On 03/30/2013 05:53 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 03/29/2013 05:32 PM, Tomas Henzl wrote: >> On 03/27/2013 08:37 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> On 03/26/2013 07:00 PM, Chad Dupuis wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>>> >>>>> This patchset updates the SCSI midlayer to use 64-bit LUNs >>>>> internally. >>>>> It eliminates the need to limit the number of LUNs artificially to >>>>> avoid aliasing issues; the SCSI midlayer can now accept any LUN >>>>> presented >>>>> to it. >>>>> >>>>> The LLDD specific settings for 'max_lun' have been left untouched; >>>>> it should be raised to '~0' if the HBA supports 64-bit LUNs >>>>> internally. >>>>> However, it is up to the driver maintainer to raise that limit. >>>>> >>>>> Hannes Reinecke (4): >>>>> scsi_scan: Fixup scsilun_to_int() >>>>> scsi: use 64-bit LUNs >>>>> scsi: use 64-bit value for 'max_luns' >>>>> scsi: Remove CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN >>>>> >>>> Hannes, >>>> >>>> As we've reviewed these patches internally, the one question that keeps >>>> coming up is how do we handle hardware that cannot handle a 64-bit LUN >>>> address? For example, some of our older 2G/bps hardware can only >>>> handle a 16-bit LUN address. Currently we convert the u32 value to u16. >>> > Do we do the same for the 64-bit conversion? Can a way be >>> devised to >>>> "opt-out" of receiving a 64-bit address in the first place (IIRC this >>> > was an option in the v1 patch set)? >>> Yes, you can. >>> >>> The idea here is to let 'max_luns' control this behaviour; >>> 'max_luns' is the highest LUN number the host can support. >>> So for 16-bit LUN you would set max_luns to '0xFFFF', and for 32-bit >>> LUN addresses you would be setting max_luns to '0xFFFFFFFF'. >> Hi all, >> >> in scsi_report_lun_scan is max_lun compared with the result of >> scsilun_to_int, >> but in that value is also stored the address method. This means, that we >> compare >> the max_lun to a LUN 'handle' which doesn't seem to make much sense. >> This makes that test dependent on which address method is used and not >> only to the LUN number which is I think expected. >> The solution is to have a new function 'scsilun_to_num', (I can send a patch) >> or let the individual drivers set the max_lun to -1 and test for the allowed >> LUNs >> in the driver. >> > You sure this is necessary?
This is not directly related to your 64bit patch, I just 'used' this thread to discuss another issue - sorry. > > I would like to avoid having to parse the LUN number for validity as we > cannot guarantee this check has any meaning for the target. > The only authoritative check can be made by the target. What we can do is to decode the LUN and compare it to max_lun provided by the driver, I think that sg_luns is able to do that, so what is needed is just to follow the SAM. I have seen reports of problem on three different drivers connected to various external storage, all of them having the same basic reason - the driver sets a max_lun and then LUN comes encoded with a newer addressing method and something like this is shown 'kernel: scsi: host 2 channel 0 id 2 lun16643 has a LUN larger than allowed by the host adapter' Decoding the real LUN value would fix this problem, by decoding is only meant the use in scsi_report_lun_scan. The LUN would be stored exactly the same way as it is now. I know we can patch the certain drivers too, but when max_lun were what the name says - max LU number, it would fix my problem very easy. > > In the 64-bit context the max_luns should rather be interpreted as a > 'max bits' setting, ie the number of _bits_ per LUN number the HBA is > able to transport. > But renaming 'max_luns' to 'max_bits' is a bit pointless, as it would > break backwards compability for no real gain. > > So with my patchset we have a two-step LUN validation: > - max_luns controls the max LUN number > (read: max number of bits per LUN) which can be transported > to the target This means in fact only 32 or 64 bit - so a single bit flag is enough? > - The target validates the transported LUN number. > > Hence I don't think we would need an additional function here. > But yes, we need to update scsi_debug as this should validate the > incoming LUN number. > As should the target mode drivers. > > But this can be left for later once the 64-bit changes are in. > > Cheers, > > Hannes > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
