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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.rst b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..104d09e9a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.rst @@ -0,0 +1,513 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======= +SCSI EH +======= + +This document describes SCSI midlayer error handling infrastructure. +Please refer to Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.rst for more +information regarding SCSI midlayer. + +.. TABLE OF CONTENTS + + [1] How SCSI commands travel through the midlayer and to EH + [1-1] struct scsi_cmnd + [1-2] How do scmd's get completed? + [1-2-1] Completing a scmd w/ scsi_done + [1-2-2] Completing a scmd w/ timeout + [1-3] How EH takes over + [2] How SCSI EH works + [2-1] EH through fine-grained callbacks + [2-1-1] Overview + [2-1-2] Flow of scmds through EH + [2-1-3] Flow of control + [2-2] EH through transportt->eh_strategy_handler() + [2-2-1] Pre transportt->eh_strategy_handler() SCSI midlayer conditions + [2-2-2] Post transportt->eh_strategy_handler() SCSI midlayer conditions + [2-2-3] Things to consider + + +1. How SCSI commands travel through the midlayer and to EH +========================================================== + +1.1 struct scsi_cmnd +-------------------- + +Each SCSI command is represented with struct scsi_cmnd (== scmd). A +scmd has two list_head's to link itself into lists. The two are +scmd->list and scmd->eh_entry. The former is used for free list or +per-device allocated scmd list and not of much interest to this EH +discussion. The latter is used for completion and EH lists and unless +otherwise stated scmds are always linked using scmd->eh_entry in this +discussion. + + +1.2 How do scmd's get completed? +-------------------------------- + +Once LLDD gets hold of a scmd, either the LLDD will complete the +command by calling scsi_done callback passed from midlayer when +invoking hostt->queuecommand() or the block layer will time it out. + + +1.2.1 Completing a scmd w/ scsi_done +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +For all non-EH commands, scsi_done() is the completion callback. It +just calls blk_complete_request() to delete the block layer timer and +raise SCSI_SOFTIRQ + +SCSI_SOFTIRQ handler scsi_softirq calls scsi_decide_disposition() to +determine what to do with the command. scsi_decide_disposition() +looks at the scmd->result value and sense data to determine what to do +with the command. + + - SUCCESS + + scsi_finish_command() is invoked for the command. The + function does some maintenance chores and then calls + scsi_io_completion() to finish the I/O. + scsi_io_completion() then notifies the block layer on + the completed request by calling blk_end_request and + friends or figures out what to do with the remainder + of the data in case of an error. + + - NEEDS_RETRY + + - ADD_TO_MLQUEUE + + scmd is requeued to blk queue. + + - otherwise + + scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd) is invoked for the command. See + [1-3] for details of this function. + + +1.2.2 Completing a scmd w/ timeout +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The timeout handler is scsi_timeout(). When a timeout occurs, this function + + 1. invokes optional hostt->eh_timed_out() callback. Return value can + be one of + + - SCSI_EH_RESET_TIMER + This indicates that more time is required to finish the + command. Timer is restarted. + + - SCSI_EH_NOT_HANDLED + eh_timed_out() callback did not handle the command. + Step #2 is taken. + + - SCSI_EH_DONE + eh_timed_out() completed the command. + + 2. scsi_abort_command() is invoked to schedule an asynchronous abort which may + issue a retry scmd->allowed + 1 times. Asynchronous aborts are not invoked + for commands for which the SCSI_EH_ABORT_SCHEDULED flag is set (this + indicates that the command already had been aborted once, and this is a + retry which failed), when retries are exceeded, or when the EH deadline is + expired. In these cases Step #3 is taken. + + 3. scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd, SCSI_EH_CANCEL_CMD) is invoked for the + command. See [1-4] for more information. + +1.3 Asynchronous command aborts +------------------------------- + + After a timeout occurs a command abort is scheduled from + scsi_abort_command(). If the abort is successful the command + will either be retried (if the number of retries is not exhausted) + or terminated with