Bug 112426 - Dynamic adapter addition via "scsi add-single-device"
Summary: Dynamic adapter addition via "scsi add-single-device"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: s390
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 114941 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-19 16:03 UTC by Ingolf Salm
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-09-02 04:31:00 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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OOPS dump (2.00 KB, text/plain)
2004-09-14 12:13 UTC, Peter Levart
no flags Details
OOPS dump processed with ksymoops (3.38 KB, text/plain)
2004-09-14 12:14 UTC, Peter Levart
no flags Details
sysreport output for the system in question (251.60 KB, application/octet-stream)
2004-09-14 12:16 UTC, Peter Levart
no flags Details


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2004:433 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 2004-09-02 04:00:00 UTC

Description Ingolf Salm 2003-12-19 16:03:20 UTC
Description of problem:
Status:		16.10.2003	patch still to be re-send to linux-
scsi mailing list,
				requires review with regard to latest 
2.4 release candidate
		23.10.2003	adapted patch to latest kernel 
(2.4.23-pre7),
				patch re-send to Marcello Tosatti 
(Linux 2.4 maintainer)
				and linux-scsi mailing list
		25.10.2003	original patch was defective,
				fixed problems, opened LTC 5135,
				re-send fixed version of patch to 
Marcello Tosatti and
				linux-scsi mailing list
		11.11.2003	no response on resubmitted patch
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List:     linux-scsi
Subject:  [PATCH] 2.4.23-pre8: fixing deferred SCSI adapter 
registration (resubmitted)
From:     "Martin Peschke3" <MPESCHKE () de ! ibm ! com>
Date:     2003-10-25 13:27:13
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Hi,

I am resubmitting this fix as 2 issues of the original patch haved 
surfaced
(scsi_host_template needs to be added anyway regardless of the
fact that no scsi_host might have been added in the first instance;
accounting of detected scsi_hosts needs to be done in scsi_register
() /
scsi_unregister() in order to avoid miscalculation).
The patch has also missed the 2.4.23-pre7 cutoff, fortunately.
Please consider applying for 2.4.23-pre8.

Cheers,
Martin Peschke


>>>> please find patch in mailing list




---------------------- Forwarded by Martin Peschke3/Germany/IBM on
25/10/2003 15:20 ---------------------------

Martin Peschke3
23/10/2003 19:08

To:    marcelo.tosatti
cc:    linux-scsi.org
From:  Martin Peschke3/Germany/IBM@IBMDE
Subject:    [PATCH] 2.4.23-pre: fixing deferred SCSI adapter 
registration


Hi,

The following patch coutesy of Stefan Bader fixes the 2.4 SCSI adapter
registration, which fatally goes wrong when done at a later time
than an HBA driver's registration. This has hampered the addition of
SCSI adapters which become available at any later point in time.

As the then-maintainer of the SCSI mid-layer confirmed, the deferred
registration of SCSI adapters should be possible,
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=96283633428905&w=2)
though it later turned out to be flawed by some misplaced chunks of 
code,
which need to be considered as a bug.

The problem with the current 2.4 code is that a couple of setup things
are only done when an HBA driver is registered while these steps ought
to be exercised each time an adapter is registered, independent of
time and circumstance of the emergence of a new adapter. This includes
the creation of an error recovery thread and a procfs-entry per 
adapter.

As far as I know, dynamic adapter addition has been mainly a domain of
the zSeries HBA driver (zfcp), but it is also a valid requirement for 
any
other technology capable of detecting and adding adapters on-the-fly,
like Hotplug PCI.

The original patch was posted some time ago last year and received
positive feedback.
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=101559609329580&w=2)
It got probably lost because SCSI maintainance in 2.4 is rather 
unsettled.

It was also used as base for similar functionality in 2.5
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=103117214824710&w=2)

The patch has been proved reliable in SuSE kernels since last year.
I am convinced it should go into the mainline kernel.

I have adopted the patch to 2.4.23-pre7, regression test included.
Please apply.

best regards,
Martin Peschke


---- original patch removed ----

-

Comment 4 Martin Peschke 2004-01-21 16:02:50 UTC
I have been asked too add more information about the problem and 
patch:

The latest posting of the patch to linux-scsi can be found here
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=106708846520490&w=2

Scenario:
another SCSI adapter becomes available while other SCSI adapters have 
already been in use for some time, i.e. SCSI detection was finished 
earlier (unlikely for systems with PCI cards, but an absolutetly 
valid case for zSeries!),
user wants to use that new adapter and adds entries to his zfcp map 
and triggers detection of devices attached via the additional SCSI 
adapter,

Result without patch:
First, SCSI stack mid-layer allows to add the new attachment ... and 
crashes later.

