lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Jan]   [2]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/7] Enhance libsas hotplug feature
From
Date
On 08/12/2017 09:42, Jason Yan wrote:
> Now the libsas hotplug has some issues, Dan Williams report
> a similar bug here before
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg39187.html
>

Hi Martin, James,

At this point we feel that we have a decent solution to the
long-standing libsas hotplug issues.

Hannes has kindly reviewed the series.

Can you let us know what else you require for acceptance? More
independent review or testing?

Thanks,
John

> The issues we have found
> 1. if LLDD burst reports lots of phy-up/phy-down sas events, some events
> may lost because a same sas events is pending now, finally libsas topo
> may different the hardware.
> 2. receive a phy down sas event, libsas call sas_deform_port to remove
> devices, it would first delete the sas port, then put a destruction
> discovery event in a new work, and queue it at the tail of workqueue,
> once the sas port be deleted, its children device will be deleted too,
> when the destruction work start, it will found the target device has
> been removed, and report a sysfs warnning.
> 3. since a hotplug process will be devided into several works, if a phy up
> sas event insert into phydown works, like
> destruction work ---> PORTE_BYTES_DMAED (sas_form_port) ---->PHYE_LOSS_OF_SIGNAL
> the hot remove flow would broken by PORTE_BYTES_DMAED event, it's not
> we expected, and issues would occur.
>
> v4->v5: -process only one expander's revalidation in sas_ex_revalidate_domain()
> -notify event PORTE_BROADCAST_RCVD in sas_enable_revalidation()
> v3->v4: -use dynamic alloced work and support shutting down the phy if active event reached the threshold
> -use flush_workqueue instead of wait-completion to process discover events synchronously
> -direct call probe and destruct function
> v2->v3: some code improvements suggested by Johannes and John,
> split v2 patch 2 into several small pathes.
> v1->v2: some code improvements suggested by John Garry
>
> Jason Yan (7):
> scsi: libsas: Use dynamic alloced work to avoid sas event lost
> scsi: libsas: shut down the PHY if events reached the threshold
> scsi: libsas: make the event threshold configurable
> scsi: libsas: Use new workqueue to run sas event and disco event
> scsi: libsas: use flush_workqueue to process disco events
> synchronously
> scsi: libsas: direct call probe and destruct
> scsi: libsas: notify event PORTE_BROADCAST_RCVD in
> sas_enable_revalidation()
>
> drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_main.c | 6 ++
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 1 -
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c | 34 ++++++-----
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_event.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 8 +--
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_init.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_internal.h | 7 +++
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_phy.c | 69 +++++++++++-----------
> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_port.c | 25 ++++----
> include/scsi/libsas.h | 30 +++++++---
> include/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.h | 1 +
> 11 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
>


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-01-02 12:07    [W:0.123 / U:0.660 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site