kernel.git/drivers/scsi/aacraid/dpcsup.c, branch linux-4.8.y

aacraid: Remove code to needlessly complete fib

2016-04-29T23:08:24Z

Currently driver completes double completed or spurious interrupted fibs. This is not necessary and causes the SCSI mid layer to issue aborts and resets, since completing a fib prematurely might trigger a race condition resulting in the driver not calling the scsi_done callback. Fixed by removing the call to fib complete. Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

aacraid: SCSI blk tag support

2016-02-24T02:27:02Z

The method to allocate and free FIB's in the present code utilizes spinlocks. Multiple IO's have to wait on the spinlock to acquire or free fibs creating a performance bottleneck. An alternative solution would be to use block layer tags to keep track of the fibs allocated and freed. To this end aac_fib_alloc_tag was created to utilize the blk layer tags to plug into the Fib pool.These functions are used exclusively in the IO path. 8 fibs are reserved for the use of AIF management software and utilize the previous spinlock based implementations. Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta Reviewed-by: Shane Seymour Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

aacraid: performance improvement changes

2015-04-09T23:55:21Z

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Murthy Bhat Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

aacraid: MSI-x support

2015-04-09T23:48:15Z

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Murthy Bhat Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support

2012-07-20T07:59:04Z

- Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support added - New scatter/gather list format for Series 7 - Driver converts s/g list to a firmware suitable list for best performance on Series 7, this can be disabled with driver parameter "aac_convert_sgl" for testing purposes - New container read/write command structure for Series 7 - Fast response support for the SCSI pass-through path added - Async. status response buffer changes Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: Add new code for PMC-Sierra's SRC based controller family

2011-03-23T16:36:58Z

Added new hardware device 0x28b interface for PMC-Sierra's SRC based controller family. - new src.c file for 0x28b specific functions - new XPORT header required - sync. command interface: doorbell bits shifted (SRC_ODR_SHIFT, SRC_IDR_SHIFT) - async. Interface: different inbound queue handling, no outbound I2O queue available, using doorbell ("PmDoorBellResponseSent") and response buffer on the host ("host_rrq") for status - changed AIF (adapter initiated FIBs) interface: "DoorBellAifPending" bit to inform about pending AIF, "AifRequest" command to read AIF, "NoMoreAifDataAvailable" to mark the end of the AIFs Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: fix File System going into read-only mode

2010-01-17T18:16:17Z

These particular problems were reported by Cisco and SAP and customers as well. Cisco reported on RHEL4 U6 and SAP reported on SLES9 SP4 and SLES10 SP2. We added these fixes on RHEL4 U6 and gave a private build to IBM and Cisco. Cisco and IBM tested it for more than 15 days and they reported that they did not see the issue so far. Before the fix, Cisco used to see the issue within 5 days. We generated a patch for SLES9 SP4 and SLES10 SP2 and submitted to Novell. Novell applied the patch and gave a test build to SAP. SAP tested and reported that the build is working properly. We also tested in our lab using the tools "dishogsync", which is IO stress tool and the tool was provided by Cisco. Issue1: File System going into read-only mode Root cause: The driver tends to not free the memory (FIB) when the management request exits prematurely. The accumulation of such un-freed memory causes the driver to fail to allocate anymore memory (FIB) and hence return 0x70000 value to the upper layer, which puts the file system into read only mode. Fix details: The fix makes sure to free the memory (FIB) even if the request exits prematurely hence ensuring the driver wouldn't run out of memory (FIBs). Issue2: False Raid Alert occurs When the Physical Drives and Logical drives are reported as deleted or added, even though there is no change done on the system Root cause: Driver IOCTLs is signaled with EINTR while waiting on response from the lower layers. Returning "EINTR" will never initiate internal retry. Fix details: The issue was fixed by replacing "EINTR" with "ERESTARTSYS" for mid-layer retries. Signed-off-by: Penchala Narasimha Reddy Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] Clean up my email address and use a single standard address for everything

2008-12-29T17:24:12Z

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h

2008-04-19T02:22:54Z

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox

[SCSI] aacraid: OS panic after Adapter panic (hardening).

2008-01-23T17:29:21Z

In experiments in the lab we managed to trigger an Adapter firmware panic (BlinkLED) coincidentally while several pass-through ioctl command from the management software were outstanding on a bug only present on a class of RAID Adapters that require a hardware reset rather than a commanded reset. The net result was an attempt to time out the management software command as if it came from the SCSI layer resulting in an OS panic. Adapters that use commanded reset, management commands are returned failed by the Adapter correctly. The adapter firmware panic that resulted in this condition was also resolved, and there were no adapters in the field with this specific firmware bug so we do not expect any field reports. This is a rare or unlikely corner condition, and no reports have ever been forwarded from the field. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn Signed-off-by: James Bottomley