[dm-devel] [PATCH] scsi_dh_rdac: Add dynamic match functionality to rdac handler
Chandra Seetharaman
sekharan at us.ibm.com
Fri Apr 20 16:27:12 UTC 2012
Babu,
So, in effect, any SCSI devices with INQ C8 page with "edid" would be
treated as a rdac device, right ?
Is that enough to identify _any_ SCSI device as a rdac device (even in
future) ?
Also, instead of repeating the code, can you use submit_inquiry() ?
Chandra
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 17:06 +0000, Moger, Babu wrote:
> This patch adds the dynamic match functionality to scsi_dh_rdac driver.
> New vendor and product strings are normally not there in the kernel. Whenever
> the new product is tested with this driver we see failures during the disco-
> very. Without the handler attached, the default scsi mid-level retries would
> take effect for certain check-conditions. Default retries(5) are not enough in
> some cases(especially with large configuration or huge lun cases).
>
> This patch will send an inquiry if the vendor/product strings are not in the
> device list and match with vendor signature.
>
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger at netapp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <Somasundaram.Krishnasamy at netapp.com>
> ---
>
> --- linux-3.4-rc2/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c.orig 2012-04-07 20:30:41.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-3.4-rc2/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c 2012-04-10 10:48:40.000000000 -0500
> @@ -818,7 +818,10 @@ static const struct scsi_dh_devlist rdac
>
> static bool rdac_match(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> {
> - int i;
> + int i, err;
> + struct c8_inquiry inqp;
> + struct request *rq;
> + struct request_queue *q = sdev->request_queue;
>
> if (scsi_device_tpgs(sdev))
> return false;
> @@ -831,6 +834,27 @@ static bool rdac_match(struct scsi_devic
> return true;
> }
> }
> +
> + /* Now lets try to match the signature on 0xC8 page */
> + memset(&inqp, 0, sizeof(struct c8_inquiry));
> + rq = get_rdac_req(sdev, &inqp, sizeof(struct c8_inquiry), READ);
> + if (!rq)
> + return false;
> +
> + rq->cmd[0] = INQUIRY;
> + rq->cmd[1] = 1;
> + rq->cmd[2] = 0xC8;
> + rq->cmd[4] = sizeof(struct c8_inquiry);
> + rq->cmd_len = COMMAND_SIZE(INQUIRY);
> +
> + err = blk_execute_rq(q, NULL, rq, 1);
> + blk_put_request(rq);
> + if (err != -EIO) {
> + if (inqp.page_id[0] == 'e' && inqp.page_id[1] == 'd' &&
> + inqp.page_id[2] == 'i' && inqp.page_id[3] == 'd')
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> return false;
> }
>
>
>
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