Result with patch:
no crash, scsi_mod works smoothly with adapters added on-the-fly

Problem:
setup of adapters was partly done outside the routine which sets up a 
SCSI adapter, hence the mid-layer failed to setup error handling 
threads and proc-files for "hotplugged" adapters

Fix:
move setup of per-adapter proc-entries, error handling threads to 
proper routine and also adapt accounting of present scsi adapters

Comment 5 Bob Johnson 2004-01-22 21:56:20 UTC
To IBM.

I believe this is a request for hot plug adapter support.
We do not have this in our 2.4.21 kernel.

This should be moved to RHEL 4 ?

Comment 6 Ingolf Salm 2004-01-23 16:51:03 UTC
I asked the SCSI developer to answer.

Comment 7 Martin Peschke 2004-01-23 18:10:28 UTC
No.
Sorry, I didn't explain the scenario clear enough.

The distinct feature of real "hotplug", as it is usually understood 
by Linux developers, is that all consequences of devices coming or 
going are handled _automagically_, namely by the interplay of kernel 
hotplug events, hotplug scripts and so on. This is not what I try to 
shoulder here.

The referred patch would just allow a Linux administrator to 
_manually_ enlarge (not shrink!!) their SCSI configuration. In 
principle, the Linux SCSI stack provides means to do that, e.g.

echo 0x1234 1:0xabc 5:0x5789 > /proc/scsi/zfcp/add_map
echo scsi add-single-device 2 0 1 5 > /proc/scsi/scsi
(which detects LUN 5 at target ID 1 at bus 0 at adapter 2)

Unfortunately, this method does only work in some cases (not by 
design, but by mistake, I suppose), i.e. if a SCSI device is to be 
added to an _already known_ SCSI adapter.
Given the above example, adapter #2 would be fine, while accessing 
adapter #3 (a new adapter) would cause inconsistencies in the SCSI 
mid layer, which make the SCSI subsystem crash sooner or later. The 
cause is a flaw in the SCSI adapter setup routines, as explained in 
my previous comment.
The fix is straight forward, and it should also be a candidate for 
Doug's bk tree which he has setup to mend the stuck vanilla 2.4 SCSI 
maintenance, in my eyes.

Let me give you an analogue example.

Our DASD driver provides an r/w proc-interface (/proc/dasd/devices), 
by which the Linux system administrator can instruct the DASD driver
to look for another DASD addressed by a specified device number:

echo add device 8275 > /proc/dasd/devices

This makes the DASD driver detect the device 8275, for instance. 
There is nothing automagical about it. It simply allows to enlarge 
the existing device configuration _manually_ ...and without the need 
for reboot (important!!). Usually this has to be done after that 
device was added to a Linux guests configuration, i.e. if the z/VM 
administrator acknowledges the need for growing disk space of Linux 
guests by dedicating more disks. For availability reasons Linux 
systems must not be rebooted each time. That is why, there is a real 
business need to be able to do that "on the fly".

The disputed SCSI patch does a very, very similar thing. Nothing 
more.

The term 'hotplug' would untruly suggest much more functionality, 
wherefore I have been striving to avoid that word in connection with 
the referred patch.

Comment 11 Martin Peschke 2004-02-09 22:03:11 UTC
*** Bug 114941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Doug Ledford 2004-05-20 14:34:55 UTC
Martin, I've integrated this patch.  In the process, I noticed that
the coding style didn't follow the established style in the existing
files.  Do me a favor, and when modifying an existing file with an
existing coding style, please try to use that style in your modifications.

There was an additional issue regarding the patch.  I'm surprised that
it ever worked for more traditional SCSI HBAs since you didn't bother
to create the proc_dir for the HBA module until *after* the call to
hostt->detect, which for normal scsi drivers is when they call
scsi_register and therefore build_proc_dir_entry but there won't be a
proc dir to put the entry into yet!  Anyway, some reordering later, a
lot of hand patching later, and I've got it in the tree.  I'm doing a
compile/boot test now, and when that's done I'll push this to the bk
tree along with the other changes.

Comment 16 Doug Ledford 2004-05-20 17:47:58 UTC
OK, I've got the patch working on x86 with both aic79xx and qla2200
drivers, so I think it's ready to be tested.  The changes have been
pushed to the public BK tree already.

Comment 17 Martin Peschke 2004-05-21 13:44:44 UTC
Good points. We certainly overlooked that procfs thing. I tested it
only on zSeries (which does forgoes /proc/scsi entries as created by
the mid layer). Can't say for sure whether the guy who created the
first version of this patch tried some other lldd.
Why don't we create the lldd proc entry unconditionally prior to
calling detect? Wouldn't it be easier to be able to create a per-hba
procfs entries in detect() in any case?

