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Chaitanya Kulkarni d81e9d4943 scsi: implement REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL
This patch implements the zone reset all operation for sd_zbc.c. We add
a new boolean parameter for the sd_zbc_setup_reset_cmd() to indicate
REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL command setup. Along with that we add support in
the completion path for the zone reset all.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-04 21:41:29 -06:00
Damien Le Moal bd976e5272 block: Kill gfp_t argument of blkdev_report_zones()
Only GFP_KERNEL and GFP_NOIO are used with blkdev_report_zones(). In
preparation of using vmalloc() for large report buffer and zone array
allocations used by this function, remove its "gfp_t gfp_mask" argument
and rely on the caller context to use memalloc_noio_save/restore() where
necessary (block layer zone revalidation and dm-zoned I/O error path).

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-07-11 20:04:37 -06:00
Dietmar Hahn df46cac3f7 scsi: sd: Fix typo in sd_first_printk()
Commit b2bff6ceb6 ("[SCSI] sd: Quiesce mode sense error messages")
added the macro sd_first_printk(). The macro takes "sdsk" as argument
but dereferences "sdkp". This hasn't caused any real issues since all
callers of sd_first_printk() have an sdkp. But fix the typo.

[mkp: Turned this into a real patch and tweaked commit description]

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-02-12 22:33:00 -05:00
John Garry 082c2cd203 scsi: sd: Make protection lookup tables static and relocate functions
Currently the protection lookup tables in sd_prot_flag_mask() and
sd_prot_op() are declared as non-static. As such, they will be rebuilt for
each respective function call.

Optimise by making them static.

This saves ~100B object code for sd.c:

Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  25403	   1024	     16	  26443	   674b	drivers/scsi/sd.o

After:
  text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  25299	   1024	     16	  26339	   66e3	drivers/scsi/sd.o

In addition, since those same functions are declared in sd.h, but each are
only referenced in sd.c, relocate them to that same c file.

The inline specifier is dropped also, since gcc should be able to make the
decision to inline.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-01-08 22:29:32 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig 159b2cbf59 scsi: return blk_status_t from scsi_init_io and ->init_command
Replace the old BLKPREP_* values with the BLK_STS_ ones that they are
converted to later anyway.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-11-09 19:17:14 -07:00
Damien Le Moal bf50545696 block: Introduce blk_revalidate_disk_zones()
Drivers exposing zoned block devices have to initialize and maintain
correctness (i.e. revalidate) of the device zone bitmaps attached to
the device request queue (seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock).

To simplify coding this, introduce a generic helper function
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() suitable for most (and likely all) cases.
This new function always update the seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock
bitmaps as well as the queue nr_zones field when called for a disk
using a request based queue. For a disk using a BIO based queue, only
the number of zones is updated since these queues do not have
schedulers and so do not need the zone bitmaps.

With this change, the zone bitmap initialization code in sd_zbc.c can be
replaced with a call to this function in sd_zbc_read_zones(), which is
called from the disk revalidate block operation method.

A call to blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is also added to the null_blk
driver for devices created with the zoned mode enabled.

Finally, to ensure that zoned devices created with dm-linear or
dm-flakey expose the correct number of zones through sysfs, a call to
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is added to dm_table_set_restrictions().

The zone bitmaps allocated and initialized with
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() are freed automatically from
__blk_release_queue() using the block internal function
blk_queue_free_zone_bitmaps().

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-25 11:17:40 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig e76239a374 block: add a report_zones method
Dispatching a report zones command through the request queue is a major
pain due to the command reply payload rewriting necessary. Given that
blkdev_report_zones() is executing everything synchronously, implement
report zones as a block device file operation instead, allowing major
simplification of the code in many places.

sd, null-blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey being the only block device
drivers supporting exposing zoned block devices, these drivers are
modified to provide the device side implementation of the
report_zones() block device file operation.

