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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:22:25 -0500
From:	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
To:	hch@...radead.org
Cc:	bruce.lucas@...godb.com, adam.radford@...gotech.com,
	kashyap.desai@...gotech.com,
	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>,
	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@...gotech.com>,
	Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@...gotech.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>,
	Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@...gotech.com>,
	MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...gotech.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks

When using a virtual SCSI disk in a VMWare VM if blkdev_issue_zeroout is used
data can be improperly zeroed out using the mptfusion driver. This patch
disables write_same for this driver and the vmware subsystem_vendor which
ensures that manual zeroing out is used instead.

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371591
Reported-by: Bruce Lucas <bruce.lucas@...godb.com>
Tested-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
index 787933d..613231c 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
@@ -1419,6 +1419,11 @@ mptspi_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 		goto out_mptspi_probe;
         }
 
+	/* VMWare emulation doesn't properly implement WRITE_SAME
+	 */
+	if (pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x15AD)
+		sh->no_write_same = 1;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags);
 
 	/* Attach the SCSI Host to the IOC structure
-- 
1.9.1

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