DID_TIME_OUT. + + Otherwise scsi_eh_scmd_add() is invoked for the command. + See [1-4] for more information. + +1.4 How EH takes over +--------------------- + +scmds enter EH via scsi_eh_scmd_add(), which does the following. + + 1. Links scmd->eh_entry to shost->eh_cmd_q + + 2. Sets SHOST_RECOVERY bit in shost->shost_state + + 3. Increments shost->host_failed + + 4. Wakes up SCSI EH thread if shost->host_busy == shost->host_failed + +As can be seen above, once any scmd is added to shost->eh_cmd_q, +SHOST_RECOVERY shost_state bit is turned on. This prevents any new +scmd to be issued from blk queue to the host; eventually, all scmds on +the host either complete normally, fail and get added to eh_cmd_q, or +time out and get added to shost->eh_cmd_q. + +If all scmds either complete or fail, the number of in-flight scmds +becomes equal to the number of failed scmds - i.e. shost->host_busy == +shost->host_failed. This wakes up SCSI EH thread. So, once woken up, +SCSI EH thread can expect that all in-flight commands have failed and +are linked on shost->eh_cmd_q. + +Note that this does not mean lower layers are quiescent. If a LLDD +completed a scmd with error status, the LLDD and lower layers are +assumed to forget about the scmd at that point. However, if a scmd +has timed out, unless hostt->eh_timed_out() made lower layers forget +about the scmd, which currently no LLDD does, the command is still +active as long as lower layers are concerned and completion could +occur at any time. Of course, all such completions are ignored as the +timer has already expired. + +We'll talk about how SCSI EH takes actions to abort - make LLDD +forget about - timed out scmds later. + + +2. How SCSI EH works +==================== + +LLDD's can implement SCSI EH actions in one of the following two +ways. + + - Fine-grained EH callbacks + LLDD can implement fine-grained EH callbacks and let SCSI + midlayer drive error handling and call appropriate callbacks. + This will be discussed further in [2-1]. + + - eh_strategy_handler() callback + This is one big callback which should perform whole error + handling. As such, it should do all chores the SCSI midlayer + performs during recovery. This will be discussed in [2-2]. + +Once recovery is complete, SCSI EH resumes normal operation by +calling scsi_restart_operations(), which + + 1. Checks if door locking is needed and locks door. + + 2. Clears SHOST_RECOVERY shost_state bit + + 3. Wakes up waiters on shost->host_wait. This occurs if someone + calls scsi_block_when_processing_errors() on the host. + (*QUESTION* why is it needed? All operations will be blocked + anyway after it reaches blk queue.) + + 4. Kicks queues in all devices on the host in the asses + + +2.1 EH through fine-grained callbacks +------------------------------------- + +2.1.1 Overview +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +If eh_strategy_handler() is not present, SCSI midlayer takes charge +of driving error handling. EH's goals are two - make LLDD, host and +device forget about timed out scmds and make them ready for new +commands. A scmd is said to be recovered if the scmd is forgotten by +lower layers and lower layers are ready to process or fail the scmd +again. + +To achieve these goals, EH performs recovery actions with increasing +severity. Some actions are performed by issuing SCSI commands and +others are performed by invoking one of the following fine-grained +hostt EH callbacks. Callbacks may be omitted and omitted ones are +considered to fail always. + +:: + + int (* eh_abort_handler)(struct scsi_cmnd *); + int (* eh_device_reset_handler)(struct scsi_cmnd *); + int (* eh_bus_reset_handler)(struct scsi_cmnd *); + int (* eh_host_reset_handler)(struct scsi_cmnd *); + +Higher-severity actions are taken only when lower-severity actions +cannot recover some of failed scmds. Also, note that failure of the +highest-severity action means EH failure and results in offlining of +all unrecovered devices. + +During recovery, the following rules are followed + + - Recovery actions are performed on failed scmds on the to do list, + eh_work_q. If a recovery action succeeds for a scmd, recovered + scmds are removed from eh_work_q. + + Note that single recovery action on a scmd can recover multiple + scmds. e.g. resetting a device recovers all failed scmds on the + device. + + - Higher severity actions are taken iff eh_work_q is not empty after + lower severity actions are complete. + + - EH reuses failed scmds to issue commands for recovery. For + timed-out scmds, SCSI EH ensures that LLDD forgets about a scmd + before reusing it for EH commands. + +When a scmd is recovered, the scmd is moved from eh_work_q to EH +local eh_done_q using scsi_eh_finish_cmd(). After all scmds are +recovered (eh_work_q is empty), scsi_eh_flush_done_q() is invoked to +either retry or error-finish (notify upper layer of failure) recovered +scmds. + +scmds are retried iff its sdev is still online (not offlined during +EH), REQ_FAILFAST is not set and ++scmd->retries is less than +scmd->allowed. + + +2.1.2 Flow of scmds through EH +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + 1. Error completion / time out + + :ACTION: scsi_eh_scmd_add() is invoked for scmd + + - add scmd to shost->eh_cmd_q + - set SHOST_RECOVERY + - shost->host_failed++ + + :LOCKING: shost->host_lock + + 2. EH starts + + :ACTION: move all scmds to EH's local eh_work_q. shost->eh_cmd_q + is cleared. + + :LOCKING: shost->host_lock (not strictly necessary, just for + consistency) + + 3. scmd recovered + + :ACTION: scsi_eh_finish_cmd() is invoked to EH-finish scmd + + - scsi_setup_cmd_retry() + - move from local eh_work_q to local eh_done_q + + :LOCKING: none + + :CONCURRENCY: at most one thread per separate eh_work_q to + keep queue manipulation lockless + + 4. EH completes + + :ACTION: scsi_eh_flush_done_q() retries scmds or notifies upper + layer of failure. May be called concurrently but must have + a no more than one thread per separate eh_work_q to + manipulate the queue locklessly + + - scmd is removed from eh_done_q and scmd->eh_entry is cleared + - if retry is necessary, scmd is requeued using + scsi_queue_insert() + - otherwise, scsi_finish_command() is invoked for scmd + - zero shost->host_failed + + :LOCKING: queue or finish function performs appropriate locking + + +2.1.3 Flow of control +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + EH through fine-grained callbacks start from scsi_unjam_host(). + +``scsi_unjam_host`` + + 1. Lock shost->host_lock, splice_init shost->eh_cmd_q into local + eh_work_q and unlock host_lock. Note that shost->eh_cmd_q is + cleared by this action. + + 2. Invoke scsi_eh_get_sense. + + ``scsi_eh_get_sense`` + + This action is taken for each error-completed + (!SCSI_EH_CANCEL_CMD) commands without valid sense data. Most + SCSI transports/LLDDs automatically acquire sense data on + command failures (autosense). Autosense is recommended for + performance reasons and as sense information could get out of + sync between occurrence of CHECK CONDITION and this action. + + Note that if autosense is not supported, scmd->sense_buffer + contains invalid sense data when error-completing the scmd + with scsi_done(). scsi_decide_disposition() always returns + FAILED in such cases thus invoking SCSI EH. When the scmd + reaches here, sense data is acquired and + scsi_decide_disposition() is called again. + + 1. Invoke scsi_request_sense() which issues REQUEST_SENSE + command. If fails, no action. Note that taking no action + causes higher-severity recovery to be taken for the scmd. + + 2. Invoke scsi_decide_disposition() on the scmd + + - SUCCESS + scmd->retries is set to scmd->allowed preventing + scsi_eh_flush_done_q() from retrying the scmd and + scsi_eh_finish_cmd() is invoked. + + - NEEDS_RETRY + scsi_eh_finish_cmd() invoked + + - otherwise + No action. + + 3. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_abort_cmds(). + + ``scsi_eh_abort_cmds`` + + This action is taken for each timed out command when + no_async_abort is enabled in the host template. + hostt->eh_abort_handler() is invoked for each scmd. The + handler returns SUCCESS if it has succeeded to make LLDD and + all related hardware forget about the scmd. + + If a timedout scmd is successfully aborted and the sdev is + either offline or ready, scsi_eh_finish_cmd() is invoked for + the scmd. Otherwise, the scmd is left in eh_work_q for + higher-severity actions. + + Note that both offline and ready status mean that the sdev is + ready to process new scmds, where processing also implies + immediate failing; thus, if a sdev is in one of the two + states, no further recovery action is needed. + + Device readiness is tested using scsi_eh_tur() which issues + TEST_UNIT_READY command. Note that the scmd must have been + aborted successfully before reusing it for TEST_UNIT_READY. + + 4. