From 5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:24:12 -0800 Subject: Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 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(). ... --- Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst | 2169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 2169 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst (limited to 'Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c41cec99f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2169 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================================================= +The Linux NCR53C8XX/SYM53C8XX drivers README file +================================================= + +Written by Gerard Roudier + +21 Rue Carnot + +95170 DEUIL LA BARRE - FRANCE + +29 May 1999 + +.. Contents: + + 1. Introduction + 2. Supported chips and SCSI features + 3. Advantages of the enhanced 896 driver + 3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS + 3.2 New features of the SYM53C896 (64 bit PCI dual LVD SCSI controller) + 4. Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O + 5. Tagged command queueing + 6. Parity checking + 7. Profiling information + 8. Control commands + 8.1 Set minimum synchronous period + 8.2 Set wide size + 8.3 Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands + 8.4 Set order type for tagged command + 8.5 Set debug mode + 8.6 Clear profile counters + 8.7 Set flag (no_disc) + 8.8 Set verbose level + 8.9 Reset all logical units of a target + 8.10 Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target + 9. Configuration parameters + 10. Boot setup commands + 10.1 Syntax + 10.2 Available arguments + 10.2.1 Master parity checking + 10.2.2 Scsi parity checking + 10.2.3 Scsi disconnections + 10.2.4 Special features + 10.2.5 Ultra SCSI support + 10.2.6 Default number of tagged commands + 10.2.7 Default synchronous period factor + 10.2.8 Negotiate synchronous with all devices + 10.2.9 Verbosity level + 10.2.10 Debug mode + 10.2.11 Burst max + 10.2.12 LED support + 10.2.13 Max wide + 10.2.14 Differential mode + 10.2.15 IRQ mode + 10.2.16 Reverse probe + 10.2.17 Fix up PCI configuration space + 10.2.18 Serial NVRAM + 10.2.19 Check SCSI BUS + 10.2.20 Exclude a host from being attached + 10.2.21 Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts + 10.2.22 Enable use of IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION + 10.3 Advised boot setup commands + 10.4 PCI configuration fix-up boot option + 10.5 Serial NVRAM support boot option + 10.6 SCSI BUS checking boot option + 10.7 IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION boot option + 11. Some constants and flags of the ncr53c8xx.h header file + 12. Installation + 13. Architecture dependent features + 14. Known problems + 14.1 Tagged commands with Iomega Jaz device + 14.2 Device names change when another controller is added + 14.3 Using only 8 bit devices with a WIDE SCSI controller. + 14.4 Possible data corruption during a Memory Write and Invalidate + 14.5 IRQ sharing problems + 15. SCSI problem troubleshooting + 15.1 Problem tracking + 15.2 Understanding hardware error reports + 16. Synchronous transfer negotiation tables + 16.1 Synchronous timings for 53C875 and 53C860 Ultra-SCSI controllers + 16.2 Synchronous timings for fast SCSI-2 53C8XX controllers + 17. Serial NVRAM support (by Richard Waltham) + 17.1 Features + 17.2 Symbios NVRAM layout + 17.3 Tekram NVRAM layout + 18. Support for Big Endian + 18.1 Big Endian CPU + 18.2 NCR chip in Big Endian mode of operations + +1. Introduction +=============== + +The initial Linux ncr53c8xx driver has been a port of the ncr driver from +FreeBSD that has been achieved in November 1995 by: + + - Gerard Roudier + +The original driver has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by: + + - Wolfgang Stanglmeier + - Stefan Esser + +It is now available as a bundle of 2 drivers: + +- ncr53c8xx generic driver that supports all the SYM53C8XX family including + the earliest 810 rev. 1, the latest 896 (2 channel LVD SCSI controller) and + the new 895A (1 channel LVD SCSI controller). +- sym53c8xx enhanced driver (a.k.a. 896 drivers) that drops support of oldest + chips in order to gain advantage of new features, as LOAD/STORE instructions + available since the 810A and hardware phase mismatch available with the + 896 and the 895A. + +You can find technical information about the NCR 8xx family in the +PCI-HOWTO written by Michael Will and in the SCSI-HOWTO written by +Drew Eckhardt. + +Information about new chips is available at LSILOGIC web server: + + - http://www.lsilogic.com/ + +SCSI standard documentations are available at SYMBIOS ftp server: + + - ftp://ftp.symbios.com/ + +Useful SCSI tools written by Eric Youngdale are