For device mappers, a new report_zones() target type operation is
defined so that the upper block layer calls blkdev_report_zones() can
be propagated down to the underlying devices of the dm targets.
Implementation for this new operation is added to the dm-linear and
dm-flakey targets.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[Damien]
* Changed method block_device argument to gendisk
* Various bug fixes and improvements
* Added support for null_blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-25 11:17:40 -06:00
Max Gurtovoy 10c41ddd61 block: move dif_prepare/dif_complete functions to block layer
Currently these functions are implemented in the scsi layer, but their
actual place should be the block layer since T10-PI is a general data
integrity feature that is used in the nvme protocol as well. Also, use
the tuple size from the integrity profile since it may vary between
integrity types.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-30 08:27:02 -06:00
Bart Van Assche 354f113205 scsi: sd_zbc: Change the type of the ZBC fields into u32
This patch does not change any functionality but makes it clear that it is on
purpose that these fields are 32 bits wide.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2018-04-19 00:00:44 -04:00
Damien Le Moal 39051dd85f scsi: sd: Remove zone write locking
The block layer now handles zone write locking.

[mkp: removed SCMD_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK reference in scsi_debugfs]

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2018-01-08 22:27:32 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig d80210f25f sd: add support for TCG OPAL self encrypting disks
Just wire up the generic TCG OPAL infrastructure to the SCSI disk driver
and the Security In/Out commands.

Note that I don't know of any actual SCSI disks that do support TCG OPAL,
but this is required to support ATA disks through libata.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-06-29 10:21:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8d5e72dfdf SCSI misc on 20170503
This update includes the usual round of major driver updates
 (hisi_sas, ufs, fnic, cxlflash, be2iscsi, ipr, stex).  There's also
 the usual amount of cosmetic and spelling stuff.
 
 Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This update includes the usual round of major driver updates
  (hisi_sas, ufs, fnic, cxlflash, be2iscsi, ipr, stex). There's also the
  usual amount of cosmetic and spelling stuff"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (155 commits)
  scsi: qla4xxx: fix spelling mistake: "Tempalate" -> "Template"
  scsi: stex: make S6flag static
  scsi: mac_esp: fix to pass correct device identity to free_irq()
  scsi: aacraid: pci_alloc_consistent() failures on ARM64
  scsi: ufs: make ufshcd_get_lists_status() register operation obvious
  scsi: ufs: use MASK_EE_STATUS
  scsi: mac_esp: Replace bogus memory barrier with spinlock
  scsi: fcoe: make fcoe_e_d_tov and fcoe_r_a_tov static
  scsi: sd_zbc: Do not write lock zones for reset
  scsi: sd_zbc: Remove superfluous assignments
  scsi: sd: sd_zbc: Rename sd_zbc_setup_write_cmnd
  scsi: Improve scsi_get_sense_info_fld
  scsi: sd: Cleanup sd_done sense data handling
  scsi: sd: Improve sd_completed_bytes
  scsi: sd: Fix function descriptions
  scsi: mpt3sas: remove redundant wmb
  scsi: mpt: Move scsi_remove_host() out of mptscsih_remove_host()
  scsi: sg: reset 'res_in_use' after unlinking reserved array
  scsi: mvumi: remove code handling zero scsi_sg_count(scmd) case
  scsi: fusion: fix spelling mistake: "Persistancy" -> "Persistency"
  ...
2017-05-04 12:19:44 -07:00
Damien Le Moal a90dfdc2de scsi: sd: sd_zbc: Rename sd_zbc_setup_write_cmnd
Rename sd_zbc_setup_write_cmnd() to sd_zbc_write_lock_zone() to be clear
about what the function actually does. To be consistent, also rename
sd_zbc_cancel_write_cmnd() to sd_zbc_write_unlock_zone().

No functional change is introduced by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-04-25 13:00:57 -04:00
Damien Le Moal 6eadc61224 scsi: sd: Improve sd_completed_bytes
Re-shuffle the code to be more efficient by not initializing variables
upfront (i.e. do it only when necessary).  Also replace the do_div calls
with calls to sectors_to_logical().

No functional change is introduced by this patch.

