Problem reported: http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=124585978305866&w=2
scsi_dh does not do a refernce count for attach/detach, and this affects
the way it is supposed to work with multipath when a device is not
in the dev_list of the hardware handler.
This patch adds a reference count that counts each attach.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Create a cache of devices that are seen in a system. This will avoid
the unnecessary traversal of the device list in the scsi_dh when there
are multiple luns of a same type.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
multipath keeps a separate device table which may be
more current than the built-in one.
So we should make sure to always call ->attach whenever
a multipath map with hardware handler is instantiated.
And we should call ->detach on removal, too.
[sekharan: update as per comments from agk]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Implement a 'dh_state' sdev attribute for dynamic device handler
manipulation. A read on the attribute will return the name of
the currently attached device handler or 'detached' if no handler
is attached.
The attribute allows the following strings to be written:
- The name of the device handler to be attached if the state is
'detached'.
- 'activate' to trigger path activation if a device handler
is attached.
- 'detach' to detach the currently attached device handler.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Instead of having each and every driver implement its own
device table scanning code we should rather implement a common
routine and scan the device tables there.
This allows us also to implement a general notifier chain
callback for all device handler instead for one per handler.
[sekharan: Fix rejections caused by conflicting bug fix]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Some of the storage devices (that can be accessed through multiple paths),
do need some special handling for
1. Activating the passive path of the storage access.
2. Decode and handle the special sense codes returned by the devices.
3. Handle the I/Os being sent to the passive path, especially
during the device probe time.
when accessed through multiple paths.
As of today this special device handling is done at the dm-multipath
layer using dm-handlers. That works well for (1); for (2) to be handled
at dm layer, scsi sense information need to be exported from SCSI to dm-layer,
which is not very attractive; (3) cannot be done at all at the dm layer.
Device handler has been moved to SCSI mainly to handle (2) and (3) properly.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