available at tsx-11: + + - ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsiinfo-X.Y.tar.gz + - ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsidev-X.Y.tar.gz + +These tools are not ALPHA but quite clean and work quite well. +It is essential you have the 'scsiinfo' package. + +This short documentation describes the features of the generic and enhanced +drivers, configuration parameters and control commands available through +the proc SCSI file system read / write operations. + +This driver has been tested OK with linux/i386, Linux/Alpha and Linux/PPC. + +Latest driver version and patches are available at: + + - ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier + +or + + - ftp://ftp.symbios.com/mirror/ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/roudier/drivers + +I am not a native speaker of English and there are probably lots of +mistakes in this README file. Any help will be welcome. + + +2. Supported chips and SCSI features +==================================== + +The following features are supported for all chips: + + - Synchronous negotiation + - Disconnection + - Tagged command queuing + - SCSI parity checking + - Master parity checking + +"Wide negotiation" is supported for chips that allow it. The +following table shows some characteristics of NCR 8xx family chips +and what drivers support them. + ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +| | | | | |Supported by|Supported by| +| |On board | | | |the generic |the enhanced| +|Chip |SDMS BIOS |Wide |SCSI std. | Max. sync |driver |driver | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|810 | N | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | N | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|810A | N | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|815 | Y | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | N | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|825 | Y | Y | FAST10 | 20 MB/s | Y | N | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|825A | Y | Y | FAST10 | 20 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|860 | N | N | FAST20 | 20 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|875 | Y | Y | FAST20 | 40 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|876 | Y | Y | FAST20 | 40 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|895 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|895A | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|896 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|897 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|1510D | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|1010 | Y | Y | FAST80 |160 MB/s | N | Y | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ +|1010_66 | Y | Y | FAST80 |160 MB/s | N | Y | +|[1]_ | | | | | | | ++--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ + +.. [1] Chip supports 33MHz and 66MHz PCI buses. + + +Summary of other supported features: + +:Module: allow to load the driver +:Memory mapped I/O: increases performance +:Profiling information: read operations from the proc SCSI file system +:Control commands: write operations to the proc SCSI file system +:Debugging information: written to syslog (expert only) +:Serial NVRAM: Symbios and Tekram formats + +- Scatter / gather +- Shared interrupt +- Boot setup commands + + +3. Advantages of the enhanced 896 driver +======================================== + +3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS +-------------------------- + +The 810A, 825A, 875, 895, 896 and 895A support new SCSI SCRIPTS instructions +named LOAD and STORE that allow to move up to 1 DWORD from/to an IO register +to/from memory much faster that the MOVE MEMORY instruction that is supported +by the 53c7xx and 53c8xx family. +The LOAD/STORE instructions support absolute and DSA relative addressing +modes. The SCSI SCRIPTS had been entirely rewritten using LOAD/STORE instead +of MOVE MEMORY instructions. + +3.2 New features of the SYM53C896 (64 bit PCI dual LVD SCSI controller) +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The 896 and the 895A allows handling of the phase mismatch context from +SCRIPTS (avoids the phase mismatch interrupt that stops the SCSI processor +until the C code has saved the context of the transfer). +Implementing this without using LOAD/STORE instructions would be painful +and I didn't even want to try it. + +The 896 chip supports 64 bit PCI transactions and addressing, while the +895A supports 32 bit PCI transactions and 64 bit addressing. +The SCRIPTS processor of these chips is not true 64 bit, but uses segment +registers for bit 32-63. Another interesting feature is that LOAD/STORE +instructions that address the on-chip RAM (8k) remain internal to the chip. + +Due to the use of LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions, this driver does not +support the following chips: + +- SYM53C810 revision < 0x10 (16) +- SYM53C815 all revisions +- SYM53C825 revision < 0x10 (16) + +4. Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O +====================================== + +Memory mapped I/O has less latency than normal I/O. Since +linux-1.3.x, memory mapped I/O is used rather than normal I/O. Memory +mapped I/O seems to work fine on most hardware configurations, but +some poorly designed motherboards may break this feature. + +The configuration option CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED forces the +driver to use normal I/O in all cases. + + +5. Tagged command queueing +========================== + +Queuing more than 1 command at a time to a device allows it to perform +optimizations based on actual head positions and its mechanical +characteristics. This feature may also reduce average command latency. +In order to really gain advantage of this feature, devices must have +a reasonable cache size (No miracle is to be expected for a low-end +hard disk with 128 KB or less). +Some known SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing. +Generally, firmware revisions that fix this kind of problems are available +at respective vendor web/ftp sites. +All I can say is that the hard disks I use on my machines behave well with +this driver with tagged command queuing enabled: + +- IBM S12 0662 +- Conner 1080S +- Quantum Atlas I +- Quantum Atlas II + +If your controller has NVRAM, you can configure this feature per target +from the user setup tool. The Tekram Setup program allows to tune the +maximum number of queued commands up to 32. The Symbios Setup only allows +to enable or disable this feature. + +The maximum number of simultaneous tagged commands queued to a device +is currently set to 8 by default. This value is suitable for most SCSI +disks. With large SCSI disks (>= 2GB, cache >= 512KB, average seek time +<= 10 ms), using a larger value may give better performances. + +The sym53c8xx driver supports up to 255 commands per device, and the +generic ncr53c8xx driver supports up to 64, but using more than 32 is +generally not worth-while, unless you are using a very large disk or disk +array. It is noticeable that most of recent hard disks seem not to accept +more than 64 simultaneous commands. So, using more than 64 queued commands +is probably just resource wasting. + +If your controller does not have NVRAM or if it is managed by the SDMS +BIOS/SETUP, you can configure tagged queueing feature and device queue +depths from the boot command-line. For example:: + + ncr53c8xx=tags:4/t2t3q15-t4q7/t1u0q32 + +will set tagged commands queue depths as follow: + +- target 2 all luns on controller 0 --> 15 +- target 3 all luns on controller 0 --> 15 +- target 4 all luns on controller 0 --> 7 +- target 1 lun 0 on controller 1 --> 32 +- all other target/lun --> 4 + +In some special conditions, some SCSI disk firmwares may return a +QUEUE FULL status for a SCSI command. This behaviour is managed by the +driver using the following heuristic: + +- Each time a QUEUE FULL status is returned, tagged queue depth is reduced + to the actual number of disconnected commands. + +- Every 1000 successfully completed SCSI commands, if allowed by the + current limit, the maximum number of queueable commands is incremented. + +Since QUEUE FULL status reception and handling is resource wasting, the +driver notifies by default this problem to user by indicating the actual +number of commands used and their status, as well as its decision on the +device queue depth change. +The heuristic used by the driver in handling QUEUE FULL ensures that the +impact on performances is not too bad. You can get rid of the messages by +setting verbose level to zero, as follow: + +1st method: + boot your system using 'ncr53c8xx=verb:0' option. + +2nd method: + apply "setverbose 0" control command to the proc fs entry + corresponding to your controller after boot-up. + +6. Parity checking +================== + +The driver supports SCSI parity checking and PCI bus master parity +checking. These features must be enabled in order to ensure safe data +transfers. However, some flawed devices or mother boards will have +problems with parity. You can disable either PCI parity or SCSI parity +checking by entering appropriate options from the boot command line. +(See 10: Boot setup commands). + +7. Profiling information +======================== + +Profiling information is available through the proc SCSI file system. +Since gathering profiling information may impact performances, this +feature is disabled by default and requires a compilation configuration +option to be set to Y. + +The