[mkp: bytes_to_logical()]

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-04-24 19:00:29 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen e6bd931284 scsi: sd: Separate zeroout and discard command choices
Now that zeroout and discards are distinct operations we need to
separate the policy of choosing the appropriate command. Create a
zeroing_mode which can be one of:

write:			Zeroout assist not present, use regular WRITE
writesame:		Allow WRITE SAME(10/16) with a zeroed payload
writesame_16_unmap:	Allow WRITE SAME(16) with UNMAP
writesame_10_unmap:	Allow WRITE SAME(10) with UNMAP

The last two are conditional on the device being thin provisioned with
LBPRZ=1 and LBPWS=1 or LBPWS10=1 respectively.

Whether to set the UNMAP bit or not depends on the REQ_NOUNMAP flag. And
if none of the _unmap variants are supported, regular WRITE SAME will be
used if the device supports it.

The zeroout_mode is exported in sysfs and the detected mode for a given
device can be overridden using the string constants above.

With this change in place we can now issue WRITE SAME(16) with UNMAP set
for block zeroing applications that require hard guarantees and
logical_block_size granularity. And at the same time use the UNMAP
command with the device's preferred granulary and alignment for discard
operations.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
Hannes Reinecke 7a38dc0bfb scsi: scsi_error: count medium access timeout only once per EH run
The current medium access timeout counter will be increased for
each command, so if there are enough failed commands we'll hit
the medium access timeout for even a single device failure and
the following kernel message is displayed:

sd H:C:T:L: [sdXY] Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!

Fix this by making the timeout per EH run, ie the counter will
only be increased once per device and EH run.

Fixes: 18a4d0a ("[SCSI] Handle disk devices which can not process medium access commands")
Cc: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Lawrence Obermann <loberman@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-04-06 13:07:32 -04:00
Hannes Reinecke 89d9475610 sd: Implement support for ZBC devices
Implement ZBC support functions to setup zoned disks, both
host-managed and host-aware models. Only zoned disks that satisfy
the following conditions are supported:
1) All zones are the same size, with the exception of an eventual
   last smaller runt zone.
2) For host-managed disks, reads are unrestricted (reads are not
   failed due to zone or write pointer alignement constraints).
Zoned disks that do not satisfy these 2 conditions are setup with
a capacity of 0 to prevent their use.

The function sd_zbc_read_zones, called from sd_revalidate_disk,
checks that the device satisfies the above two constraints. This
function may also change the disk capacity previously set by
sd_read_capacity for devices reporting only the capacity of
conventional zones at the beginning of the LBA range (i.e. devices
reporting rc_basis set to 0).

The capacity message output was moved out of sd_read_capacity into
a new function sd_print_capacity to include this eventual capacity
change by sd_zbc_read_zones. This new function also includes a call
to sd_zbc_print_zones to display the number of zones and zone size
of the device.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

[Damien: * Removed zone cache support
         * Removed mapping of discard to reset write pointer command
         * Modified sd_zbc_read_zones to include checks that the
           device satisfies the kernel constraints
         * Implemeted REPORT ZONES setup and post-processing based
           on code from Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
         * Removed confusing use of 512B sector units in functions
           interface]
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-10-18 19:49:11 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 8475c81185 scsi: sd: Move DIF protection types to t10-pi.h
These should go together with the rest of the T10 protection information
defintions.

[mkp: s/T10_DIF/T10_PI/]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-09-15 09:51:14 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 6ebf105cc0 scsi: scsi_debug: Use struct t10_pi_tuple instead of struct sd_dif_tuple
And remove the declaration of the latter in sd.h as scsi_debug was the
only user.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-09-15 09:41:09 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen 6b7e9cde49 sd: Fix rw_max for devices that report an optimal xfer size
For historic reasons, io_opt is in bytes and max_sectors in block layer
sectors. This interface inconsistency is error prone and should be
fixed. But for 4.4--4.7 let's make the unit difference explicit via a
wrapper function.

Fixes: d0eb20a863 ("sd: Optimal I/O size is in bytes, not sectors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Reported-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-06-01 22:07:47 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen f08bb1e0db sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 512 bytes
During revalidate we check whether device capacity has changed before we
decide whether to output disk information or not.

