Re: [PATCH 08/10] mpt3sas: set EEDP-escape-flags for SAS35 devices.

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 10/20/2016 02:20 PM, Suganath Prabu S wrote:
> An UNMAP command on a PI formatted device will leave the Logical Block
> Application Tag and Logical Block Reference Tag as all F's (for those LBAs
> that are unmapped). To avoid IO errors if those LBAs are subsequently read
> before they are written with valid tag fields, the MPI SCSI IO requests
> need to set the EEDPFlags element EEDP Escape Mode field, Bits [7:6]
> appropriately. A value of 2 should be set to disable all PI checks if the
> Logical Block Application Tag is 0xFFFF for PI types 1 and 2.  A value
> of 3 should be set to disable all PI checks if the Logical Block
> Application Tag is 0xFFFF and the Logical Block Reference Tag is
> 0xFFFFFFFF for PI type 3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suganath Prabu S <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
> index a1c541d..c58f326 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
> @@ -3989,6 +3989,9 @@ _scsih_setup_eedp(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, struct scsi_cmnd *scmd,
>
>  	mpi_request_3v->EEDPBlockSize =
>  	    cpu_to_le16(scmd->device->sector_size);
> +
> +	if (ioc->is_gen35_ioc)
> +		eedp_flags |= MPI25_SCSIIO_EEDPFLAGS_APPTAG_DISABLE_MODE;
>  	mpi_request->EEDPFlags = cpu_to_le16(eedp_flags);
>  }
>
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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