Further to a January 2013 thread titled: "[PATCH] SG_SCSI_RESET ioctl
should only perform requested operation" by Jeremy Linton a patch (v3)
is presented that expands the existing ioctl to include "no_escalate"
versions to the existing resets. This requires no changes to SCSI low
level drivers (LLDs); it adds several more finely tuned reset options
to the user space. For example:
/* This call remains the same, with the same escalating semantics
* if the device (LU) reset fail. That is: on failure to try a
* target reset and if that fails, try a bus reset, and if that fails
* try a host (i.e. LLD) reset. */
val = SG_SCSI_RESET_DEVICE;
res = ioctl(<sg_or_block_fd>, SG_SCSI_RESET, &val);
/* What follows is a new option introduced by this patch series. Only
* a device reset is attempted. If that fails then an appropriate
* error code is provided. N.B. There is no reset escalation. */
val = SG_SCSI_RESET_DEVICE | SG_SCSI_RESET_NO_ESCALATE;
res = ioctl(<sg_or_block_fd>, SG_SCSI_RESET, &val);
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Linton <jlinton@tributary.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
"Nothing out of the ordinary here, this pull request contains:
- A big round of fixes for bcache from Kent Overstreet, Slava Pestov,
and Surbhi Palande. No new features, just a lot of fixes.
- The usual round of drbd updates from Andreas Gruenbacher, Lars
Ellenberg, and Philipp Reisner.
- virtio_blk was converted to blk-mq back in 3.13, but now Ming Lei
has taken it one step further and added support for actually using
more than one queue.
- Addition of an explicit SG_FLAG_Q_AT_HEAD for block/bsg, to
compliment the the default behavior of adding to the tail of the
queue. From Douglas Gilbert"
* 'for-3.17/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (86 commits)
bcache: Drop unneeded blk_sync_queue() calls
bcache: add mutex lock for bch_is_open
bcache: Correct printing of btree_gc_max_duration_ms
bcache: try to set b->parent properly
bcache: fix memory corruption in init error path
bcache: fix crash with incomplete cache set
bcache: Fix more early shutdown bugs
bcache: fix use-after-free in btree_gc_coalesce()
bcache: Fix an infinite loop in journal replay
bcache: fix crash in bcache_btree_node_alloc_fail tracepoint
bcache: bcache_write tracepoint was crashing
bcache: fix typo in bch_bkey_equal_header
bcache: Allocate bounce buffers with GFP_NOWAIT
bcache: Make sure to pass GFP_WAIT to mempool_alloc()
bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread
bcache: wait for buckets when allocating new btree root
bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode
bcache: fix lockdep warnings on shutdown
bcache allocator: send discards with correct size
bcache: Fix to remove the rcu_sched stalls.
...
When the SG_IO ioctl was copied into the block layer and
later into the bsg driver, subtle differences emerged.
One difference is the way injected commands are queued through
the block layer (i.e. this is not SCSI device queueing nor SATA
NCQ). Summarizing:
- SG_IO in the block layer: blk_exec*(at_head=false)
- sg SG_IO: at_head=true
- bsg SG_IO: at_head=true
Some time ago Boaz Harrosh introduced a sg v4 flag called
BSG_FLAG_Q_AT_TAIL to override the bsg driver default.
This patch does the equivalent for the sg driver.
ChangeLog:
Introduce SG_FLAG_Q_AT_TAIL flag to cause commands
to be injected into the block layer with
at_head=false.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
- remove the 16 byte CDB (SCSI command) length limit from the sg driver
by handling longer CDBs the same way as the bsg driver. Remove comment
from sg.h public interface about the cmd_len field being limited to 16
bytes.
- remove some dead code caused by this change
- cleanup comment block at the top of sg.h, fix urls
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
After the SG_IO ioctl was copied into the block layer and
later into the bsg driver, subtle differences emerged.
One difference is the way injected commands are queued through
the block layer (i.e. this is not SCSI device queueing nor SATA
NCQ). Summarizing:
- SG_IO on block layer device: blk_exec*(at_head=false)
- sg device SG_IO: at_head=true
- bsg device SG_IO: at_head=true
Some time ago Boaz Harrosh introduced a sg v4 flag called
BSG_FLAG_Q_AT_TAIL to override the bsg driver default. A
recent patch titled: "sg: add SG_FLAG_Q_AT_TAIL flag"
allowed the sg driver default to be overridden. This patch
allows a SG_IO ioctl sent to a block layer device to have
its default overridden.
ChangeLog:
- introduce SG_FLAG_Q_AT_HEAD flag in sg.h to cause
commands that are injected via a block layer
device SG_IO ioctl to set at_head=true
- make comments clearer about queueing in sg.h since the
header is used both by the sg device and block layer
device implementations of the SG_IO ioctl.
- introduce BSG_FLAG_Q_AT_HEAD in bsg.h for compatibility
(it does nothing) and update comments.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.
Move sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds support for target reset to SG_SCSI_RESET.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This sg driver patch addresses the problem with larger
page sizes reported by Brian King in this post:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115867718623631&w=2
Some other related matters are also addressed. Some of these
prevent oopses when the SG_SCATTER_SZ or scatter_elem_sz are
set to inappropriate values.
The scatter_elem_sz has been tested up to 4 MB which should
make the largest data transfer with one SCSI command, 32 MB
less one block, achievable with a relatively small number
of elements in the scatter gather list.
ChangeLog:
- add scatter_elem_sz boot time parameter and sysfs module
parameter that is initialized to SG_SCATTER_SZ
- the driver will then adjust scatter_elem_sz to be the
max(given(scatter_elem_sz), PAGE_SIZE)
It will also round it up, if necessary, to be a power
of two
- clean up sg.h header, correct bad urls and some statements
that are no longer valid
- make the def_reserved_size sysfs module attribute writable
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Douglas Gilbert