The check for old capacity failed to take into account that we scaled
sdkp->capacity based on the reported logical block size. And therefore
the capacity test would always fail for devices with sectors bigger than
512 bytes and we would print several copies of the same discovery
information.

Avoid scaling sdkp->capacity and instead adjust the value on the fly
when setting the block device capacity and generating fake C/H/S
geometry.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinicke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-03-31 20:59:08 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen ca369d51b3 block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits
Commit 4f258a4634 ("sd: Fix maximum I/O size for BLOCK_PC requests")
had the unfortunate side-effect of removing an implicit clamp to
BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS for REQ_TYPE_FS requests in the block layer
code. This caused problems for some SMR drives.

Debugging this issue revealed a few problems with the existing
infrastructure since the block layer didn't know how to deal with
device-imposed limits, only limits set by the I/O controller.

 - Introduce a new queue limit, max_dev_sectors, which is used by the
   ULD to signal the maximum sectors for a REQ_TYPE_FS request.

 - Ensure that max_dev_sectors is correctly stacked and taken into
   account when overriding max_sectors through sysfs.

 - Rework sd_read_block_limits() so it saves the max_xfer and opt_xfer
   values for later processing.

 - In sd_revalidate() set the queue's max_dev_sectors based on the
   MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH value in the Block Limits VPD. If this value
   is not reported, fall back to a cap based on the CDB TRANSFER LENGTH
   field size.

 - In sd_revalidate(), use OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH from the Block Limits
   VPD--if reported and sane--to signal the preferred device transfer
   size for FS requests. Otherwise use BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.

 - blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() is no longer used and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93581
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: sweeneygj@gmx.com
Tested-by: Arzeets <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Eisner <david.eisner@oriel.oxon.org>
Tested-by: Mario Kicherer <dev@kicherer.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2015-11-25 21:38:58 -05:00
Hannes Reinecke 22e0d99415 scsi: introduce sdev_prefix_printk()
Like scmd_printk(), but the device name is passed in as
a string. Can be used by eg ULDs which do not have access
to the scsi_cmnd structure.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-11-12 11:15:57 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen c611529e7c sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags
A set of flags introduced in the block layer enable better control over
how protection information is handled. These flags are useful for both
error injection and data recovery purposes. Checking can be enabled and
disabled for controller and disk, and the guard tag format is now a
per-I/O property.

Update sd_protect_op to communicate the relevant information to the
low-level device driver via a set of flags in scsi_cmnd.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-30 15:17:35 -06:00
Martin K. Petersen bcdb247c6b sd: Limit transfer length
Until now the per-command transfer length has exclusively been gated by
the max_sectors parameter in the scsi_host template. Given that the size
of this parameter has been bumped to an unsigned int we have to be
careful not to exceed the target device's capabilities.

If the if the device specifies a Maximum Transfer Length in the Block
Limits VPD we'll use that value. Otherwise we'll use 0xffffffff for
devices that have use_16_for_rw set and 0xffff for the rest. We then
combine the chosen disk limit with max_sectors in the host template. The
smaller of the two will be used to set the max_hw_sectors queue limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-07-17 22:07:33 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen b2bff6ceb6 [SCSI] sd: Quiesce mode sense error messages
Messages about discovered disk properties are only printed once unless
they are found to have changed. Errors encountered during mode sense,
however, are printed every time we revalidate.

Quiesce mode sense errors so they are only printed during the first
scan.

[jejb: checkpatch fixes]
Bugzilla: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733565
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2014-03-27 08:26:33 -07:00
James Bottomley 7e660100d8 [SCSI] Derive the FLUSH_TIMEOUT from the basic I/O timeout
Rather than having a separate constant for specifying the timeout on FLUSH
operations, use the basic I/O timeout value that is already configurable
on a per target basis to derive the FLUSH timeout. Looking at the current
definitions of these timeout values, the FLUSH operation is supposed to have
a value that is twice the normal timeout value. This patch preserves this
relationship while leveraging the flexibility of specifying the I/O timeout.