device associated with a host has the following pathname:: + + /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/N (N=0,1,2 ....) + +Generally, only 1 board is used on hardware configuration, and that device is:: + + /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 + +However, if the driver has been made as module, the number of the +hosts is incremented each time the driver is loaded. + +In order to display profiling information, just enter:: + + cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 + +and you will get something like the following text:: + + General information: + Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x2 + IO port address 0x6000, IRQ number 10 + Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x282c000 + Synchronous transfer period 25, max commands per lun 4 + Profiling information: + num_trans = 18014 + num_kbytes = 671314 + num_disc = 25763 + num_break = 1673 + num_int = 1685 + num_fly = 18038 + ms_setup = 4940 + ms_data = 369940 + ms_disc = 183090 + ms_post = 1320 + +General information is easy to understand. The device ID and the +revision ID identify the SCSI chip as follows: + +======= ============= =========== +Chip Device id Revision Id +======= ============= =========== +810 0x1 < 0x10 +810A 0x1 >= 0x10 +815 0x4 +825 0x3 < 0x10 +860 0x6 +825A 0x3 >= 0x10 +875 0xf +895 0xc +======= ============= =========== + +The profiling information is updated upon completion of SCSI commands. +A data structure is allocated and zeroed when the host adapter is +attached. So, if the driver is a module, the profile counters are +cleared each time the driver is loaded. The "clearprof" command +allows you to clear these counters at any time. + +The following counters are available: + +("num" prefix means "number of", +"ms" means milli-seconds) + +num_trans + Number of completed commands + Example above: 18014 completed commands + +num_kbytes + Number of kbytes transferred + Example above: 671 MB transferred + +num_disc + Number of SCSI disconnections + Example above: 25763 SCSI disconnections + +num_break + number of script interruptions (phase mismatch) + Example above: 1673 script interruptions + +num_int + Number of interrupts other than "on the fly" + Example above: 1685 interruptions not "on the fly" + +num_fly + Number of interrupts "on the fly" + Example above: 18038 interruptions "on the fly" + +ms_setup + Elapsed time for SCSI commands setups + Example above: 4.94 seconds + +ms_data + Elapsed time for data transfers + Example above: 369.94 seconds spent for data transfer + +ms_disc + Elapsed time for SCSI disconnections + Example above: 183.09 seconds spent disconnected + +ms_post + Elapsed time for command post processing + (time from SCSI status get to command completion call) + Example above: 1.32 seconds spent for post processing + +Due to the 1/100 second tick of the system clock, "ms_post" time may +be wrong. + +In the example above, we got 18038 interrupts "on the fly" and only +1673 script breaks generally due to disconnections inside a segment +of the scatter list. + + +8. Control commands +=================== + +Control commands can be sent to the driver with write operations to +the proc SCSI file system. The generic command syntax is the +following:: + + echo " " >/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 + (assumes controller number is 0) + +Using "all" for "" parameter with the commands below will +apply to all targets of the SCSI chain (except the controller). + +Available commands: + +8.1 Set minimum synchronous period factor +----------------------------------------- + + setsync + + :target: target number + :period: minimum synchronous period. + Maximum speed = 1000/(4*period factor) except for special + cases below. + + Specify a period of 255, to force asynchronous transfer mode. + + - 10 means 25 nano-seconds synchronous period + - 11 means 30 nano-seconds synchronous period + - 12 means 50 nano-seconds synchronous period + +8.2 Set wide size +----------------- + + setwide + + :target: target number + :size: 0=8 bits, 1=16bits + +8.3 Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands +---------------------------------------------------- + + settags + + :target: target number + :tags: number of concurrent tagged commands + must not be greater than SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS (default: 8) + +8.4 Set order type for tagged command +------------------------------------- + + setorder + + :order: 3 possible values: + + simple: + use SIMPLE TAG for all operations (read and write) + + ordered: + use ORDERED TAG for all operations + + default: + use default tag type, + SIMPLE TAG for read operations + ORDERED TAG for write operations + + +8.5 Set debug mode +------------------ + + setdebug + + Available debug flags: + + ======== ======================================================== + alloc print info about memory allocations (ccb, lcb) + queue print info about insertions into the command start queue + result print sense data on CHECK CONDITION status + scatter print info about the scatter process + scripts print info about the script binding process + tiny print minimal debugging information + timing print timing information of the NCR chip + nego print information about SCSI negotiations + phase print information on script interruptions + ======== ======================================================== + + Use "setdebug" with no argument to reset debug flags. + + +8.6 Clear profile counters +-------------------------- + + clearprof + + The profile counters are automatically cleared when the amount of + data transferred reaches 1000 GB in order to avoid overflow. + The "clearprof" command allows you to clear these counters at any time. + + +8.7 Set flag (no_disc) +---------------------- + + setflag + + target: target number + + For the moment, only one flag is available: + + no_disc: not allow target to disconnect. + + Do not specify any flag in order to reset the flag. For example: + + setflag 4 + will reset no_disc flag for target 4, so will allow it disconnections. + + setflag all + will allow disconnection for all devices on the SCSI bus. + + +8.8 Set verbose level +--------------------- + + setverbose #level + + The driver default verbose level is 1. This command allows to change + th driver verbose level after boot-up. + +8.9 Reset all logical units of a target +--------------------------------------- + + resetdev + + :target: target number + + The driver will try to send a BUS DEVICE RESET message to the target. + (Only supported by the SYM53C8XX driver and provided for test purpose) + +8.10 Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target +----------------------------------------------------- + + cleardev + + :target: target number + + The driver will try to send a ABORT message to all the logical units + of the target. + + (Only supported by the SYM53C8XX driver and provided for test purpose) + + +9. Configuration parameters +=========================== + +If the firmware of all your devices is perfect enough, all the +features supported by the driver can be enabled at start-up. However, +if only one has a flaw for some SCSI feature, you can disable the +support by the driver of this feature at linux start-up and enable +this feature after boot-up only for devices that support it safely. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED (default answer: n) + Answer "y" if you suspect your mother board to not allow memory mapped I/O. + + May slow down performance a little. This option is required by + Linux/PPC and is used no matter what you select here. Linux/PPC + suffers no performance loss with this option since all IO is memory + mapped anyway. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS (default answer: 8) + Default tagged command queue depth. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS (default answer: 8) + This option allows you to specify the maximum number of tagged commands + that can be queued to a device. The maximum supported value is 32. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC (default answer: 5) + This option allows you to specify the frequency in MHz the driver + will use at boot time for synchronous data transfer negotiations. + This frequency can be changed later with the "setsync" control command. + 0 means "asynchronous data transfers". + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_FORCE_SYNC_NEGO (default answer: n) + Force synchronous negotiation for all SCSI-2 devices. + + Some SCSI-2 devices do not report this feature in byte 7 of inquiry + response but do support it properly (TAMARACK scanners for example). + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_NO_DISCONNECT (default and only reasonable answer: n) + If you suspect a device of yours does not properly support disconnections, + you can answer "y". Then, all SCSI devices will never disconnect the bus + even while performing long SCSI operations. