linux-stable.git/drivers/message, branch linux-2.6.33.y

SCSI: mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through

2011-03-21T19:45:45+00:00

commit 2a1b7e575b80ceb19ea50bfa86ce0053ea57181d upstream.

I may have an explanation for the LSI 1068 HBA hangs provoked by ATA
pass-through commands, in particular by smartctl.

First, my version of the symptoms.  On an LSI SAS1068E B3 HBA running
01.29.00.00 firmware, with SATA disks, and with smartd running, I'm seeing
occasional task, bus, and host resets, some of which lead to hard faults of
the HBA requiring a reboot.  Abusively looping the smartctl command,

    # while true; do smartctl -a /dev/sdb > /dev/null; done

dramatically increases the frequency of these failures to nearly one per
minute.  A high IO load through the HBA while looping smartctl seems to
improve the chance of a full scsi host reset or a non-recoverable hang.

I reduced what smartctl was doing down to a simple test case which
causes the hang with a single IO when pointed at the sd interface.  See
the code at the bottom of this e-mail.  It uses an SG_IO ioctl to issue
a single pass-through ATA identify device command.  If the buffer
userspace gives for the read data has certain alignments, the task is
issued to the HBA but the HBA fails to respond.  If run against the sg
interface, neither the test code nor smartctl causes a hang.

sd and sg handle the SG_IO ioctl slightly differently.  Unless you
specifically set a flag to do direct IO, sg passes a buffer of its own,
which is page-aligned, to the block layer and later copies the result
into the userspace buffer regardless of its alignment.  sd, on the other
hand, always does direct IO unless the userspace buffer fails an
alignment test at block/blk-map.c line 57, in which case a page-aligned
buffer is created and used for the transfer.

The alignment test currently checks for word-alignment, the default
setup by scsi_lib.c; therefore, userspace buffers of almost any
alignment are given directly to the HBA as DMA targets.  The LSI 1068
hardware doesn't seem to like at least a couple of the alignments which
cross a page boundary (see the test code below).  Curiously, many
page-boundary-crossing alignments do work just fine.

So, either the hardware has an bug handling certain alignments or the
hardware has a stricter alignment requirement than the driver is
advertising.  If stricter alignment is required, then in no case should
misaligned buffers from userspace be allowed through without being
bounced or at least causing an error to be returned.

It seems the mptsas driver could use blk_queue_dma_alignment() to advertise
a stricter alignment requirement.  If it does, sd does the right thing and
bounces misaligned buffers (see block/blk-map.c line 57).  The following
patch to 2.6.34-rc5 makes my symptoms go away.  I'm sure this is the wrong
place for this code, but it gets my idea across.

Acked-by: Kashyap Desai 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptfusion: Fix Incorrect return value in mptscsih_dev_reset

2011-03-21T19:45:03+00:00

commit bcfe42e98047f1935c5571c8ea77beb2d43ec19d upstream.

There's a branch at the end of this function that
is supposed to normalize the return value with what
the mid-layer expects. In this one case, we get it wrong.

Also increase the verbosity of the INFO level printk
at the end of mptscsih_abort to include the actual return value
and the scmd->serial_number. The reason being success
or failure is actually determined by the state of
the internal tag list when a TMF is issued, and not the
return value of the TMF cmd. The serial_number is also
used in this decision, thus it's useful to know for debugging
purposes.

Reported-by: Peter M. Petrakis 
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c

2011-03-21T19:45:03+00:00

commit 84857c8bf83e8aa87afc57d2956ba01f11d82386 upstream.

Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops.
Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on
mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released.

Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[SCSI] mptfusion : mptscsih_abort return value should be SUCCESS instead of value 0.

2010-02-08T19:40:17+00:00

retval should be SUCCESS/FAILED which is defined at scsi.h
retval = 0 is directing wrong return value. It must be retval = SUCCESS.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] mptsas: Fix issue with chain pools allocation on katmai

2010-01-17T18:16:17+00:00

Since commit 9d2e9d66a3f032667934144cd61c396ba49f090d
mptsas driver fails to allocate memory for the MPT chain buffers
for second LSI adapter on PPC440SPe Katmai platform:
...
ioc1: LSISAS1068E B3: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Unable to allocate Reply, Request, Chain Buffers!
mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - didn't initialize properly! (-3)
mptsas: probe of 0002:31:00.0 failed with error -3

This commit increased MPT_FC_CAN_QUEUE value but initChainBuffers()
doesn't differentiate between SAS and FC causing increased allocation
for SAS case, too. Later pci_alloc_consistent() fails to allocate
increased chain buffer pool size for SAS case.

Provide a fix by looking at the bus type and using appropriate
MPT_SAS_CAN_QUEUE value while calculation of the number of chain
buffers.

Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin 
Acked-by: Kashyap Desai 
Cc: Stable Tree 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

i2o: propogate the BKL down into the ioctl method

2010-01-04T20:31:21+00:00

Nobody seems to want to own I2O patches so sending this one directly.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SCSI] mpt fusion: Fix 32 bit platforms with 64 bit resources.

2009-12-10T15:45:14+00:00

Powerpc 44x uses 36 bit real address while the real address defined in
MPT Fusion driver is of type 32 bit. This causes ioremap to fail and
driver fails to initialize. This fix changes the data types
representing the real address from unsigned long 32-bit types to
resource_size_t which is 64-bit. The driver has been tested, the disks
get discovered correctly and can do IO.

[jejb: added printk fix for resource_size_t object]
Signed-off-by: Pravin Bathija 
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2009-12-10T03:43:33+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
  tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
  reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
  doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
  inotify: remove superfluous return code check
  hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
  doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
  mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
  doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
  tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
  drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
  fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
  sysctl: add missing comments
  fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
  sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
  sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
  tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
  tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
  fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
  spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
  comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
  ...

[SCSI] modify change_queue_depth to take in reason why it is being called

2009-12-04T18:00:41+00:00

This patch modifies scsi_host_template->change_queue_depth so that
it takes an argument indicating why it is being called. This will be
used so that if a LLD needs to do some extra processing when
handling queue fulls or later ramp ups, it can do so.

This is a simple port of the drivers setting a change_queue_depth
callback. In the patch I just have these LLDs adjust the queue depth
if the user was requesting it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 

[Vasu.Dev: v2
	Also converted pmcraid_change_queue_depth and then verified
all modules compile  using "make allmodconfig" for any new build
warnings on X86_64.

	Updated original description after combing two original
patches from Mike to make this patch git bisectable.]
Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev 
[jejb: fixed up 53c700]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place

2009-12-04T14:39:55+00:00

That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina