Generally target core and TCMUser seem to work fine for tape devices and
media changers. But there is at least one situation where TCMUser is not
able to support sequential access device emulation correctly.
The situation is when an initiator sends a SCSI READ CDB with a length that
is greater than the length of the tape block to read. We can distinguish
two subcases:
A) The initiator sent the READ CDB with the SILI bit being set.
In this case the sequential access device has to transfer the data from
the tape block (only the length of the tape block) and transmit a good
status. The current interface between TCMUser and the userspace does
not support reduction of the read data size by the userspace program.
The patch below fixes this subcase by allowing the userspace program to
specify a reduced data size in read direction.
B) The initiator sent the READ CDB with the SILI bit not being set.
In this case the sequential access device has to transfer the data from
the tape block as in A), but additionally has to transmit CHECK
CONDITION with the ILI bit set and NO SENSE in the sensebytes. The
information field in the sensebytes must contain the residual count.
With the below patch a user space program can specify the real read data
length and appropriate sensebytes. TCMUser then uses the se_cmd flag
SCF_TREAT_READ_AS_NORMAL, to force target core to transmit the real data
size and the sensebytes. Note: the flag SCF_TREAT_READ_AS_NORMAL is
introduced by Lee Duncan's patch "[PATCH v4] target: transport should
handle st FM/EOM/ILI reads" from Tue, 15 May 2018 18:25:24 -0700.
Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: ufs, qedf, mpt3sas, lpfc,
xfcp, hisi_sas, cxlflash, qla2xxx.
In the absence of Nic, we're also taking target updates which are
mostly minor except for the tcmu refactor.
The only real core change to worry about is the removal of high page
bouncing (in sas, storvsc and iscsi). This has been well tested and no
problems have shown up so far"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (268 commits)
scsi: lpfc: update driver version to 12.0.0.4
scsi: lpfc: Fix port initialization failure.
scsi: lpfc: Fix 16gb hbas failing cq create.
scsi: lpfc: Fix crash in blk_mq layer when executing modprobe -r lpfc
scsi: lpfc: correct oversubscription of nvme io requests for an adapter
scsi: lpfc: Fix MDS diagnostics failure (Rx < Tx)
scsi: hisi_sas: Mark PHY as in reset for nexus reset
scsi: hisi_sas: Fix return value when get_free_slot() failed
scsi: hisi_sas: Terminate STP reject quickly for v2 hw
scsi: hisi_sas: Add v2 hw force PHY function for internal ATA command
scsi: hisi_sas: Include TMF elements in struct hisi_sas_slot
scsi: hisi_sas: Try wait commands before before controller reset
scsi: hisi_sas: Init disks after controller reset
scsi: hisi_sas: Create a scsi_host_template per HW module
scsi: hisi_sas: Reset disks when discovered
scsi: hisi_sas: Add LED feature for v3 hw
scsi: hisi_sas: Change common allocation mode of device id
scsi: hisi_sas: change slot index allocation mode
scsi: hisi_sas: Introduce hisi_sas_phy_set_linkrate()
scsi: hisi_sas: fix a typo in hisi_sas_task_prep()
...
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- clean up how we pass around gfp_t and
blk_mq_req_flags_t (Christoph)
- prepare us to defer scheduler attach (Christoph)
- clean up drivers handling of bounce buffers (Christoph)
- fix timeout handling corner cases (Christoph/Bart/Keith)
- bcache fixes (Coly)
- prep work for bcachefs and some block layer optimizations (Kent).
- convert users of bio_sets to using embedded structs (Kent).
- fixes for the BFQ io scheduler (Paolo/Davide/Filippo)
- lightnvm fixes and improvements (Matias, with contributions from Hans
and Javier)
- adding discard throttling to blk-wbt (me)
- sbitmap blk-mq-tag handling (me/Omar/Ming).
- remove the sparc jsflash block driver, acked by DaveM.
- Kyber scheduler improvement from Jianchao, making it more friendly
wrt merging.
- conversion of symbolic proc permissions to octal, from Joe Perches.
Previously the block parts were a mix of both.
- nbd fixes (Josef and Kevin Vigor)
- unify how we handle the various kinds of timestamps that the block
core and utility code uses (Omar)
- three NVMe pull requests from Keith and Christoph, bringing AEN to
feature completeness, file backed namespaces, cq/sq lock split, and
various fixes
- various little fixes and improvements all over the map
* tag 'for-4.18/block-20180603' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (196 commits)
blk-mq: update nr_requests when switching to 'none' scheduler
block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submits
dm-crypt: fix warning in shutdown path
lightnvm: pblk: take bitmap alloc. out of critical section
lightnvm: pblk: kick writer on new flush points
lightnvm: pblk: only try to recover lines with written smeta
lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary bio_get/put
lightnvm: pblk: add possibility to set write buffer size manually
lightnvm: fix partial read error path
lightnvm: proper error handling for pblk_bio_add_pages
lightnvm: pblk: fix smeta write error path
lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writes
lightnvm: pblk: rework write error recovery path
lightnvm: pblk: remove dead function
lightnvm: pass flag on graceful teardown to targets
lightnvm: pblk: check for chunk size before allocating it
lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary argument
lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary indirection
lightnvm: pblk: return NVM_ error on failed submission
lightnvm: pblk: warn in case of corrupted write buffer
...
When a tape drive is exported via LIO using the pscsi module, a read
that requests more bytes per block than the tape can supply returns an
empty buffer. This is because the pscsi pass-through target module sees
the "ILI" illegal length bit set and thinks there is no reason to return
the data.
This is a long-standing transport issue, since it assumes that no data
need be returned under a check condition, which isn't always the case
for tape.
Add in a check for tape reads with the ILI, EOM, or FM bits set, with a
sense code of NO_SENSE, treating such cases as if the read
succeeded. The layered tape driver then "does the right thing" when it
gets such a response.
Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Problem:
$ cat /sys/kernel/config/target/core/user_0/block/attrib/qfull_time_out
-1
$ echo "-1" > /sys/kernel/config/target/core/user_0/block/attrib/qfull_time_out
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
Fix:
This patch will help reset qfull_time_out to its default
i.e. qfull_time_out=-1.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar Kalever <prasanna.kalever@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
There are two advantages:
* Direct I/O allows to avoid the write-back cache, so it reduces affects
to other processes in the system.
* Async I/O allows to handle a few commands concurrently.
DIO + AIO shows a better perfomance for random write operations:
Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 1
$ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sda --runtime=20 --numjobs=2
WRITE: bw=45.9MiB/s (48.1MB/s), 21.9MiB/s-23.0MiB/s (22.0MB/s-25.2MB/s), io=919MiB (963MB), run=20002-20020msec
Mode: O_DSYNC Async: 0
$ ./fio --bs=4K --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --name=/dev/sdb --runtime=20 --numjobs=2
WRITE: bw=1607KiB/s (1645kB/s), 802KiB/s-805KiB/s (821kB/s-824kB/s), io=31.8MiB (33.4MB), run=20280-20295msec
Known issue:
DIF (PI) emulation doesn't work when a target uses async I/O, because
DIF metadata is saved in a separate file, and it is another non-trivial
task how to synchronize writing in two files, so that a following read
operation always returns a consisten metadata for a specified block.
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Minor optimization - remove a pointer indirection when using fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Switch everyone to blk_get_request_flags, and then rename
blk_get_request_flags to blk_get_request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
use new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_init() and
tcmu_netlink_send() to refactor netlink event attribute
TCMU_ATTR_WRITECACHE(belongs to TCMU_CMD_RECONFIG_DEVICE) which is also
emulate_write_cache in configFS.
Removed tcmu_netlink_event() since we have new netlink
events helpers now.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
use new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_init() and
tcmu_netlink_send() to refactor netlink event attribute
TCMU_ATTR_DEV_SIZE(belongs to TCMU_CMD_RECONFIG_DEVICE) which is also
dev_size in configFS.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
use new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_init() and
tcmu_netlink_send() to refactor netlink event attribute
TCMU_ATTR_DEV_CFG(belongs to TCMU_CMD_RECONFIG_DEVICE) which is also
dev_config in configFS.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
use new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_init() and
tcmu_netlink_send() to refactor netlink event TCMU_CMD_REMOVED_DEVICE
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
use new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_init() and
tcmu_netlink_send() to refactor netlink event TCMU_CMD_ADDED_DEVICE
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Add new netlink events helpers tcmu_netlink_event_init() and
tcmu_netlink_event_send(). These new functions intend to replace
existing netlink events helper function tcmu_netlink_event().
The existing function tcmu_netlink_event() works well for events like
TCMU_ADDED_DEVICE and TCMU_REMOVED_DEVICE which only has one netlink
attribute. But if there is a command requires more than one attributes
to send out, we have to use a struct to adapt the paremeter
reconfig_data, it is hard to use one struct or a union in one struct to
adapt every command with different attributes, it may get long and ugly.
With the new two functions, we can call tcmu_netlink_event_init() to
initialize a netlink event, then add all attributes we need by using
nla_put_xxx(), at last use tcmu_netlink_event_send() to send it out. So
that we don't need to use a long struct or union if we want to send
mulitple attributes for different commands.
[mkp: typos]
Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lszhu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Correct a function parameter's name to eliminate kernel-doc warnings
in drivers/target/target_core_transport.c.
Fixes these kernel-doc warnings: (tested by adding these files to a new
target.rst documentation file)
../drivers/target/target_core_transport.c:1671: warning: No description found for parameter 'fabric_tmr_ptr'
../drivers/target/target_core_transport.c:1671: warning: Excess function parameter 'fabric_context' description in 'target_submit_tmr'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
The target database root directory, dbroot, has defaulted to /var/target
for a while, but its main client, targetcli-fb, has been moving it to
/etc/target for quite some time. With the plethora of target drivers now
appearing, it has become more difficult to initialize this attribute
before use by any child drivers.
If the directory /etc/target exists, use that as the DB root. Otherwise,
fall back to using /var/target.
The ability to override this dbroot attribute still exists via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>