linux-stable.git/drivers/target/target_core_file.c, branch linux-3.5.y

target/file: Use O_DSYNC by default for FILEIO backends

2012-06-03T06:47:20+00:00

Convert to use O_DSYNC for all cases at FILEIO backend creation time to
avoid the extra syncing of pure timestamp updates with legacy O_SYNC during
default operation as recommended by hch.  Continue to do this independently of
Write Cache Enable (WCE) bit, as WCE=0 is currently the default for all backend
devices and enabled by user on per device basis via attrib/emulate_write_cache.

This patch drops the now unnecessary fd_buffered_io= token usage that was
originally signalling when to explictly disable O_SYNC at backend creation
time for buffered I/O operation.  This can end up being dangerous for a number
of reasons during physical node failure, so go ahead and drop this option
for now when O_DSYNC is used as the default.

Also allow explict FUA WRITEs -> vfs_fsync_range() call to function in
fd_execute_cmd() independently of WCE bit setting.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending

2012-05-22T00:37:09+00:00

Pull scsi-target changes from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "There has been lots of work in existing code in a number of areas this
  past cycle.  The major highlights have been:

   * Removal of transport_do_task_sg_chain() from core + fabrics
     (Roland)
   * target-core: Removal of se_task abstraction from target-core and
     enforce hw_max_sectors for pSCSI backends (hch)
   * Re-factoring of iscsi-target tx immediate/response queues (agrover)
   * Conversion of iscsi-target back to using target core memory
     allocation logic (agrover)

  We've had one last minute iscsi-target patch go into for-next to
  address a nasty regression bug related to the target core allocation
  logic conversion from agrover that is not included in friday's
  linux-next build, but has been included in this series.

  On the new fabric module code front for-3.5, here is a brief status
  update for the three currently in flight this round:

   * usb-gadget target driver:

  Sebastian Siewior's driver for supporting usb-gadget target mode
  operation.  This will be going out as a separate PULL request from
  target-pending/usb-target-merge with subsystem maintainer ACKs.  There
  is one minor target-core patch in this series required to function.

   * sbp ieee-1394/firewire target driver:

  Chris Boot's driver for supportting the Serial Block Protocol (SBP)
  across IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware.  This will be going out as a
  separate PULL request from target-pending/sbp-target-merge with two
  additional drivers/firewire/ patches w/ subsystem maintainer ACKs.

   * qla2xxx LLD target mode infrastructure changes + tcm_qla2xxx:

  The Qlogic >= 24xx series HW target mode LLD infrastructure patch-set
  and tcm_qla2xxx fabric driver.  Support for FC target mode using
  qla2xxx LLD code has been officially submitted by Qlogic to James
  below, and is currently outstanding but not yet merged into
  scsi.git/for-next..

    [PATCH 00/22] qla2xxx: Updates for scsi "misc" branch
    http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg59350.html

  Note there are *zero* direct dependencies upon this for-next series
  for the qla2xxx LLD target + tcm_qla2xxx patches submitted above, and
  over the last days the target mode team has been tracking down an
  tcm_qla2xxx specific active I/O shutdown bug that appears to now be
  almost squashed for 3.5-rc-fixes."

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (47 commits)
  iscsi-target: Fix iov_count calculation bug in iscsit_allocate_iovecs
  iscsi-target: remove dead code in iscsi_check_valuelist_for_support
  target: Handle ATA_16 passthrough for pSCSI backend devices
  target: Add MI_REPORT_TARGET_PGS ext. header + implict_trans_secs attribute
  target: Fix MAINTENANCE_IN service action CDB checks to use lower 5 bits
  target: add support for the WRITE_VERIFY command
  target: make target_put_session void
  target: cleanup transport_execute_tasks()
  target: Remove max_sectors device attribute for modern se_task less code
  target: lock => unlock typo in transport_lun_wait_for_tasks
  target: Enforce hw_max_sectors for SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB
  target: remove the t_se_count field in struct se_cmd
  target: remove the t_task_cdbs_ex_left field in struct se_cmd
  target: remove the t_task_cdbs_left field in struct se_cmd
  target: remove struct se_task
  target: move the state and execute lists to the command
  target: simplify command to task linkage
  target: always allocate a single task
  target: replace ->execute_task with ->execute_cmd
  target: remove the task_sectors field in struct se_task
  ...

target: Fix bug in handling of FILEIO + block_device resize ops

2012-05-17T19:02:43+00:00

This patch fixes a bug in the handling of FILEIO w/ underlying block_device
resize operations where the original fd_dev->fd_dev_size was incorrectly being
used in fd_get_blocks() for READ_CAPACITY response payloads.

This patch avoids using fd_dev->fd_dev_size for FILEIO devices with
an underlying block_device, and instead changes fd_get_blocks() to
get the sector count directly from i_size_read() as recommended by hch.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: remove struct se_task

2012-05-06T22:11:26+00:00

We can use struct se_cmd for everything it did.  Make sure to pass the S/G
list and data direction to the execution function to ease adding back BIDI
support later on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: replace ->execute_task with ->execute_cmd

2012-05-06T22:11:14+00:00

Make CDB emulation work on commands instead of tasks again as a preparation
of removing tasks completely.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: remove the task_size field in struct se_task

2012-05-06T22:03:41+00:00

Now that we don't split commands the size field in the task is always
equivalent to the one in the CDB, even in cases where we have two tasks
due to a BIDI transfer.  Just refer the the size in the command instead
of duplicating it in the task.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: remove the task_lba field in struct se_task

2012-05-06T22:02:59+00:00

Now that we don't split commands the lba field in the task is always
equivalent to the one in the CDB, even in cases where we have two tasks
due to a BIDI transfer.  Just refer the the lba in the command instead
of duplicating it in the task.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target/iscsi: Misc cleanups from Agrover (round 2)

2012-04-15T00:40:35+00:00

This patch includes the handful of squashed patches for target/iscsi from
Andy's original series into lio-core/master code:

*) Make iscsit_add_reject static
*) Remove unused data_offset_end from iscsi_datain_req
*) Remove "#if 0" stubs
*) Rename iscsi_datain_req to cmd_datain_node
*) Cleanups for built_r2ts_for_cmd()
*) Cleanups for Cleanup build_sendtargets_response()

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: remove useless casts

2011-12-14T11:28:07+00:00

A reader should spend an extra moment whenever noticing a cast,
because either something special is going on that deserves extra
attention or, as is all too often the case, the code is wrong.

These casts, afaics, have all been useless.  They cast a foo* to a
foo*, cast a void* to the assigned type, cast a foo* to void*, before
assigning it to a void* variable, etc.

In a few cases I also removed an additional &...[0], which is equally
useless.

Lastly I added three FIXMEs where, to the best of my judgement, the
code appears to have a bug.  It would be good if someone could check
these.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

target: use \n as a separator for configuration

2011-12-14T11:27:23+00:00

The command
| echo rd_pages=32768 > ramdisk/control

Does not work because it writes "rd_pages=32768\n" and the parser which
matches for "rd_pages=%d" does not recognize it due to the \n. One way
of fixing this would be using "echo -n" instead.
This patch adds \n to the list of separators so we don't have to use the
-n argument which I find is more convinient.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger