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 <ServeRAIDDriver@hcl.in>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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 <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:51:44PM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org] sez:
> > Did anyone run the driver through sparse to see if we have
> > more issues like this?
>
> There are some warnings from sparse, none like this one. I will deal
> with the warnings ...
Actually there are a lot of endianess warnings, fortunately most of them
harmless. The patch below fixes all of them up (including the ones in
the patch I replied to), except for aac_init_adapter which is really odd
and I don't know what to do.
[jejb fixed up rejections and checkpatch issues]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Use of ptrdiff_t in places like
- if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, u_tmp->rx_buf, u_tmp->len))
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (u8 __user *)
+ (ptrdiff_t) u_tmp->rx_buf,
+ u_tmp->len))
is wrong; for one thing, it's a bad C (it's what uintptr_t is for; in general
we are not even promised that ptrdiff_t is large enough to hold a pointer,
just enough to hold a difference between two pointers within the same object).
For another, it confuses the fsck out of sparse.
Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead. There are several places misusing
ptrdiff_t; fixed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Inspired somewhat by Vignesh Babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> patch to
dpt_i2o.c to replace kmalloc/memset sequences with kzalloc, doing the
same for the aacraid driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.
In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.
My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:
arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c
I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.
Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
[PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Unsigned long is not always the same size as a pointer, namely on 32 bit
systems with 64 bit address space. Ptrdiff_t is the same size as a
pointer in all configurations. By using ptrdiff_t we can mitigate the
warning messages on these configurations. There should be no side
effects of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received from Mark Salyzyn,
This set of fixes improve error handling stability of the driver. A popular
manifestation of the problems is an NULL pointer reference in the interrupt
handler when referencing portions of the scsi command context, or in the
scsi_done handling when an offlined device is referenced.
The aacraid driver currently does not get notification of orphaned command
completions due to devices going offline. The driver also fails to handle the
commands that are finished by the error handler, and thus can complete again
later at the hands of the adapter causing situations of completion of an
invalid scsi command context. Test Unit Ready calls abort assuming that the
abort was successful, but are not, and thus when the interrupt from the adapter
occurs, they reference invalid command contexts. We add in a TIMED_OUT flag to
inform the aacraid FIB context that the interrupt service should merely release
the driver resources and not complete the command up. We take advantage of this
with the abort handler as well for select abortable commands. And we detect and
react if a command that can not be aborted is currently still outstanding to
the controller when reissued by the retry mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received from Mark Salyzyn,
This patch is to resolve a namespace issue that will result from a patch
expected in the future that adds a new interface; rationalized as
correcting a long term issue where hw_fib, instead of hw_fib_va, refers
to the virtual address space and hw_fib_pa refers to the physical
address space. A small fragment of this patch also cleans up an unused
variable that was close to the patch fragments.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Received from Mark Salyzyn
This patch allows the FSACTL_SEND_LARGE_FIB, FSACTL_SENDFIB and
FSACTL_SEND_RAW_SRB ioctl calls into the aacraid driver to be
interruptible. Only necessary if the adapter and/or the management
software has gone into some sort of misbehavior and the system is being
rebooted, thus permitting the user management software applications to
be killed relatively cleanly. The FIB queue resource is held out of the
free queue until the adapter finally, if ever, completes the command.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received from Mark Salyzyn
Spelling correction, orphaned comment removal & update branch name.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received From Mark Salyzyn
The queue tracking is just not being used, not even for debugging. Information
about outstanding commands can be acquired from the scsi structures.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received from Mark Salyzyn,
Reduce the possibility of namespace collision. Prefix with aac_.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Received from Mark Salyzyn.
This patch adds the 'new comm' interface, which modern AAC based
adapters that are less than a year old support in the name of much
improved performance. These modern adapters support both the legacy and
the 'new comm' interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch addresses the sparse -Wbitwise warnings that Christoph wanted
me to eliminate. This mostly consisted of making data structure
elements of hardware associated structures the __le* equivalent.
Although there were a couple places where there was mixing of cpu and le
variable math. These changes have been tested on both an x86 and ppc
machine running bonnie++. The usage of the LE32_ALL_ONES macro has been
eliminated.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
