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Message-ID: <4D777249.10400@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:27:53 +0100
From:	Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
To:	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
CC:	james.bottomley@...senpartnership.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, smcameron@...oo.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mikem@...rdog.cce.hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hpsa: export resettable_on_kexec host attribute

On 03/09/2011 12:10 AM, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
>
> This attribute, requested by Redhat, allows kexec-tools to know
> whether the controller can honor the reset_devices kernel parameter
> and actually reset the controller.  For kdump to work properly it
> is necessary that the reset_devices parameter be honored.  This
> attribute enables kexec-tools to warn the user if they attempt to
> designate a non-resettable controller as the dump device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> index dcabef4..1d4fe80 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> @@ -273,6 +273,44 @@ static ssize_t host_show_transport_mode(struct device *dev,
>  			"performant" : "simple");
>  }
>  
> +/* List of controllers which cannot be reset on kexec with reset_devices */
> +static u32 unresettable_controller[] = {
> +	0x324a103C, /* Smart Array P712m */
> +	0x324b103C, /* SmartArray P711m */
> +	0x3223103C, /* Smart Array P800 */
> +	0x3234103C, /* Smart Array P400 */
> +	0x3235103C, /* Smart Array P400i */
> +	0x3211103C, /* Smart Array E200i */
> +	0x3212103C, /* Smart Array E200 */
> +	0x3213103C, /* Smart Array E200i */
> +	0x3214103C, /* Smart Array E200i */
> +	0x3215103C, /* Smart Array E200i */
> +	0x3237103C, /* Smart Array E500 */
> +	0x3223103C, /* Smart Array P800 */
> +	0x3234103C, /* Smart Array P400 */
> +	0x323D103C, /* Smart Array P700m */
> +};
>   
Hi Stephen,

thanks for posting this.
Some of the devices are served by the cciss driver by default - I guess
a very similar patch for cciss is needed too.
Shouldn't be the 0x409C0E11 and 0x409D0E11 (640x boards) also added to the list?
(And the 'unknown' devices.)

Tomas

> +
> +static int resettable_on_kexec(struct ctlr_info *h)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(unresettable_controller); i++)
> +		if (unresettable_controller[i] == h->board_id)
> +			return 0;
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +
> +static ssize_t host_show_resettable_on_kexec(struct device *dev,
> +	struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	struct ctlr_info *h;
> +	struct Scsi_Host *shost = class_to_shost(dev);
> +
> +	h = shost_to_hba(shost);
> +	return snprintf(buf, 20, "%d\n", resettable_on_kexec(h));
> +}
> +
>  static inline int is_logical_dev_addr_mode(unsigned char scsi3addr[])
>  {
>  	return (scsi3addr[3] & 0xC0) == 0x40;
> @@ -379,6 +417,8 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(commands_outstanding, S_IRUGO,
>  	host_show_commands_outstanding, NULL);
>  static DEVICE_ATTR(transport_mode, S_IRUGO,
>  	host_show_transport_mode, NULL);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(resettable_on_kexec, S_IRUGO,
> +	host_show_resettable_on_kexec, NULL);
>  
>  static struct device_attribute *hpsa_sdev_attrs[] = {
>  	&dev_attr_raid_level,
> @@ -392,6 +432,7 @@ static struct device_attribute *hpsa_shost_attrs[] = {
>  	&dev_attr_firmware_revision,
>  	&dev_attr_commands_outstanding,
>  	&dev_attr_transport_mode,
> +	&dev_attr_resettable_on_kexec,
>  	NULL,
>  };
>  
>
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