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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c, branch v3.6.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T07:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Rajashekhara</name>
<email>Mahesh_Rajashekhara@pmc-sierra.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-14T12:48:51+00:00</published>
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- Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support added
- New scatter/gather list format for Series 7
- Driver converts s/g list to a firmware suitable list for best performance on
  Series 7, this can be disabled with driver parameter "aac_convert_sgl" for
  testing purposes
- New container read/write command structure for Series 7
- Fast response support for the SCSI pass-through path added
- Async. status response buffer changes

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;Mahesh_Rajashekhara@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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- Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support added
- New scatter/gather list format for Series 7
- Driver converts s/g list to a firmware suitable list for best performance on
  Series 7, this can be disabled with driver parameter "aac_convert_sgl" for
  testing purposes
- New container read/write command structure for Series 7
- Fast response support for the SCSI pass-through path added
- Async. status response buffer changes

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;Mahesh_Rajashekhara@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: Fix endian issues in core and SRC portions of driver</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T07:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Collins</name>
<email>bcollins@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-11T20:14:36+00:00</published>
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This may not fix all endian issues in this driver, but it does get the
driver working on PowerPC for a PMC SRC card. So it should at least fix
all the problems in the core and in the SRC support.

[jejb: fix &gt;&gt; 32 breakage reported by Fengguang Wu]
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins &lt;bcollins@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Achim Leubner &lt;Achim_Leubner@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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This may not fix all endian issues in this driver, but it does get the
driver working on PowerPC for a PMC SRC card. So it should at least fix
all the problems in the core and in the SRC support.

[jejb: fix &gt;&gt; 32 breakage reported by Fengguang Wu]
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins &lt;bcollins@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Achim Leubner &lt;Achim_Leubner@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: Added Sync.mode to support series 7/8/9 controllers</title>
<updated>2012-02-19T14:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Rajashekhara</name>
<email>Mahesh_Rajashekhara@pmc-sierra.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T06:51:04+00:00</published>
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Added Sync. mode to support Series 7/8/9 controller families: This is a
compatibility mode for all these controller families. The Async. (Performance)
mode can be changed in the future.  First Async. mode version added for Series
7; Controller parameter aac_sync_mode added

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;aacraid@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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Added Sync. mode to support Series 7/8/9 controller families: This is a
compatibility mode for all these controller families. The Async. (Performance)
mode can be changed in the future.  First Async. mode version added for Series
7; Controller parameter aac_sync_mode added

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;aacraid@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: Add new code for PMC-Sierra's SRC based controller family</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T16:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Rajashekhara</name>
<email>Mahesh_Rajashekhara@pmc-sierra.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-17T09:10:32+00:00</published>
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Added new hardware device 0x28b interface for PMC-Sierra's SRC based
controller family.

- new src.c file for 0x28b specific functions
- new XPORT header required
- sync. command interface: doorbell bits shifted (SRC_ODR_SHIFT, SRC_IDR_SHIFT)
- async. Interface: different inbound queue handling, no outbound I2O
  queue available, using doorbell ("PmDoorBellResponseSent") and
  response buffer on the host ("host_rrq") for status
- changed AIF (adapter initiated FIBs) interface: "DoorBellAifPending"
  bit to inform about pending AIF, "AifRequest" command to read AIF,
  "NoMoreAifDataAvailable" to mark the end of the AIFs

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;aacraid@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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Added new hardware device 0x28b interface for PMC-Sierra's SRC based
controller family.

- new src.c file for 0x28b specific functions
- new XPORT header required
- sync. command interface: doorbell bits shifted (SRC_ODR_SHIFT, SRC_IDR_SHIFT)
- async. Interface: different inbound queue handling, no outbound I2O
  queue available, using doorbell ("PmDoorBellResponseSent") and
  response buffer on the host ("host_rrq") for status
- changed AIF (adapter initiated FIBs) interface: "DoorBellAifPending"
  bit to inform about pending AIF, "AifRequest" command to read AIF,
  "NoMoreAifDataAvailable" to mark the end of the AIFs

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Rajashekhara &lt;aacraid@pmc-sierra.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: fix File System going into read-only mode</title>
<updated>2010-01-17T18:16:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Penchala Narasimha Reddy Chilakala, ERS-HCLTech</name>
<email>narasimhareddyc@hcl.in</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-21T13:09:27+00:00</published>
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These particular problems were reported by Cisco and SAP and customers
as well. Cisco reported on RHEL4 U6 and SAP reported on SLES9 SP4 and
SLES10 SP2. We added these fixes on RHEL4 U6 and gave a private build
to IBM and Cisco. Cisco and IBM tested it for more than 15 days and
they reported that they did not see the issue so far. Before the fix,
Cisco used to see the issue within 5 days. We generated a patch for
SLES9 SP4 and SLES10 SP2 and submitted to Novell. Novell applied the
patch and gave a test build to SAP. SAP tested and reported that the
build is working properly.

