linux/drivers
Kashyap, Desai 0bdccdb0a0 [SCSI] mpt2sas : WarpDrive New product SSS6200 support added
This patch has Support for the new solid state device product SSS6200
from LSI and relavent features w.r.t SSS6200.

The major feature added in this driver is supporting Direct-I/O to the
SSS6200 storage.There are some additional changes done to avoid exposing
the RAID member disks to the OS and hiding/exposing drives based on the
OEM Specific Flag in Manufacturing Page10 (this is required to handle
specific changes in the SSS6200 firmware).

Each and every changes are listed below.
1. Hiding IR related messages.
For SSS6200, the driver is modified not to print IR related events.
Even if the debugging is enabled the IR related messages will not be displayed.
In some places if there is a need to display a message related to IR the
string "IR" is replaced with string "DD" and the string "volume" is replaced
with "direct drive". But the function names are not changed hence there are
some places where the reference to volume can be seen if debug level is set.

2. Removed RAID transport support
In Linux the user can retrieve RAID volume information from the sysfs directory.
This support is removed for SSS6200.

3. Direct I/O support.
The driver tries to enable direct I/O when a volume is reported to the driver
by the firmware through IRCC events and the driver does this just before
reporting to the OS, hence all the OS issued I/O can go through direct path
if they can, The first validation is to see whether the manufacturing page10
flag is set to expose all drives always. If that is set, the driver will not
enable direct I/O and displays the message "DDIO" is disabled globally as
drives are exposed. The driver checks whether there is more than one volume
in the controller, if so the direct I/O will be disabled globally for all
volumes in the controller and the message displayed will be "DDIO is disabled
globally as number of drives > 1.
If retrieving number of PD is failed the driver will not enable direct I/O
and displays the message Failure in computing number of drives DDIO disabled.
If memory allocation for RAIDVolumePage0 is failed, the driver will not enable
direct I/O and displays the message Memory allocation failure for
RVPG0 DDIO disabled.  If retrieving RAIDVolumePage0 is failed the driver will
not enable direct I/O and displays the message Failure in retrieving
RVPG0 DDIO disabled

If the number of PD in a volume is greater than 8, then the direct I/O will
be disabled.
If any of individual drives handle retrieval is failed then the DD-IO will
be disabled.
If the volume is not RAID0 or if the block size is not 512 then the DD-IO will
be disabled.
If the volume size is greater than 2TB then the DD-IO will be disabled.
If the driver is not able to find a valid stripe exponent using the configured
stripe size then the DD-IO will be disabled

When the DD-IO is enabled the driver will check every I/O request issued to
the storage and checks whether the request is either
READ6/WRITE6/READ10/WRITE10, if it is and if the complete I/O transfer
is within a stripe size then the I/O is redirected to
the drive directly instead of the volume.

On completion of every I/O, if the completion is failure means if the reply
is address reply with a reply frame associated with it, then the type of I/O
will be checked, if the I/O is direct then the I/O will be retried to
the volume once.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com>
Reviewed-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-05-01 10:36:54 -05:00
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accessibility
acpi Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
amba PM / Hibernate: Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS 2011-04-11 22:54:42 +02:00
ata Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
atm Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
auxdisplay Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
base Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-04-12 17:18:05 -07:00
block Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
cdrom Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
char Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
clk
clocksource
connector connector: convert to synchronous netlink message processing 2011-03-30 17:14:33 -07:00
cpufreq Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
cpuidle
crypto Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
dca drivers/dca/dca-core.c: use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add() combination 2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
dio
dma Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
edac Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
eisa
firewire Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
firmware sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio 2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
gpio Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
gpu Revert "i915: restore only the mode of this driver on lastclose" 2011-04-13 09:20:24 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
hwmon Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
hwspinlock hwspinlock: depend on OMAP4 2011-03-18 17:15:11 -07:00
i2c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ide Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
idle
ieee802154 ieee802154: change to new flag variable 2011-03-17 14:05:34 +01:00
infiniband Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
isdn Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
leds leds/leds-regulator.c: fix handling of already enabled regulators 2011-04-14 16:06:54 -07:00
lguest Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
macintosh Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
mca
md Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
media Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
memstick Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
message [SCSI] fusion: do not check serial_number in the abort handler 2011-05-01 10:23:54 -05:00
mfd mfd: Fetch cell pointer from platform_device->mfd_cell 2011-04-12 11:13:00 +02:00
misc drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix the wrong members of gru_chip 2011-04-14 16:06:55 -07:00
mmc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mtd Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2011-04-09 13:23:50 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-04-11 07:27:24 -07:00
nfc
nubus
of Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
oprofile
parisc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
parport Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
pci PM / Hibernate: Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS 2011-04-11 22:54:42 +02:00
pcmcia Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
platform Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86 2011-04-13 09:15:55 -07:00
pnp Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
power drivers: Final irq namespace conversion 2011-03-29 14:48:19 +02:00
pps Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ps3 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
rapidio RapidIO/mpc85xx: fix possible mport registration problems 2011-04-14 16:06:56 -07:00
regulator Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
rtc drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: fix unterminated platform_device_id table 2011-04-14 16:06:54 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2011-04-08 07:36:14 -07:00
sbus Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
scsi [SCSI] mpt2sas : WarpDrive New product SSS6200 support added 2011-05-01 10:36:54 -05:00
sfi Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sh sh: Fix irq cleanup fallout 2011-03-30 00:15:49 +02:00
sn
spi Merge branch 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-04-11 15:44:38 -07:00
ssb Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
staging Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86 2011-04-12 15:24:23 -07:00
target Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
tc
telephony Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
thermal
tty Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2011-04-07 12:48:45 -07:00
uio Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
usb [SCSI] usb-storage: do not increment cmd->serial_number 2011-05-01 10:23:09 -05:00
uwb Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
vhost
video Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6 2011-04-07 12:49:17 -07:00
virtio
vlynq vlynq: Convert irq functions 2011-03-28 19:33:04 +02:00
w1 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
watchdog watchdog: mpc8xxx_wdt: fix build 2011-04-07 20:20:24 +00:00
xen Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-04-12 17:18:05 -07:00
zorro
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