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scsi: scsi_debug: Add per_host_store option
The scsi_debug driver has always been restricted to using one ramdisk image (or none) for its storage. This means that thousands of scsi_debug devices can be created without exhausting the host machine's RAM. The downside is that all scsi_debug devices share the same ramdisk image. This option changes the way a following write to the add_host parameter (or an add_host in the module/driver invocation) operates. For each new host that is created while per_host_store is true, a new store (of dev-size_mb MiB) is created and associated with all the LUs that belong to that new host. The user (who will need root permissions) needs to take care not to exhaust all the machine's available RAM. One reason for doing this is to check that (partial) disk to disk copies based on scsi_debug devices have actually copied accurately. To test this the add_host=<n> parameter where <n> is 2 or greater can be used when the scsi_debug module is loaded. Let us assume that /dev/sdb and /dev/sg1 are the same scsi_debug device, while /dev/sdc and /dev/sg2 are the same scsi_debug device. With per_host_store=1 add_host=2 they will have different ramdisk images. Then the following pseudocode could be executed to check if the sgh_dd copy worked: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb sgh_dd if=/dev/sg1 of=/dev/sg2 [plus option(s) to test] cmp /dev/sdb /dev/sdc If the cmp fails then the copy has failed (or some other mechanism wrote to /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc in the interim). [mkp: use kstrtobool()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421151424.32668-3-dgilbert@interlog.com Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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