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authorNicholas Bellinger <nab@daterainc.com>2013-08-19 15:20:28 -0700
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2013-09-10 16:41:59 -0700
commit68ff9b9b27525cdaaea81890456f65aed5ce0b70 (patch)
tree80219e09e0c9d42b4ae61987075d9d03624695fc /Documentation/applying-patches.txt
parent0123a9ec6a4fea20d5afea90c9b47fb73fb1bc34 (diff)
target: Add support for COMPARE_AND_WRITE emulation
This patch adds support for COMPARE_AND_WRITE emulation on a per block basis. This logic is used as an atomic test and set primative currently used by VMWare ESX VAAI for performing array side locking of individual VMFS extent ownership. This includes the COMPARE_AND_WRITE CDB parsing within sbc_parse_cdb(), and does the majority of the work within the compare_and_write_callback() to perform the verify instance user data comparision, and subsequent write instance user data I/O submission upon a successfull comparision. The synchronization is enforced by se_device->caw_sem, that is obtained before the initial READ I/O submission in sbc_compare_and_write(). The mutex is then released upon MISCOMPARE in compare_and_write_callback(), or upon WRITE instance user-data completion in compare_and_write_post(). The implementation currently assumes a single logical block (NoLB=1). v4 changes: - Explicitly clear cmd->transport_complete_callback for two failure cases in sbc_compare_and_write() in order to avoid double unlock of ->caw_sem in compare_and_write_callback() (Dan Carpenter) v3 changes: - Convert se_device->caw_mutex to ->caw_sem v2 changes: - Set SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE and cmd->execute_cmd() to sbc_compare_and_write() during setup in sbc_parse_cdb() - Use sbc_compare_and_write() for initial READ submission with DMA_FROM_DEVICE - Reset cmd->execute_cmd() to sbc_execute_rw() for write instance user-data in compare_and_write_callback() - Drop SCF_BIDI command flag usage - Set TRANSPORT_PROCESSING + transport_state flags before write instance submission, and convert to __target_execute_cmd() - Prevent sbc_get_size() from being being called twice to generate incorrect size in sbc_parse_cdb() - Enforce se_device->caw_mutex synchronization between initial READ I/O submission, and final WRITE I/O completion. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Martin Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@daterainc.com>
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