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT + Genuine SYMBIOS boards use GPIO0 in output for controller LED and GPIO3 + bit as a flag indicating singled-ended/differential interface. + If all the boards of your system are genuine SYMBIOS boards or use + BIOS and drivers from SYMBIOS, you would want to enable this option. + + This option must NOT be enabled if your system has at least one 53C8XX + based scsi board with a vendor-specific BIOS. + For example, Tekram DC-390/U, DC-390/W and DC-390/F scsi controllers + use a vendor-specific BIOS and are known to not use SYMBIOS compatible + GPIO wiring. So, this option must not be enabled if your system has + such a board installed. + +CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_NVRAM_DETECT + Enable support for reading the serial NVRAM data on Symbios and + some Symbios compatible cards, and Tekram DC390W/U/F cards. Useful for + systems with more than one Symbios compatible controller where at least + one has a serial NVRAM, or for a system with a mixture of Symbios and + Tekram cards. Enables setting the boot order of host adaptors + to something other than the default order or "reverse probe" order. + Also enables Symbios and Tekram cards to be distinguished so + CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT may be set in a system with a + mixture of Symbios and Tekram cards so the Symbios cards can make use of + the full range of Symbios features, differential, led pin, without + causing problems for the Tekram card(s). + +10. Boot setup commands +======================= + +10.1 Syntax +----------- + +Setup commands can be passed to the driver either at boot time or as a +string variable using 'insmod'. + +A boot setup command for the ncr53c8xx (sym53c8xx) driver begins with the +driver name "ncr53c8xx="(sym53c8xx). The kernel syntax parser then expects +an optional list of integers separated with comma followed by an optional +list of comma-separated strings. Example of boot setup command under lilo +prompt:: + + lilo: linux root=/dev/hda2 ncr53c8xx=tags:4,sync:10,debug:0x200 + +- enable tagged commands, up to 4 tagged commands queued. +- set synchronous negotiation speed to 10 Mega-transfers / second. +- set DEBUG_NEGO flag. + +Since comma seems not to be allowed when defining a string variable using +'insmod', the driver also accepts as option separator. +The following command will install driver module with the same options as +above:: + + insmod ncr53c8xx.o ncr53c8xx="tags:4 sync:10 debug:0x200" + +For the moment, the integer list of arguments is discarded by the driver. +It will be used in the future in order to allow a per controller setup. + +Each string argument must be specified as "keyword:value". Only lower-case +characters and digits are allowed. + +In a system that contains multiple 53C8xx adapters insmod will install the +specified driver on each adapter. To exclude a chip use the 'excl' keyword. + +The sequence of commands:: + + insmod sym53c8xx sym53c8xx=excl:0x1400 + insmod ncr53c8xx + +installs the sym53c8xx driver on all adapters except the one at IO port +address 0x1400 and then installs the ncr53c8xx driver to the adapter at IO +port address 0x1400. + + +10.2 Available arguments +------------------------ + +10.2.1 Master parity checking +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== ======== + mpar:y enabled + mpar:n disabled + ====== ======== + +10.2.2 Scsi parity checking +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== ======== + spar:y enabled + spar:n disabled + ====== ======== + +10.2.3 Scsi disconnections +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== ======== + disc:y enabled + disc:n disabled + ====== ======== + +10.2.4 Special features +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + Only apply to 810A, 825A, 860, 875 and 895 controllers. + Have no effect with other ones. + + ======= ================================================= + specf:y (or 1) enabled + specf:n (or 0) disabled + specf:3 enabled except Memory Write And Invalidate + ======= ================================================= + + The default driver setup is 'specf:3'. As a consequence, option 'specf:y' + must be specified in the boot setup command to enable Memory Write And + Invalidate. + +10.2.5 Ultra SCSI support +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + Only apply to 860, 875, 895, 895a, 896, 1010 and 1010_66 controllers. + Have no effect with other ones. + + ======= ======================== + ultra:n All ultra speeds enabled + ultra:2 Ultra2 enabled + ultra:1 Ultra enabled + ultra:0 Ultra speeds disabled + ======= ======================== + +10.2.6 Default number of tagged commands +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ======================= =============================== + tags:0 (or tags:1 ) tagged command queuing disabled + tags:#tags (#tags > 1) tagged command queuing enabled + ======================= =============================== + + #tags will be truncated to the max queued commands configuration parameter. + This option also allows to specify a command queue depth for each device + that support tagged command queueing. + + Example:: + + ncr53c8xx=tags:10/t2t3q16-t5q24/t1u2q32 + + will set devices queue depth as follow: + + - controller #0 target #2 and target #3 -> 16 commands, + - controller #0 target #5 -> 