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<updated>2011-06-26T16:46:40Z</updated>
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<title>mptfusion: Fix Incorrect return value in mptscsih_dev_reset</title>
<updated>2011-06-26T16:46:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kashyap, Desai</name>
<email>kashyap.desai@lsi.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-10T06:23:44Z</published>
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commit bcfe42e98047f1935c5571c8ea77beb2d43ec19d upstream.

There's a branch at the end of this function that
is supposed to normalize the return value with what
the mid-layer expects. In this one case, we get it wrong.

Also increase the verbosity of the INFO level printk
at the end of mptscsih_abort to include the actual return value
and the scmd-&gt;serial_number. The reason being success
or failure is actually determined by the state of
the internal tag list when a TMF is issued, and not the
return value of the TMF cmd. The serial_number is also
used in this decision, thus it's useful to know for debugging
purposes.

Reported-by: Peter M. Petrakis &lt;peter.petrakis@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai &lt;kashyap.desai@lsi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c</title>
<updated>2011-06-26T16:46:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kashyap, Desai</name>
<email>kashyap.desai@lsi.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-10T06:22:21Z</published>
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commit 84857c8bf83e8aa87afc57d2956ba01f11d82386 upstream.

Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops.
Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on
mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released.

Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai &lt;kashyap.desai@lsi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through</title>
<updated>2011-01-06T23:08:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Kuester</name>
<email>rkuester@kspace.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-26T23:11:54Z</published>
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commit 2a1b7e575b80ceb19ea50bfa86ce0053ea57181d upstream.

I may have an explanation for the LSI 1068 HBA hangs provoked by ATA
pass-through commands, in particular by smartctl.

First, my version of the symptoms.  On an LSI SAS1068E B3 HBA running
01.29.00.00 firmware, with SATA disks, and with smartd running, I'm seeing
occasional task, bus, and host resets, some of which lead to hard faults of
the HBA requiring a reboot.  Abusively looping the smartctl command,

    # while true; do smartctl -a /dev/sdb &gt; /dev/null; done

dramatically increases the frequency of these failures to nearly one per
minute.  A high IO load through the HBA while looping smartctl seems to
improve the chance of a full scsi host reset or a non-recoverable hang.

I reduced what smartctl was doing down to a simple test case which
causes the hang with a single IO when pointed at the sd interface.  See
the code at the bottom of this e-mail.  It uses an SG_IO ioctl to issue
a single pass-through ATA identify device command.  If the buffer
userspace gives for the read data has certain alignments, the task is
issued to the HBA but the HBA fails to respond.  If run against the sg
interface, neither the test code nor smartctl causes a hang.

sd and sg handle the SG_IO ioctl slightly differently.  Unless you
specifically set a flag to do direct IO, sg passes a buffer of its own,
which is page-aligned, to the block layer and later copies the result
into the userspace buffer regardless of its alignment.  sd, on the other
hand, always does direct IO unless the userspace buffer fails an
alignment test at block/blk-map.c line 57, in which case a page-aligned
buffer is created and used for the transfer.

The alignment test currently checks for word-alignment, the default
setup by scsi_lib.c; therefore, userspace buffers of almost any
alignment are given directly to the HBA as DMA targets.  The LSI 1068
hardware doesn't seem to like at least a couple of the alignments which
cross a page boundary (see the test code below).  Curiously, many
page-boundary-crossing alignments do work just fine.

So, either the hardware has an bug handling certain alignments or the
hardware has a stricter alignment requirement than the driver is
advertising.  If stricter alignment is required, then in no case should
misaligned buffers from userspace be allowed through without being
bounced or at least causing an error to be returned.

It seems the mptsas driver could use blk_queue_dma_alignment() to advertise
a stricter alignment requirement.  If it does, sd does the right thing and
bounces misaligned buffers (see block/blk-map.c line 57).  The following
patch to 2.6.34-rc5 makes my symptoms go away.  I'm sure this is the wrong
place for this code, but it gets my idea across.

Acked-by: "Desai, Kashyap" &lt;Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11Z</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T15:55:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2010-03-08T15:55:37Z</published>
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T15:55:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-02T15:55:08Z</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1341 commits)
  virtio_net: remove forgotten assignment
  be2net: fix tx completion polling
  sis190: fix cable detect via link status poll
  net: fix protocol sk_buff field
  bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled
  bnx2x: Tx barriers and locks
  scm: Only support SCM_RIGHTS on unix domain sockets.
  vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full
  vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling
  vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer
  vhost: logging thinko fix
  wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
  ethtool: do not set some flags, if others failed
  ipoib: returned back addrlen check for mc addresses
  netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
  axnet_cs: add new id
  bridge: Make IGMP snooping depend upon BRIDGE.
  bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries
  bridge: Add hash elasticity/max sysfs entries
  bridge: Add multicast_snooping sysfs toggle
  ...

Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T17:00:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T17:00:29Z</published>
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* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T03:23:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T03:23:06Z</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-02-27T00:55:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-27T00:55:27Z</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (158 commits)
  [SCSI] Fix printing of failed 32-byte commands
  [SCSI] Fix printing of variable length commands
  [SCSI] libsrp: fix bug in ADDITIONAL CDB LENGTH interpretation
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Add IBM Power Virtual SCSI ALUA device to dev list
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: add netapp to dev list
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.02-k1.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: EEH: Restore PCI saved state during pci slot reset.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add firmware ETS burst support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct loop-resync issues during SNS scans.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct use-after-free issue in terminate_rport_io callback.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct EH bus-reset handling.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Proper clean-up of BSG requests when request times out.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Initialize payload receive length in failure path of vendor commands
  [SCSI] fix duplicate removal on error path in scsi_sysfs_add_sdev
  [SCSI] fix refcounting bug in scsi_get_host_dev
  [SCSI] fix memory leak in scsi_report_lun_scan
  [SCSI] lpfc: correct PPC build failure
  [SCSI] raid_class: add raid1e
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: Do not call sas_is_tlr_enabled for RAID volumes.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Introduce header file for qdio structs and inline functions
  ...
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<title>block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T12:58:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T05:20:39Z</published>
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Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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