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_ready_devs() + + ``scsi_eh_ready_devs`` + + This function takes four increasingly more severe measures to + make failed sdevs ready for new commands. + + 1. Invoke scsi_eh_stu() + + ``scsi_eh_stu`` + + For each sdev which has failed scmds with valid sense data + of which scsi_check_sense()'s verdict is FAILED, + START_STOP_UNIT command is issued w/ start=1. Note that + as we explicitly choose error-completed scmds, it is known + that lower layers have forgotten about the scmd and we can + reuse it for STU. + + If STU succeeds and the sdev is either offline or ready, + all failed scmds on the sdev are EH-finished with + scsi_eh_finish_cmd(). + + *NOTE* If hostt->eh_abort_handler() isn't implemented or + failed, we may still have timed out scmds at this point + and STU doesn't make lower layers forget about those + scmds. Yet, this function EH-finish all scmds on the sdev + if STU succeeds leaving lower layers in an inconsistent + state. It seems that STU action should be taken only when + a sdev has no timed out scmd. + + 2. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_bus_device_reset(). + + ``scsi_eh_bus_device_reset`` + + This action is very similar to scsi_eh_stu() except that, + instead of issuing STU, hostt->eh_device_reset_handler() + is used. Also, as we're not issuing SCSI commands and + resetting clears all scmds on the sdev, there is no need + to choose error-completed scmds. + + 3. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_bus_reset() + + ``scsi_eh_bus_reset`` + + hostt->eh_bus_reset_handler() is invoked for each channel + with failed scmds. If bus reset succeeds, all failed + scmds on all ready or offline sdevs on the channel are + EH-finished. + + 4. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_host_reset() + + ``scsi_eh_host_reset`` + + This is the last resort. hostt->eh_host_reset_handler() + is invoked. If host reset succeeds, all failed scmds on + all ready or offline sdevs on the host are EH-finished. + + 5. If !list_empty(&eh_work_q), invoke scsi_eh_offline_sdevs() + + ``scsi_eh_offline_sdevs`` + + Take all sdevs which still have unrecovered scmds offline + and EH-finish the scmds. + + 5. Invoke scsi_eh_flush_done_q(). + + ``scsi_eh_flush_done_q`` + + At this point all scmds are recovered (or given up) and + put on eh_done_q by scsi_eh_finish_cmd(). This function + flushes eh_done_q by either retrying or notifying upper + layer of failure of the scmds. + + +2.2 EH through transportt->eh_strategy_handler() +------------------------------------------------ + +transportt->eh_strategy_handler() is invoked in the place of +scsi_unjam_host() and it is responsible for whole recovery process. +On completion, the handler should have made lower layers forget about +all failed scmds and either ready for new commands or offline. Also, +it should perform SCSI EH maintenance chores to maintain integrity of +SCSI midlayer. IOW, of the steps described in [2-1-2], all steps +except for #1 must be implemented by eh_strategy_handler(). + + +2.2.1 Pre transportt->eh_strategy_handler() SCSI midlayer conditions +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + The following conditions are true on entry to the handler. + + - Each failed scmd's eh_flags field is set appropriately. + + - Each failed scmd is linked on scmd->eh_cmd_q by scmd->eh_entry. + + - SHOST_RECOVERY is set. + + - shost->host_failed == shost->host_busy + + +2.2.2 Post transportt->eh_strategy_handler() SCSI midlayer conditions +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + The following conditions must be true on exit from the handler. + + - shost->host_failed is zero. + + - Each scmd is in such a state that scsi_setup_cmd_retry() on the + scmd doesn't make any difference. + + - shost->eh_cmd_q is cleared. + + - Each scmd->eh_entry is cleared. + + - Either scsi_queue_insert() or scsi_finish_command() is called on + each scmd. Note that the handler is free to use scmd->retries and + ->allowed to limit the number of retries. + + +2.2.3 Things to consider +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + - Know that timed out scmds are still active on lower layers. Make + lower layers forget about them before doing anything else with + those scmds. + + - For consistency, when accessing/modifying shost data structure, + grab shost->host_lock. + + - On completion, each failed sdev must have forgotten about all + active scmds. + + - On completion, each failed sdev must be ready for new commands or + offline. + + +Tejun Heo +htejun@gmail.com + +11th September 2005 |