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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/firewire/sbp2.c, branch linux-3.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>firewire: use clamp and min3 macros</title>
<updated>2011-10-09T15:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-18T22:20:48+00:00</published>
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Use kernel.h's convenience macros.  Also omit a printk that should never
happen and won't matter much if it ever happened.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Use kernel.h's convenience macros.  Also omit a printk that should never
happen and won't matter much if it ever happened.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: fold two functions into one</title>
<updated>2011-09-16T20:23:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-27T13:35:23+00:00</published>
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sbp2_release_target() is folded into its primary user, sbp2_remove().
The only other caller, a failure path in sbp2_probe(), now uses
sbp2_remove().  This adds unnecessary cancel_delayed_work_sync() calls
to that failure path but results in less code and text.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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sbp2_release_target() is folded into its primary user, sbp2_remove().
The only other caller, a failure path in sbp2_probe(), now uses
sbp2_remove().  This adds unnecessary cancel_delayed_work_sync() calls
to that failure path but results in less code and text.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: move some code to more sensible places</title>
<updated>2011-09-16T20:23:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-27T13:34:32+00:00</published>
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Implement sbp2_queue_work(), which is now a very simple accessor to one
of the struct sbp2_logical_unit members, right after the definition of
struct sbp2_logical_unit.

Put the sbp2_reconnect() implementation right after the sbp2_login()
implementation.  They are both part of the SBP-2 access protocol.

Implement the driver methods sbp2_probe(), spp2_update(), sbp2_remove()
in this order, reflecting the lifetime of an SBP-2 target.

Place the sbp2_release_target() implementation right next to
sbp2_remove() which is its primary user, and after sbp2_probe() which is
the counterpart to sbp2_release_target().

There are no changes to the implementations here, or at least not meant
to be.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Implement sbp2_queue_work(), which is now a very simple accessor to one
of the struct sbp2_logical_unit members, right after the definition of
struct sbp2_logical_unit.

Put the sbp2_reconnect() implementation right after the sbp2_login()
implementation.  They are both part of the SBP-2 access protocol.

Implement the driver methods sbp2_probe(), spp2_update(), sbp2_remove()
in this order, reflecting the lifetime of an SBP-2 target.

Place the sbp2_release_target() implementation right next to
sbp2_remove() which is its primary user, and after sbp2_probe() which is
the counterpart to sbp2_release_target().

There are no changes to the implementations here, or at least not meant
to be.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: remove obsolete reference counting</title>
<updated>2011-09-16T20:23:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-27T13:33:34+00:00</published>
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Since commit 0278ccd9d53e07c4e699432b2fed9de6c56f506c "firewire: sbp2:
fix panic after rmmod with slow targets", the lifetime of an sbp2_target
instance does no longer extent past the return of sbp2_remove().
Therefore it is no longer necessary to call fw_unit_get/put() and
fw_device_get/put() in sbp2_probe/remove().

Furthermore, said commit also ensures that lu-&gt;work is not going to be
executed or requeued at a time when the sbp2_target is no longer in use.
Hence there is no need for sbp2_target reference counting for lu-&gt;work.

Other concurrent contexts:

  - Processes which access the sysfs of the SCSI host device or of one
    of its subdevices are safe because these interfaces are all removed
    by scsi_remove_device/host() in sbp2_release_target().

  - SBP-2 command block ORB transactions are finished when
    scsi_remove_device() in sbp2_release_target() returns.

  - SBP-2 management ORB transactions are finished when
    cancel_delayed_work_sync(&amp;lu-&gt;work) before sbp2_release_target()
    returns.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Since commit 0278ccd9d53e07c4e699432b2fed9de6c56f506c "firewire: sbp2:
fix panic after rmmod with slow targets", the lifetime of an sbp2_target
instance does no longer extent past the return of sbp2_remove().
Therefore it is no longer necessary to call fw_unit_get/put() and
fw_device_get/put() in sbp2_probe/remove().

