Re: [smartpqi updates PATCH V2 00/11] smartpqi updates

From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Don Brace <don.brace@microchip.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	gerry.morong@microchip.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	balsundar.p@microchip.com, mwilck@suse.com,
	Kevin.Barnett@microchip.com, POSWALD@suse.com,
	mike.mcgowen@microchip.com, jeff@canonical.com,
	scott.teel@microchip.com, murthy.bhat@microchip.com,
	joseph.szczypek@hpe.com, scott.benesh@microchip.com,
	mahesh.rajashekhara@microchip.com, Justin.Lindley@microchip.com,
	pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de, john.p.donnelly@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [smartpqi updates PATCH V2 00/11] smartpqi updates
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:35:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <163407081305.28503.12881597564561731203.b4-ty@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928235442.201875-1-don.brace@microchip.com>

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:54:31 -0500, Don Brace wrote:

> These patches are based on Martin Petersen's 5.16/scsi-queue tree
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git
>   5.16/scsi-queue
> 
> This set of changes consist of:
>   * Aligning device removal with our out of box driver.
>   * Aligning kdump timing with controller memory dump.
>     The OS was rebooting before the controller was finished dumping its own
>     memory. Now the driver will wait for the controller to indicate that its
>     dump has completed.
>   * In rare cases where the controller stops responding to the driver, the
>     driver can set reason codes to aid in debugging.
>   * Enhance device reset operations. The driver was not obtaining the current
>     number of outstanding commands during the check for outstanding command
>     completions. This was causing reset hangs.
>   * Add in a check for HBA devices undergoing sanitize. This was causing long
>     boot up delays while the OS waited for sanitize to complete. The fix is to
>     check for sanitize and keep the HBA disk offline. Note that the SSA spec
>     states that the disk must be manually re-enabled after sanitize has
>     completed. The link to the spec is noted in the patch.
>   * When the OS off-lines a disk, the SCSI command pointers are cleaned up.
>     The driver was attempting to return some outstanding commands that were
>     no longer valid.
>   * Add in more enhanced report physical luns (RPL) command. This is an
>     internal command that yields more complete WWID information.
>   * Correct a rare case where a poll for a register status before the
>     register has been updated.
>   * When multi-LUN tape devices are added to the OS, the OS does its own
>     report LUNs and the tape devices were duplicated. A simple fix was to update
>     slave_alloc/slave_configure to prevent this.
>   * Add in some new PCI devices.
>   * Bump the driver version.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.16/scsi-queue, thanks!

[01/11] smartpqi: update device removal management
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/819225b03dc7
[02/11] smartpqi: add controller handshake during kdump
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/9ee5d6e9ac52
[03/11] smartpqi: capture controller reason codes
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/5d1f03e6f49a
[04/11] smartpqi: update LUN reset handler
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/6ce1ddf53252
[05/11] smartpqi: add tur check for sanitize operation
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/be76f90668d8
[06/11] smartpqi: avoid failing ios for offline devices
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/4f3cefc3084d
[07/11] smartpqi: add extended report physical luns
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/28ca6d876c5a
[08/11] smartpqi: fix boot failure during lun rebuild
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/987d35605b7e
[09/11] smartpqi: fix duplicate device nodes for tape changers
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/d4dc6aea93cb
[10/11] smartpqi: add 3252-8i pci id
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/80982656b78e
[11/11] smartpqi: update version to 2.1.12-055
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/605ae389ea02

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering