LUN is accessed over multiple cards, only accesses
made over the first card will be valid. Accesses made over the second
card will go to the wrong LUN causing data corruption.
This is because the global LUN's mode word was being used to determine
whether the LUN table for that card needs to be programmed. The mode
word would be setup by the first card, causing the LUN table for the
second card to not be programmed.
By unconditionally initializing the LUN table (not depending on the
mode word), the problem is avoided.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
The timeout value for read capacity is too small. Certain devices
may take longer to respond and thus the command may prematurely
timeout. Additionally the literal used for the timeout is stale.
Update the timeout to 30 seconds (matches the value used in sd.c)
and rework the timeout literal to a more appropriate description.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Magic numbers are not meaningful and can create confusion. As a
remedy, replace them with descriptive literals.
Replace 512 with literal MAX_SECTOR_UNIT.
Replace 5 with literal CMD_RETRIES.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device
driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user
space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual
LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this
adapter.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Matthew R. Ochs