Furthermore, said commit also ensures that lu-&gt;work is not going to be
executed or requeued at a time when the sbp2_target is no longer in use.
Hence there is no need for sbp2_target reference counting for lu-&gt;work.

Other concurrent contexts:

  - Processes which access the sysfs of the SCSI host device or of one
    of its subdevices are safe because these interfaces are all removed
    by scsi_remove_device/host() in sbp2_release_target().

  - SBP-2 command block ORB transactions are finished when
    scsi_remove_device() in sbp2_release_target() returns.

  - SBP-2 management ORB transactions are finished when
    cancel_delayed_work_sync(&amp;lu-&gt;work) before sbp2_release_target()
    returns.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: fix panic after rmmod with slow targets</title>
<updated>2011-08-22T22:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Boot</name>
<email>bootc@bootc.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-22T20:38:38+00:00</published>
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If firewire-sbp2 starts a login to a target that doesn't complete ORBs
in a timely manner (and has to retry the login), and the module is
removed before the operation times out, you end up with a null-pointer
dereference and a kernel panic.

[SR:  This happens because sbp2_target_get/put() do not maintain
module references.  scsi_device_get/put() do, but at occasions like
Chris describes one, nobody holds a reference to an SBP-2 sdev.]

This patch cancels pending work for each unit in sbp2_remove(), which
hopefully means there are no extra references around that prevent us
from unloading. This fixes my crash.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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If firewire-sbp2 starts a login to a target that doesn't complete ORBs
in a timely manner (and has to retry the login), and the module is
removed before the operation times out, you end up with a null-pointer
dereference and a kernel panic.

[SR:  This happens because sbp2_target_get/put() do not maintain
module references.  scsi_device_get/put() do, but at occasions like
Chris describes one, nobody holds a reference to an SBP-2 sdev.]

This patch cancels pending work for each unit in sbp2_remove(), which
hopefully means there are no extra references around that prevent us
from unloading. This fixes my crash.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: parallelize login, reconnect, logout</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-01T18:50:31+00:00</published>
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The struct sbp2_logical_unit.work items can all be executed in parallel
but are not reentrant.  Furthermore, reconnect or re-login work must be
executed in a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue.

Hence replace the old single-threaded firewire-sbp2 workqueue by a
concurrency-managed but non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer.
firewire-core already maintains one, hence use this one.

In earlier versions of this change, I observed occasional failures of
parallel INQUIRY to an Initio INIC-2430 FireWire 800 to dual IDE bridge.
More testing indicates that parallel INQUIRY is not actually a problem,
but too quick successions of logout and login + INQUIRY, e.g. a quick
sequence of cable plugout and plugin, can result in failed INQUIRY.
This does not seem to be something that should or could be addressed by
serialization.

Another dual-LU device to which I currently have access to, an
OXUF924DSB FireWire 800 to dual SATA bridge with firmware from MacPower,
has been successfully tested with this too.

This change is beneficial to environments with two or more FireWire
storage devices, especially if they are located on the same bus.
Management tasks that should be performed as soon and as quickly as
possible, especially reconnect, are no longer held up by tasks on other
devices that may take a long time, especially login with INQUIRY and sd
or sr driver probe.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The struct sbp2_logical_unit.work items can all be executed in parallel
but are not reentrant.  Furthermore, reconnect or re-login work must be
executed in a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue.

Hence replace the old single-threaded firewire-sbp2 workqueue by a
concurrency-managed but non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer.
firewire-core already maintains one, hence use this one.

In earlier versions of this change, I observed occasional failures of
parallel INQUIRY to an Initio INIC-2430 FireWire 800 to dual IDE bridge.
More testing indicates that parallel INQUIRY is not actually a problem,
but too quick successions of logout and login + INQUIRY, e.g. a quick
sequence of cable plugout and plugin, can result in failed INQUIRY.
This does not seem to be something that should or could be addressed by
serialization.