Based on a prior patch by KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>

Reviewed-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-10-25 09:58:16 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen 66c28f9712 [SCSI] sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics
SATA drives located behind a SAS controller would incorrectly receive
WRITE SAME commands. Tweak the heuristics so that:

 - If REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES is provided we will use that to
   choose between WRITE SAME(16), WRITE SAME(10) and disabled. This also
   fixes an issue with the old code which would issue WRITE SAME(10)
   despite the command not being whitelisted in REPORT SUPPORTED
   OPERATION CODES.

 - If REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES is not provided we will fall back
   to WRITE SAME(10) unless the device has an ATA Information VPD page.
   The assumption is that a SATL which is smart enough to implement
   WRITE SAME would also provide REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES.

To facilitate the new heuristics scsi_report_opcode() has been modified
to so we can distinguish between "operation not supported" and "RSOC not
supported".

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-06-26 17:56:18 -07:00
James Bottomley 39c60a0948 [SCSI] sd: fix array cache flushing bug causing performance problems
Some arrays synchronize their full non volatile cache when the sd driver sends
a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command.  Unfortunately, they can have Terrabytes of this
and we send a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE for every barrier if an array reports it has a
writeback cache.  This leads to massive slowdowns on journalled filesystems.

The fix is to allow userspace to turn off the writeback cache setting as a
temporary measure (i.e. without doing the MODE SELECT to write it back to the
device), so even though the device reported it has a writeback cache, the
user, knowing that the cache is non volatile and all they care about is
filesystem correctness, can turn that bit off in the kernel and avoid the
performance ruinous (and safety irrelevant) SYNCHRONIZE CACHE commands.

The way you do this is add a 'temporary' prefix when performing the usual
cache setting operations, so

echo temporary write through > /sys/class/scsi_disk/<disk>/cache_type

Reported-by: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-05-02 16:15:54 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen 5db44863b6 [SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME
Implement support for WRITE SAME(10) and WRITE SAME(16) in the SCSI disk
driver.

 - We set the default maximum to 0xFFFF because there are several
   devices out there that only support two-byte block counts even with
   WRITE SAME(16). We only enable transfers bigger than 0xFFFF if the
   device explicitly reports MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH in the BLOCK
   LIMITS VPD.

 - max_write_same_blocks can be overriden per-device basis in sysfs.

 - The UNMAP discovery heuristics remain unchanged but the discard
   limits are tweaked to match the "real" WRITE SAME commands.

 - In the error handling logic we now distinguish between WRITE SAME
   with and without UNMAP set.

The discovery process heuristics are:

 - If the device reports a SCSI level of SPC-3 or greater we'll issue
   READ SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES to find out whether WRITE SAME(16) is
   supported. If that's the case we will use it.

 - If the device supports the block limits VPD and reports a MAXIMUM
   WRITE SAME LENGTH bigger than 0xFFFF we will use WRITE SAME(16).

 - Otherwise we will use WRITE SAME(10) unless the target LBA is beyond
   0xFFFFFFFF or the block count exceeds 0xFFFF.

 - no_write_same is set for ATA, FireWire and USB.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-11-13 22:45:42 -08:00
Martin K. Petersen 8c579ab69d [SCSI] sd: Avoid remapping bad reference tags
It does not make sense to translate ref tags with unexpected values.
Instead we simply ignore them and let the upper layers catch the
problem. Ref tags that contain the expected value are still remapped.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-09-24 12:10:59 +04:00
Martin K. Petersen 18a4d0a22e [SCSI] Handle disk devices which can not process medium access commands
We have experienced several devices which fail in a fashion we do not
currently handle gracefully in SCSI. After a failure these devices will
respond to the SCSI primary command set (INQUIRY, TEST UNIT READY, etc.)
but any command accessing the storage medium will time out.

The following patch adds an callback that can be used by upper level
drivers to inspect the results of an error handling command. This in
turn has been used to implement additional checking in the SCSI disk
driver.

If a medium access command fails twice but TEST UNIT READY succeeds both
times in the subsequent error handling we will offline the device. The
maximum number of failed commands required to take a device offline can
be tweaked in sysfs.

