When READ_6 command is issued, the setting of SILI Bit in CDB is confirmed and
if SILI bit is off, the processing of relavent Errata is executed.
Earlier we did not have check for SILI bit in READ_6 CDB.
As described in "ssc-r22", Now Driver is checking SILI bit for READ_6.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
treewide: fix a few typos in comments
regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
treewide: remove extra semicolons
...
Shut up
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c: In function 'mptsas_event_process':
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c:5015: warning: unused variable 'log_info'
for configs with CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS_LOGGING unset.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Adding support for inline data padding for TAPE drive when running U320.
[jejb: whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Remove debug print from mptscsih_qcmd function call.
This debug print cause flood of prints and difficult to debug other issues.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
The SCSI midlayer stops all command processing when in error handling, which
means there is no chance for command reuse when the abort handler is called.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Using C line continuation inside format strings is error prone.
Clean up the unintended whitespace introduced by misuse of \.
Neaten correctly used line continations as well for consistency.
drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c has these errors as well,
but arcmsr needs a lot more work and the driver should likely be
moved to staging instead.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
video: change to new flag variable
scsi: change to new flag variable
rtc: change to new flag variable
rapidio: change to new flag variable
pps: change to new flag variable
net: change to new flag variable
misc: change to new flag variable
message: change to new flag variable
memstick: change to new flag variable
isdn: change to new flag variable
ieee802154: change to new flag variable
ide: change to new flag variable
hwmon: change to new flag variable
dma: change to new flag variable
char: change to new flag variable
fs: change to new flag variable
xtensa: change to new flag variable
um: change to new flag variables
s390: change to new flag variable
mips: change to new flag variable
...
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
[SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
[SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
[SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
[SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
[SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
[SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
[SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
[SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
[SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
[SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
[SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
[SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
[SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
[SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
[SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Bus reset is not required for SAS Controller. It is valid for mptspi
and mptfc, but for mptsas it is not required. It is an extra work for
Error handling escallation for mptsas. Removing bus reset from error
handling will eventually speedup Error handling for SAS controller.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
SAS1.0 Controller was not able to detect SAS2.0 Expanders due to Link
RATE detection was limited to 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps for SAS1
controllers. Added detection for 6.0 Gbps link. Now, user can mix-up
6.0 Gpbs links with SAS1.0 controller.
e.g SAS1.0 HBA <----> SAS2.0 Expander <------> SAS2.0 Expander <--------> SAS1.0 Drive.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
A 'kfree(karg)' is missing in a failure path in
mptctl.c::mptctl_getiocinfo() which can cause a memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c
Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
Move the mid-layer's ->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->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 <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
way to serialize their private file operations,
typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
pushdown from VFS.
None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
lock in their file operations, meaning that there
is no lock-order inversion problem.
Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
typos.
file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
else
sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
fi
sed -i ${file} \
-e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
/^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);
} }" \
-e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
-e '/[ ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file} \
-e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@
ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
return ret;
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Fix fusion missing kernel-doc:
Warning(drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:649): No description found for parameter 'func_name'
Warning(drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:8010): No description found for parameter 'cb_idx'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix comment begin notation not to look like kernel-doc
since it's not. Removes kernel-doc warnings.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (28 commits)
[SCSI] qla4xxx: fix compilation warning
[SCSI] make error handling more robust in the face of reservations
[SCSI] tgt: fix warning
[SCSI] drivers/message/fusion: Adjust confusing if indentation
[SCSI] Return NEEDS_RETRY for eh commands with status BUSY
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.9
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix terminate_rport_io
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix rport add/delete race resulting in oops
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: Change LPFC driver version to 8.3.16
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: FCoE Discovery and Failover Fixes
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: SLI Additions, updates, and code cleanup
[SCSI] pm8001: introduce missing kfree
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k3
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Added AER support for ISP82xx
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Handle outstanding mbx cmds on hung f/w scenarios
[SCSI] qla4xxx: updated mbx_sys_info struct to sync with FW 4.6.x
[SCSI] qla4xxx: clear AF_DPC_SCHEDULED flage when exit from do_dpc
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Stop firmware before doing init firmware.
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Use the correct request queue.
[SCSI] qla4xxx: set correct value in sess->recovery_tmo
...
* 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits)
param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks
param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme
param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call
param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme
param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
param: remove unnecessary writable charp
param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h
param: locking for kernel parameters
param: make param sections const.
param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters)
param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.
param: silence .init.text references from param ops
Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver.
nfs: update for module_param_named API change
AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change
param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly
param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions.
...
Fix (delete) empty kernel-doc lines/warnings:
Warning(drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:6916): bad line:
Warning(drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:7060): bad line:
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.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>
Convert everything except ->proc_info() stuff, it is done within separate
->proc_info path series.
Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
786d7e1612 "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
/proc entries"
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.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>
Indent the branch of an if.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r disable braces4@
position p1,p2;
statement S1,S2;
@@
(
if (...) { ... }
|
if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column):
cocci.print_main("branch",p1)
cocci.print_secs("after",p2)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
We should release the resources in error return code path.
The requested pci bars should be released under an error condition,
when mpt_mapresources fails.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Adding function name in original debug prints and few more debug prints are
added.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Issue description:
In multipath topology, when device deletion is in transient state,
multipath driver can call blk_flush_queue() as part of path failure.
Before device get deleted from OS, Device may go OFFLINE as part of error
handling kicked off triggered from multipathing driver. Above condition hits
more frequently if device missing delay timer (which is LSI specific firmware
parameter) is non zero value.
root cause of this issue is Error handling thread is getting kicked off for
device which is not really present(in transient state of deleting).
This patch has solution for this issue. driver is now using eh_timed_out
callback. See below.
mptsas_transport_template->eh_timed_out = mptsas_eh_timed_out
Using mptsas_eh_timed_out function, driver can decide weather vdevice is
under Device missing delay or deleting state.
for either of those cases, there is BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER return to scsi mid
and error handling thread will not be kicked off for that particular scsi
command.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Printing Doorbell register in a case of hard reset and timeout
should be useful for figuring out the state of the system.
Signed-off-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
This patch fixes mptsas disk hot-removal processing. The
hot-removal processing doesn't complete because of this condition.
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c:
mptsas_taskmgmt_complete()
if ((mptsas_find_vtarget(ioc, channel, id)) && !ioc->fw_events_off)
mptsas_queue_device_delete(...);
mptsas_queue_device_delete(), which must be called for
hot-removal, never gets called because mptsas_find_vtarget()
always returns 0 here. At that time, the vtarget has already
been freed in mptsas_target_destroy(), and also the scsi_device
has been marked as SDEV_DEL.
As a result of the issue, port deletion functions won't get
called and the device ends up being in an incomplete state.
(Some data structures and sysfs entries, which should be
removed in hot-removal, remain.) One side effect of this is
that a hot-addition of the device (bringing the device back
on) fails.
This patch just removes mptsas_find_vtarget() from the if-state
condition.
Signed-off-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
In mpt_detach, call to pci_set_drvdata is redundant because it
has already been called in mpt_adapter_disable. In mpt_attach,
ioc->pcidev is set to pdev two times.
Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <bandan.das@stratus.com>
Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Added missing part which will reset ioc_reset_in_progress before returning from SoftResetHandler.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Issue: SATA hotplug does not work sometimes.
At the time of ADD device/ADD phys disk, drive may fail to add SATA device
due to temporary SAS Address for SATA device generated by firmware. Final
SAS address for SATA driver will be generated only after disk spinup is
done. This may take some times for slow spining SATA drives.
At phy link up driver gets attached device sas address and stores into
phyinfo. At the time of ADD event driver will read sas device page0 using
channel and FW ID provided in ADD Device event. Here in case of SATA drives,
driver will see miss match in phyinfo->sas_address and latest sas address
read from SAS DEVICE PAGE0 and eventually device won't be added to OS.
Fix:
When Driver read SAS DEVICE PAGE0, it can identify Device type looking at
device_info. If device is SATA drive and sas address mismatch happens,
Driver will do same stuffs which happened at the time of LINK UP to get
correct piece of information from Pages. ( Find parent device and refresh
parent device phys either HBA refresh/Exp refresh)
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Issue:
target reset will be queued to driver's internal queue to get schedule
later. When driver add target into internal target_reset queue we will block IOs
on those target using scsi midlayer API. Now due to some cause driver is not
executing those target_reset list and it is always in block state.
Changes:
now we are clearing target_reset queue from all other Callback context
instead of only DeviceReset context.Now wherever driver is clearing
taskmgmt_in_progress flag it is considering target_reset queue cleanup
also.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Added sanity check before treating any device is a valid device.
It is possible that firmware can have device page0 in its table, but that
devicemay not be available in topology. Device will be available in topology
only if there is Bus Target mapping is done in firmware. Driver will always
check B_T mapping of firmware before reporting device to upper layer.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
device missing delay is 8 bit value in io unit pg1. Making correct variable
declaration for device_missing_delay.
The driver is storing the calculated device missing delay in IOC structure
as a u8 instead of a u16. It needs to be a u16 if the delay is > 255.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Changed the return value for Nexus Loss IOs to be DID_TRANSPORT_DISRUPTED.
What this will allow is the multi-path driver to delay the fail over
process. They would like the path to keep up as long as the nexus loss
Loginfo is return from firmware. With DID_BUS_BUSY the path fails over
immediately.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
fw_events_off is flag checking for driver to do Event handling or not.
Normally it should be OFF at the time of initialization. Only enable it at
the time of INTR enable of device first time. This will always occur only
after resource allocation.
ioc->fw_events_off = 1 is set in mpt_attach()
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Kashyap, Desai