Comment 18 Doug Ledford 2004-05-21 13:58:02 UTC
Unfortunately, that doesn't work.  A number of scsi host drivers don't
set the tpnt->name entry until their detect routine is called, so
attempts to create the proc dir prior to detect fails.  In the end, I
added a new global variable, scsi_in_detection, and whenever we call
the hostt->detect() routine of a driver, we first set this to 1, that
way calls to scsi_register() with this variable set will skip certain
setup activities, then clear it after detect is complete and in the
loops just below the call to hostt->detect() in scsi_register_host()
we complete those setup activities, including printing out the info()
of the host adapter (that oopses if we haven't completed the detect on
some drivers) and creating the /proc directories for the specific host
adapters.  If you download the bk tree you can see what I'm talking
about.  The next thing I was thinking of doing was to take all the
detection and host scanning code out of scsi_register_host() and put
it into scsi_setup_host(), loop through the adapters found in
scsi_register_host() and call scsi_setup_host() for each one that
needs it.  Then EXPORT_SYMBOL() scsi_setup_host() and that way when
your driver gets an out of band host adapter addition, it could call
scsi_register() to create the host, then call scsi_setup_host(shpnt)
in order to trigger a typical scan like you would get at module insert
time.  That should be fairly easy to implement and would be a nice
addition since by doing that, you would then be able to modify the
proc code in the dasd driver to allow a user to specify just the
adapter to add, not the device, and have the adapter and all its
devices show up then.  Not quite the same as the 2.6 hotplug stuff,
but reasonable for 2.4.  If you're interested in something like that,
I'm pretty sure I could have it ready for you to test in a couple
hours.  Let me know.

Comment 19 Martin Peschke 2004-05-21 14:48:47 UTC
I copied the bk tree onto my disk and this is why I was wondering
about the use of scsi_in_detection. Okay, it's probably better to work
around lldd issues with tpnt->name.
I agree that all this per-lldd work should be pulled out of
scsi_register_host. This is basically similar to the cleanup that has
been done in 2.6. We tried to keep our original patch as small as
possible.
As to the scsi_setup_host() idea, I don't think a call from a lldd
should be necessary. Scanning should be part of scsi_register(). It
would look odd to to call scsi_register() followed by
scsi_setup_host() for dynamically added adapters, while
scsi_register() is sufficient for adapters accessible at module load time.
I guess there is a minor misunderstanding as to the dasd driver you
have mentioned. Yes, zfcp requires every LUN to be configured
separately, which won't change for other reasons. This can be done by
cat-ing some configuration comprising a set of LUNs (attached to
various - if so - new adapters) into some zfcp specific proc entry.
All the new adapters configured this way will be scsi_register()-ed
upon close() of that proc entry. Therewith, all new adapters would be
scanned, if scsi_register() provided this service. All LUNs attached
to new adapters would be scanned. So far so good. Only new LUNs
attached to adapters added earlier, e.g. upon module load, wouldn't be
found, since old adapters would not be rescanned. The
add-single-device venture would be needed for those LUNs, and only for
those. Which doesn't look consistent either. Then a call to something
like scsi_setup_host() for all dynamically added LUNs attached to old
adapters would be needed to have all LUNs scanned without further user
intervention.
To make a long story short, scsi_setup_host() seems to be the best way
to trigger scans of dynamically added adapters, if it was also capable
of rescanning old adapters for new LUNs without causing pain for
already accessed LUNs. What do you think, Doug?

Comment 20 Doug Ledford 2004-05-21 15:25:43 UTC
scsi_setup_host() can be called from scsi_register() if
scsi_in_detection is 0.  I will make it so.  That way a call to
scsi_register() after module load does "The Right Thing" without any
additional calls needed.

As to rescanning of existing adapters, we have a patch in the tree to
do exactly that.  The proc code in the zfcp driver could be simplified
to something like:

for(ptr=new_host_list; ptr; ptr=ptr->next) {
 zfcp_setup_new_host(ptr); /* assuming this calls scsi_register */
                           /* scsi_register would scan host */
}
scsi_scan_new_devices();   /* scan for new devices on hosts */
return;


Comment 21 Doug Ledford 2004-05-22 17:14:41 UTC
OK, I pushed a set of changes to the bk tree today.  These changes
implement what we were talking about.  At module load time,
scsi_register_host() is called (poor name, it should be
scsi_register_driver or something like that, but too late now).  When
we are in this function, all calls to scsi_register() will not
complete the final host setup, the same as it has always been. 
Instead, after all the host adapters are registered, then we loop
through them to set them up, then we loop through them again to scan
them.  Now, scanning can *not* be done during scsi_register regardless
of whether or not we are in the detect routine.  Drivers don't have
the host adapter ready for scanning at the point we call
scsi_register.  So, when we are not in the detect routine,
scsi_register will call scsi_setup_host, but not call scsi_scan_host.
 It is up to the low level driver to call scsi_scan_host(host_ptr);
after it has completed all setup and is ready for scanning.  This
implements a fairly complete dynamic host adapter addition patch that
the zfcp driver can now be modified to take advantage of.  In
addition, since the scsi_scan_new_devices() export was already there,
you have the ability to dynamically add new hosts and to rescan
existing hosts any time you want from within the driver now.