24 commands, + - controller #1 target #1 logical unit #2 -> 32 commands, + - all other logical units (all targets, all controllers) -> 10 commands. + +10.2.7 Default synchronous period factor +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +============ ======================================================== +sync:255 disabled (asynchronous transfer mode) +sync:#factor + ============ ======================================= + #factor = 10 Ultra-2 SCSI 40 Mega-transfers / second + #factor = 11 Ultra-2 SCSI 33 Mega-transfers / second + #factor < 25 Ultra SCSI 20 Mega-transfers / second + #factor < 50 Fast SCSI-2 + ============ ======================================= +============ ======================================================== + + In all cases, the driver will use the minimum transfer period supported by + controllers according to NCR53C8XX chip type. + +10.2.8 Negotiate synchronous with all devices +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + (force sync nego) + + ===== ========= + fsn:y enabled + fsn:n disabled + ===== ========= + +10.2.9 Verbosity level +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== ========= + verb:0 minimal + verb:1 normal + verb:2 too much + ====== ========= + +10.2.10 Debug mode +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +======== ================================================================== +debug:0 clear debug flags +debug:#x set debug flags + + #x is an integer value combining the following power-of-2 values: + + ============= ====== + DEBUG_ALLOC 0x1 + DEBUG_PHASE 0x2 + DEBUG_POLL 0x4 + DEBUG_QUEUE 0x8 + DEBUG_RESULT 0x10 + DEBUG_SCATTER 0x20 + DEBUG_SCRIPT 0x40 + DEBUG_TINY 0x80 + DEBUG_TIMING 0x100 + DEBUG_NEGO 0x200 + DEBUG_TAGS 0x400 + DEBUG_FREEZE 0x800 + DEBUG_RESTART 0x1000 + ============= ====== +======== ================================================================== + + You can play safely with DEBUG_NEGO. However, some of these flags may + generate bunches of syslog messages. + +10.2.11 Burst max +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +========= ================================================================== +burst:0 burst disabled +burst:255 get burst length from initial IO register settings. +burst:#x burst enabled (1<<#x burst transfers max) + + #x is an integer value which is log base 2 of the burst transfers + max. + + The NCR53C875 and NCR53C825A support up to 128 burst transfers + (#x = 7). + + Other chips only support up to 16 (#x = 4). + + This is a maximum value. The driver set the burst length according + to chip and revision ids. By default the driver uses the maximum + value supported by the chip. +========= ================================================================== + +10.2.12 LED support +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ===== =================== + led:1 enable LED support + led:0 disable LED support + ===== =================== + + Donnot enable LED support if your scsi board does not use SDMS BIOS. + (See 'Configuration parameters') + +10.2.13 Max wide +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== =================== + wide:1 wide scsi enabled + wide:0 wide scsi disabled + ====== =================== + + Some scsi boards use a 875 (ultra wide) and only supply narrow connectors. + If you have connected a wide device with a 50 pins to 68 pins cable + converter, any accepted wide negotiation will break further data transfers. + In such a case, using "wide:0" in the bootup command will be helpful. + +10.2.14 Differential mode +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ====== ================================= + diff:0 never set up diff mode + diff:1 set up diff mode if BIOS set it + diff:2 always set up diff mode + diff:3 set diff mode if GPIO3 is not set + ====== ================================= + +10.2.15 IRQ mode +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ========= ======================================================== + irqm:0 always open drain + irqm:1 same as initial settings (assumed BIOS settings) + irqm:2 always totem pole + irqm:0x10 driver will not use IRQF_SHARED flag when requesting irq + ========= ======================================================== + + (Bits 0x10 and 0x20 can be combined with hardware irq mode option) + +10.2.16 Reverse probe +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + + ========= ======================================================== + revprob:n probe chip ids from the PCI configuration in this order: + 810, 815, 820, 860, 875, 885, 895, 896 + revprob:y probe chip ids in the reverse order. + ========= ======================================================== + +10.2.17 Fix up PCI configuration space +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + pcifix: