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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] [SCSI] scsi_dh: change scsi_dh_detach export to EXPORT_SYMBOL
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:34:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420173405.GA8846@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120420144538.GB8155@redhat.com>

Allow a proprietary non-GPL multipath driver, like EMC PowerPath, to
detach a scsi_dh using scsi_dh_detach.  This is an improvement over
requiring them to write 'detach' to /sys/block/sdX/queue/dh_state

End result is Linux and PowerPath can coexist without compromising
Linux's default handling of multipath LUNs.

Linux has suffered from the race where a scsi_dh is not available to be
attached to a SCSI device until too late (after an HBA driver has
started the SCSI device scan that may attach a scsi_dh).  Attaching a
scsi_dh too late results in default sense handling that does not
silently end IO to passive paths, which creates excessive delays and IO
errors during normal boot of a system with hundreds of LUNs.

To fix this the appropriate scsi_dh must be available to be attached
before an HBA driver's SCSI device scan.  But once attached, both
scsi_dh_alua and scsi_dh_emc are known to conflict with PowerPath --
allowing PowerPath to use scsi_dh_detach resolves such conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

v2: header tweaks, added Chandra's Acked-by
    p.s. James, if you still think I'm too indirect or long-winded
    please feel free to change the header accordingly.  Thanks!

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
index 23149b9..a550de1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ void scsi_dh_detach(struct request_queue *q)
 	}
 	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_dh_detach);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_dh_detach);
 
 static struct notifier_block scsi_dh_nb = {
 	.notifier_call = scsi_dh_notifier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-15 21:44 [RFC PATCH] scsi_dh: allow 3rd party multipath drivers to scsi_dh_detach Mike Snitzer
2011-12-20  7:31 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-05 15:24   ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-05 14:47   ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-20 14:45     ` [RESEND][PATCH] [SCSI] scsi_dh: allow 3rd party multipath drivers to use scsi_dh_detach Mike Snitzer
2012-04-20 15:17       ` James Bottomley
2012-04-20 15:46         ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-20 15:49         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2012-04-20 17:34       ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2012-04-20 20:41         ` [PATCH v2] [SCSI] scsi_dh: change scsi_dh_detach export to EXPORT_SYMBOL Alan Cox
2012-04-20 21:58           ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-20 22:20             ` Alan Cox
2012-04-20 22:58               ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-20 23:14                 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-20 23:34                   ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-22 22:13                   ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-22 22:34                     ` Alan Cox
2012-04-22 23:01                       ` Mike Snitzer
2012-04-22 23:13                         ` Alan Cox

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