Also add a new error flag to scsi_debug which allows this scenario to be
easily reproduced.

[jejb: fix up integer parsing to use kstrtouint]
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-02-19 10:14:52 -06:00
Dave Kleikamp 21208ae5a2 [SCSI] sd: remove arbitrary SD_MAX_DISKS namespace limit
There is no reason to limit the SCSI disk namespace to sdXXX.

Add new error messages to sd_probe() in the unlikely event that either
ida_get_new() or sd_format_disk_name() fail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-10-30 12:58:11 +04:00
Martin K. Petersen c98a0eb0e9 [SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
SBC3r26 contains many changes to the Logical Block Provisioning
interfaces (formerly known as Thin Provisioning ditto). This patch
implements support for both the old and new schemes using the same
heuristic as before (whether the LBP VPD page is present).

The new code also allows the provisioning mode (i.e. choice of command)
to be overridden on a per-device basis via sysfs. Two additional modes
are supported in this version:

 - WRITE SAME(10) with the UNMAP bit set

 - WRITE SAME(10) without the UNMAP bit set. This allows us to support
   devices that predate the TP/LBP enhancements in SBC3 and which work
   by way zero-detection

Switching between modes has been consolidated in a helper function that
also updates the block layer topology according to the limitations of
the chosen command.

I experimented with trying WRITE SAME(16) if UNMAP fails, WRITE SAME(10)
if WRITE SAME(16) fails, etc. but found several devices that got
cranky. So for now we'll disable discard if one of the commands
fail. The user still has the option of selecting a different mode in
sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-14 18:37:34 -05:00
Tejun Heo 2bae0093ca [SCSI] sd: implement sd_check_events()
Replace sd_media_change() with sd_check_events().

* Move media removed logic into set_media_not_present() and
  media_not_present() and set sdev->changed iff an existing media is
  removed or the device indicates UNIT_ATTENTION.

* Make sd_check_events() sets sdev->changed if previously missing
  media becomes present.

* Event is reported only if sdev->changed is set.

This makes media presence event reported if scsi_disk->media_present
actually changed or the device indicated UNIT_ATTENTION.  For backward
compatibility, SDEV_EVT_MEDIA_CHANGE is generated each time
sd_check_events() detects media change event.

[jejb: fix boot failure]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-01-14 09:17:34 -06:00
Martin K. Petersen 526f7c7950 [SCSI] sd: Fix overflow with big physical blocks
The hw_sector_size variable could overflow if a device reported huge
physical blocks.  Switch to the more accurate physical_block_size
terminology and make sure we use an unsigned int to match the range
permitted by READ CAPACITY(16).

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-10-11 17:33:20 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen 045d3fe766 [SCSI] sd: Update thin provisioning support
Add support for the Thin Provisioning VPD page and use the TPU and TPWS
bits to switch between UNMAP and WRITE SAME(16) for discards.  If no TP
VPD page is present we fall back to old scheme where the max descriptor
count combined with the max lba count are used trigger UNMAP.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-09-17 13:07:55 -04:00
Mike Christie e3b3e62467 [SCSI] scsi/block: increase flush/sync timeout
We have been seeing the flush request timeout with a wide
range of hardware from tgt+iser to FC targets from a major vendor.

After discussions about if the value should be configurable and
what the best value should be, this patch just increases the flush/sync
cache timeout to 1 minute. 2 minutes was determined to be too long, and
making it configurable was troublesome for users.

This patch was made over Linus's tree. It is not made over scsi-misc
or scsi-rc-fixes, because Linus's had block layer changes that my
patch was built over.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-09-05 14:57:04 -03:00
Arnd Bergmann 409f3499a2 scsi/sd: remove big kernel lock
Every user of the BKL in the sd driver is the
result of the pushdown from the block layer
into the open/close/ioctl functions.

The only place that used to rely on the BKL is
the sdkp->openers variable, which gets converted
into an atomic_t.

