linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] scsi: libsas: always unregister the old device if going to discover new

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Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:55:26 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
To:     Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        john.garry@...wei.com, zhaohongjiang@...wei.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, jthumshirn@...e.de, hch@....de,
        huangdaode@...ilicon.com, chenxiang66@...ilicon.com,
        miaoxie@...wei.com, Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>,
        Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] scsi: libsas: always unregister the old device if
 going to discover new

On 09/12/2018 10:29 AM, Jason Yan wrote:
> If we went into sas_rediscover_dev() the attached_sas_addr was already
> insured not to be zero. So it's unnecessary to check if the
> attached_sas_addr is zero.
> 
> And although if the sas address is not changed, we always have to
> unregister the old device when we are going to register a new one. We
> cannot just leave the device there and bring up the new.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>
> CC: chenxiang <chenxiang66@...ilicon.com>
> CC: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> CC: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
> CC: Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>
> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> CC: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 13 +++++--------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> index fadc99cb60df..52222940d398 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> @@ -2054,14 +2054,11 @@ static int sas_rediscover_dev(struct domain_device *dev, int phy_id, bool last)
>  		return res;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* delete the old link */
> -	if (SAS_ADDR(phy->attached_sas_addr) &&
> -	    SAS_ADDR(sas_addr) != SAS_ADDR(phy->attached_sas_addr)) {
> -		SAS_DPRINTK("ex %016llx phy 0x%x replace %016llx\n",
> -			    SAS_ADDR(dev->sas_addr), phy_id,
> -			    SAS_ADDR(phy->attached_sas_addr));
> -		sas_unregister_devs_sas_addr(dev, phy_id, last);
> -	}
> +	/* we always have to delete the old device when we went here */
> +	SAS_DPRINTK("ex %016llx phy 0x%x replace %016llx\n",
> +		    SAS_ADDR(dev->sas_addr), phy_id,
> +		    SAS_ADDR(phy->attached_sas_addr));
> +	sas_unregister_devs_sas_addr(dev, phy_id, last);
>  
>  	return sas_discover_new(dev, phy_id);
>  }
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>

Cheers,

Hannes