Comment 22 Doug Ledford 2004-05-24 12:52:33 UTC
I pushed two more changesets to the tree this weekend that also
implement the ability to remove host adapters.  You can now do

echo "scsi remove-hba <number>" > /proc/scsi/scsi

and the subsystem will attempt to find a host with host_no matching
<number> and remove it.  You can also call the function that does this
directly from your driver, eg. scsi_remove_hba(struct Scsi_Host *host);

The locking for this can't be done on a module basis, it has to be
done on a per device basis, so if you have 4 disks on a host, and 3 of
them aren't in use, the function will free up the 3 free disks, fail
on the 1 busy disk, refuse to remove the host itself, and return.  The
return code is the number of failed device removals.  So, return code
0 means that the host struct has been nuked and you shouldn't try to
reference it again (in fact, the driver's revoke() and release()
routines, if set in the host template, will get called during the
remove hba process).  Return code > 0 is the count of devices still
active on the host.  Anyway, it's there, but it's also a big change
for a RHEL update, so even though I sent the patch to our internal
list for review, unless someone says "OK" to such a big change, it may
not go into the next update.

Comment 23 Martin Peschke 2004-05-24 19:25:19 UTC
Just to confirm my understanding of your changes:
What I could do now, after some new LUNs and potentially adapters have
emerged, i.e. have been configured via zfcp's proc interface, is either

for_all_adapters(curr, first_adapter) {
    if (curr->scsi_host == NULL) {
        curr->scsi_host = scsi_register(my_scsi_template);
        /* ... setup various members of curr->scsi_host ... */
    }
    if (curr->new_luns_added) { 
        scsi_scan_host(curr->scsi_host);
        curr->new_luns_added = 0;
    }
}

or

for_all_adapters(curr, first_adapter) {
    if (curr->scsi_host == NULL) {
        curr->scsi_host = scsi_register(my_scsi_template);
        /* ... setup various members of curr->scsi_host ... */
    }
    scsi_scan_host(curr->scsi_host);
}

or

for_all_adapters(curr, first_adapter) {
    if (curr->scsi_host == NULL) {
        curr->scsi_host = scsi_register(my_scsi_template);
        /* ... setup various members of curr->scsi_host ... */
    }
}
scsi_scan_new_devices();

So, no need for me to call scsi_setup_host() at any time, right?
Neither scsi_scan_host() nor scsi_scan_new_devices() cause harm for
already known devices, do they?

As for the hba removal, this won't occur with zfcp on 2.4. The zfcp
driver in 2.4, unlike its 2.6 incarnation, is not prepared for
removing stuff safely on the fly. Unless you see other potential
exploiters of this feature, dynamic hba removal should not consume too
much of your time, I think. Anyway, the way it works as described
above sounds reasonable. I have not yet looked at the actual code. But
the crucial bit must be the identification of devices still in use,
i.e. with ongoing I/O.

Comment 25 Ernie Petrides 2004-06-03 00:32:00 UTC
I'm reverting the status back to "assigned" until I commit Doug's
changes to the RHEL3 U3 patch pool (at which time I'll change it
to "modified" with the associated kernel version).


Comment 26 Ernie Petrides 2004-06-08 04:45:35 UTC
Doug's implementation of dynamic adapter addition has just been
committed to the RHEL3 U3 patch pool (kernel version 2.4.21-15.7.EL).


Comment 27 John Flanagan 2004-09-02 04:31:01 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-433.html


Comment 28 Peter Levart 2004-09-14 12:10:02 UTC
I think that these changes cause a regression. I get panic when 
sending "scsi add-single-device" to /proc/scsi/scsi in 
2.4.21-20.ELsmp kernel when new disk is on an Adaptec aic79xx 
controler. This does not happen for example when adding new disk on a 
Qlugic qla2300 controler. This did not happen with 2.4.21-15.ELsmp 
kernel either. I'm attaching hy oops and ksymoops dumps together with 
sysreport.  

Comment 29 Peter Levart 2004-09-14 12:13:40 UTC
Created attachment 103820 [details]
OOPS dump

Comment 30 Peter Levart 2004-09-14 12:14:31 UTC
Created attachment 103821 [details]
OOPS dump processed with ksymoops

Comment 31 Peter Levart 2004-09-14 12:16:04 UTC
Created attachment 103822 [details]
sysreport output for the system in question

Comment 32 Pete Zaitcev 2004-09-14 15:04:00 UTC
Peter, thanks for the report, but it has to be a new bug.


Comment 33 Ernie Petrides 2004-09-14 20:47:25 UTC
Thanks for opening a new bug report, Peter.

The new bug is #132547.



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