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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:27:35 -0600
From:	scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com
To:	Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.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 Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:27:53PM +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

> Shouldn't be the 0x409C0E11 and 0x409D0E11 (640x boards) also added to the list?
> (And the 'unknown' devices.)

Yes, thanks.

-- steve

> 
> 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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