We also tested in our lab using the tools "dishogsync", which is IO
stress tool and the tool was provided by Cisco.

Issue1:  File System going into read-only mode

Root cause: The driver tends to not free the memory (FIB) when the
management request exits prematurely. The accumulation of such
un-freed memory causes the driver to fail to allocate anymore memory
(FIB) and hence return 0x70000 value to the upper layer, which puts
the file system into read only mode.

Fix details: The fix makes sure to free the memory (FIB) even if the
request exits prematurely hence ensuring the driver wouldn't run out
of memory (FIBs).


Issue2: False Raid Alert occurs

When the Physical Drives and Logical drives are reported as deleted or
added, even though there is no change done on the system

Root cause: Driver IOCTLs is signaled with EINTR while waiting on
response from the lower layers. Returning "EINTR" will never initiate
internal retry.

Fix details: The issue was fixed by replacing "EINTR" with
"ERESTARTSYS" for mid-layer retries.

Signed-off-by: Penchala Narasimha Reddy &lt;ServeRAIDDriver@hcl.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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These particular problems were reported by Cisco and SAP and customers
as well. Cisco reported on RHEL4 U6 and SAP reported on SLES9 SP4 and
SLES10 SP2. We added these fixes on RHEL4 U6 and gave a private build
to IBM and Cisco. Cisco and IBM tested it for more than 15 days and
they reported that they did not see the issue so far. Before the fix,
Cisco used to see the issue within 5 days. We generated a patch for
SLES9 SP4 and SLES10 SP2 and submitted to Novell. Novell applied the
patch and gave a test build to SAP. SAP tested and reported that the
build is working properly.

We also tested in our lab using the tools "dishogsync", which is IO
stress tool and the tool was provided by Cisco.

Issue1:  File System going into read-only mode

Root cause: The driver tends to not free the memory (FIB) when the
management request exits prematurely. The accumulation of such
un-freed memory causes the driver to fail to allocate anymore memory
(FIB) and hence return 0x70000 value to the upper layer, which puts
the file system into read only mode.

Fix details: The fix makes sure to free the memory (FIB) even if the
request exits prematurely hence ensuring the driver wouldn't run out
of memory (FIBs).


Issue2: False Raid Alert occurs

When the Physical Drives and Logical drives are reported as deleted or
added, even though there is no change done on the system

Root cause: Driver IOCTLs is signaled with EINTR while waiting on
response from the lower layers. Returning "EINTR" will never initiate
internal retry.

Fix details: The issue was fixed by replacing "EINTR" with
"ERESTARTSYS" for mid-layer retries.

Signed-off-by: Penchala Narasimha Reddy &lt;ServeRAIDDriver@hcl.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place</title>
<updated>2009-12-04T14:39:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>André Goddard Rosa</name>
<email>andre.goddard@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-14T15:09:05+00:00</published>
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That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa &lt;andre.goddard@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa &lt;andre.goddard@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid driver update</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T14:23:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leubner, Achim</name>
<email>Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-01T14:16:08+00:00</published>
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changes:

- set aac_cache=2 as default value to avoid performance problem
  (Novell bugzilla #469922)

- Dell/PERC controller boot problem fixed (RedHat bugzilla #457552)

- WWN flag added to fix SLES10 SP1/SP2 drive detection problems

- 64-bit support changes

- DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro added

- controller type changes

Signed-off-by: Achim Leubner &lt;aacraid@adaptec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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changes:

- set aac_cache=2 as default value to avoid performance problem
  (Novell bugzilla #469922)

- Dell/PERC controller boot problem fixed (RedHat bugzilla #457552)

- WWN flag added to fix SLES10 SP1/SP2 drive detection problems

- 64-bit support changes

- DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro added

- controller type changes

Signed-off-by: Achim Leubner &lt;aacraid@adaptec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] Clean up my email address and use a single standard address for everything</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T17:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-27T15:16:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support</title>
<updated>2008-05-02T18:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Salyzyn</name>
<email>Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T20:03:42+00:00</published>
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For firmware that supports the feature(s), add the ability to start or
stop an array using the associated SCSI commands, to automatically
manage the spin-up of an array on new I/O reporting back the
appropriate check conditions and actions in cooperation with the
normal timeout mechanisms and enable the blackout period management in
the Firmware associated with the background spin-down of the arrays
when the Firmware times out and deems the arrays as idle.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;aacraid@adaptec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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For firmware that supports the feature(s), add the ability to start or
stop an array using the associated SCSI commands, to automatically
manage the spin-up of an array on new I/O reporting back the
appropriate check conditions and actions in cooperation with the
normal timeout mechanisms and enable the blackout period management in
the Firmware associated with the background spin-down of the arrays
when the Firmware times out and deems the arrays as idle.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;aacraid@adaptec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h</title>
<updated>2008-04-19T02:16:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew@wil.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-19T02:16:32+00:00</published>
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None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they rely on it dragging in some
unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have
fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they rely on it dragging in some
unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have
fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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