Another dual-LU device to which I currently have access to, an
OXUF924DSB FireWire 800 to dual SATA bridge with firmware from MacPower,
has been successfully tested with this too.

This change is beneficial to environments with two or more FireWire
storage devices, especially if they are located on the same bus.
Management tasks that should be performed as soon and as quickly as
possible, especially reconnect, are no longer held up by tasks on other
devices that may take a long time, especially login with INQUIRY and sd
or sr driver probe.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: octlet AT payloads can be stack-allocated</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-01T19:06:42+00:00</published>
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We do not need slab allocations for ORB pointer write transactions
anymore in order to satisfy streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to
commit da28947e7e36 "firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for
small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-sbp2 used to provide
for 8-byte write requests were still not fully portable since they
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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We do not need slab allocations for ORB pointer write transactions
anymore in order to satisfy streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to
commit da28947e7e36 "firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for
small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-sbp2 used to provide
for 8-byte write requests were still not fully portable since they
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: omit Scsi_Host lock from queuecommand</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-22T10:21:44+00:00</published>
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firewire-sbp2 already takes care for internal serialization where
required (ORB list accesses), and it does not use cmd-&gt;serial_number
internally.  Hence it is safe to not grab the shost lock around
queuecommand.

While we are at housekeeping, drop a redundant struct member:
sbp2_command_orb.done is set once in a hot path and dereferenced once in
a hot path.  We can as well dereference sbp2_command_orb.cmd-&gt;scsi_done
instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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firewire-sbp2 already takes care for internal serialization where
required (ORB list accesses), and it does not use cmd-&gt;serial_number
internally.  Hence it is safe to not grab the shost lock around
queuecommand.

While we are at housekeeping, drop a redundant struct member:
sbp2_command_orb.done is set once in a hot path and dereferenced once in
a hot path.  We can as well dereference sbp2_command_orb.cmd-&gt;scsi_done
instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: revert obsolete 'fix stall with "Unsolicited response"'</title>
<updated>2011-03-20T15:45:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-14T23:04:42+00:00</published>
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Now that firewire-core sets the local node's SPLIT_TIMEOUT to 2 seconds
per default, commit a481e97d3cdc40b9d58271675bd4f0abb79d4872 is no
longer required.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Now that firewire-core sets the local node's SPLIT_TIMEOUT to 2 seconds
per default, commit a481e97d3cdc40b9d58271675bd4f0abb79d4872 is no
longer required.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>SCSI host lock push-down</title>
<updated>2010-11-16T21:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-16T07:10:29+00:00</published>
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Move the mid-layer's -&gt;queuecommand() invocation from being locked
with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the
critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway.

The patch below presents a simple SCSI host lock push-down as an
equivalent transformation.  No locking or other behavior should change
with this patch.  All existing bugs and locking orders are preserved.

Additionally, add one parameter to queuecommand,
	struct Scsi_Host *
and remove one parameter from queuecommand,
	void (*done)(struct scsi_cmnd *)

Scsi_Host* is a convenient pointer that most host drivers need anyway,
and 'done' is redundant to struct scsi_cmnd-&gt;scsi_done.

Minimal code disturbance was attempted with this change.  Most drivers
needed only two one-line modifications for their host lock push-down.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move the mid-layer's -&gt;queuecommand() invocation from being locked
with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the
critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway.

The patch below presents a simple SCSI host lock push-down as an
equivalent transformation.  No locking or other behavior should change
with this patch.  All existing bugs and locking orders are preserved.

Additionally, add one parameter to queuecommand,
	struct Scsi_Host *
and remove one parameter from queuecommand,
	void (*done)(struct scsi_cmnd *)

Scsi_Host* is a convenient pointer that most host drivers need anyway,
and 'done' is redundant to struct scsi_cmnd-&gt;scsi_done.

Minimal code disturbance was attempted with this change.  Most drivers
needed only two one-line modifications for their host lock push-down.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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