Multipath is best at handling transport errors. If it gets a device
error then there is not much the multipath layer can do. It will just
access the same device but from a different path.
This patch breaks up failfast into device, transport and driver errors.
The multipath layers (md and dm mutlipath) only ask the lower levels to
fast fail transport errors. The user of failfast, read ahead, will ask
to fast fail on all errors.
Note that blk_noretry_request will return true if any failfast bit
is set. This allows drivers that do not support the multipath failfast
bits to continue to fail on any failfast error like before. Drivers
like scsi that are able to fail fast specific errors can check
for the specific fail fast type. In the next patch I will convert
scsi.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:56 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> s390:
>
> drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c: In function 'parse_sp_info_reply':
> drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c:179: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
>
> because chars are unsigned, I assume.
Fix by making csdev->buffer explicitly an unsigned char and dropping
the < 0 test.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Add Dell Powervault storage arrays into device list of rdac device
handler.
Signed-off-by: Yanqing Liu <yanqing_liu@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
blk_get_request initializes rq->cmd (rq_init does) so the users don't
need to do that.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Change scsi_dh check_sense functions to return ADD_TO_MLQUEUE
to allow retries to occur without restriction of blk_noretry_request
check.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (22 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.2
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Add details to async event log
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Sanitize response lengths
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix for lost async events
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fixup host state during reinit
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix another hang on module removal
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fixup desired DMA value for shared memory partitions
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs dbg_lvl world writeable permissions
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Explicitly tear-down vports during PCI remove_one().
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Reference proper ha during SBR handling.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Set npiv_supported flag for FCoE HBAs.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't leak SG-DMA mappings while aborting commands.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct vport-state management issues during ISP-ABORT.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct synchronization of software/firmware fcport states.
[SCSI] scsi_dh: Initialize lun_state in check_ownership()
[SCSI] scsi_dh: Do not use scsilun in rdac hardware handler
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: version and Documentation Update
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: add new controllers (0x78 0x79)
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: add the shutdown DCMD cmd to driver shutdown routine
...
lun_state need to be initialized inside check_ownership().
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
RDAC storage controller doesn't seem to use the scsilun format. It uses
only the last byte for LUN.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch makes several needlessly global struct scsi_dh_devlist's
static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[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>
Create a cache of devices that are seen in a system. This will avoid
the unnecessary traversal of the device list in the scsi_dh when there
are multiple luns of a same type.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
multipath keeps a separate device table which may be
more current than the built-in one.
So we should make sure to always call ->attach whenever
a multipath map with hardware handler is instantiated.
And we should call ->detach on removal, too.
[sekharan: update as per comments from agk]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch updates the RDAC device handler to
refuse to attach to devices not supporting the
RDAC vpd pages.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch updates the hp_sw device handler to properly
check the return codes etc.
And adds the 'correct' machine definitions.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch converts the EMC device handler to use a proper
state machine. We now also parse the extended INQUIRY
information to determine if long trespass commands are
supported. And we're now using the long trespass command
correctly. And finally there's now an check at init time
to refuse to attach to devices not supporting EMC-specific
VPD pages.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Implement a 'dh_state' sdev attribute for dynamic device handler
manipulation. A read on the attribute will return the name of
the currently attached device handler or 'detached' if no handler
is attached.
The attribute allows the following strings to be written:
- The name of the device handler to be attached if the state is
'detached'.
- 'activate' to trigger path activation if a device handler
is attached.
- 'detach' to detach the currently attached device handler.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Instead of having each and every driver implement its own
device table scanning code we should rather implement a common
routine and scan the device tables there.
This allows us also to implement a general notifier chain
callback for all device handler instead for one per handler.
[sekharan: Fix rejections caused by conflicting bug fix]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Before accessing the device data structure in hardware handlers,
make sure it is a indeed a sdev device.
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> found the bug on Jul 16, 2008,
and later tested/verified the following fix.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds support for EMC Clariions. This patch has the features that
currently exists in mainline and advanced features from Ed's patches.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch provides the device handler to support the older hp boxes
which cannot be upgraded.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch provides the device handler to support the LSI RDAC SCSI
based storage devices.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Some of the storage devices (that can be accessed through multiple paths),
do need some special handling for
1. Activating the passive path of the storage access.
2. Decode and handle the special sense codes returned by the devices.
3. Handle the I/Os being sent to the passive path, especially
during the device probe time.
when accessed through multiple paths.
As of today this special device handling is done at the dm-multipath
layer using dm-handlers. That works well for (1); for (2) to be handled
at dm layer, scsi sense information need to be exported from SCSI to dm-layer,
which is not very attractive; (3) cannot be done at all at the dm layer.
Device handler has been moved to SCSI mainly to handle (2) and (3) properly.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Mike Christie