Nothing else seems to rely on the BKL, since the
functions do not touch global data without holding
another lock, and the open/close functions are
still protected from concurrent execution using
the bdev->bd_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:26:08 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen e339c1a7c0 [SCSI] sd: WRITE SAME(16) / UNMAP support
Implement a function for handling discard requests that sends either
WRITE SAME(16) or UNMAP(10) depending on parameters indicated by the
device in the block limits VPD.

Extract unmap constraints and report them to the block layer.

Based in part by a patch by Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2009-12-10 08:54:15 -06:00
Martin K. Petersen 4e7392ec58 [SCSI] sd: Support disks formatted with DIF Type 2
Disks formatted with DIF Type 2 reject READ/WRITE 6/10/12/16 commands
when protection is enabled.  Only the 32-byte variants are supported.

Implement support for issusing 32-byte READ/WRITE and enable Type 2
drives in the protection type detection logic.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2009-10-02 09:47:04 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen 35e1a5d90b [SCSI] sd: Detach DIF from block integrity infrastructure
So far we have only issued DIF commands if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is
enabled.  However, communication between initiator and target should be
independent of protection information DMA.  There are DIF-only host
adapters coming out that will be able to take advantage of this.

Move the relevant DIF bits to sd.c.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2009-10-02 09:46:39 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen ea09bcc9c2 sd: Physical block size and alignment support
Extract physical block size and lowest aligned LBA from READ
CAPACITY(16) response and adjust queue parameters.

Report physical block size and alignment when applicable.

[jejb: fix up trailing whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-06-21 10:52:37 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen 70a9b87346 [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
sd_revalidate ends up being called several times during device setup.
With this patch we print everything during the first scan.  Subsequent
invocations will only print a message if the parameter in question has
actually changed (LUN capacity has increased, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-03-17 21:43:52 -04:00
James Bottomley 4c393e6e45 [SCSI] sd: fix compile failure with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY=n
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-15 08:41:28 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen 9e06688e7d [SCSI] sd: Correctly handle all combinations of DIF and DIX
The old detection code couldn't handle all possible combinations of
DIX and DIF.  This version does, giving priority to DIX if the
controller is capable.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-13 09:28:58 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 18351070b8 Re-introduce "[SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors"
This re-introduces commit 2b14290078,
which was reverted due to the regression it caused by commit
fca082c9f1.

That regression was not root-caused by the original commit, it was just
uncovered by it, and the real fix was done by Alan Stern in commit
580da34847 ("Fix USB storage hang on
command abort").

We can thus re-introduce the change that was confirmed by Alan Jenkins
to be still required by his odd card reader.

Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 21:42:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fca082c9f1 Revert "[SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors"
This reverts commit 2b14290078, since it
seems to break some other USB storage devices (at least a JMicron USB to
ATA bridge).  As such, while it apparently fixes some cardreaders, it
would need to be made conditional on the exact reader it fixes in order
to avoid causing regressions.

Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04 16:36:20 -07:00
Alan Jenkins 2b14290078 [SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors
The last_sector_bug flag was added to work around a bug in certain usb
cardreaders, where they would crash if a multiple sector read included the
last sector. The original implementation avoids this by e.g. splitting an 8
sector read which includes the last sector into a 7 sector read, and a single
sector read for the last sector.  The flag is enabled for all USB devices.

This revealed a second bug in other usb cardreaders, which crash when they
get a multiple sector read which stops 1 sector short of the last sector.
Affected hardware includes the Kingston "MobileLite" external USB cardreader
and the internal USB cardreader on the Asus EeePC.

Extend the last_sector_bug workaround to ensure that any access which touches
the last 8 hardware sectors of the device is a single sector long.  Requests
are shrunk as necessary to meet this constraint.

This gives us a safety margin against potential unknown or future bugs
affecting multi-sector access to the end of the device.  The two known bugs
only affect the last 2 sectors.  However, they suggest that these devices
are prone to fencepost errors and that multi-sector access to the end of the
device is not well tested.  Popular OS's use multi-sector accesses, but they
rarely read the last few sectors.  Linux (with udev & vol_id) automatically
reads sectors from the end of the device on insertion.  It is assumed that
single sector accesses are more thoroughly tested during development.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-27 10:16:13 -04:00