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Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:27:27 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>, <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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        <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>, <tj@...nel.org>, <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@...wei.com>,
        Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>, Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] scsi: libsas: fix issue of swapping two sas disks

On 01/02/2019 02:04, Jason Yan wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/2/1 0:34, John Garry wrote:
>> On 31/01/2019 02:55, Jason Yan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2019/1/31 1:53, John Garry wrote:
>>>> On 30/01/2019 08:24, Jason Yan wrote:
>>>>> The work flow of revalidation now is scanning expander phy by the
>>>>> sequence of the phy and check if the phy have changed. This will leads
>>>>> to an issue of swapping two sas disks on one expander.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assume we have two sas disks, connected with expander phy10 and phy11:
>>>>>
>>>>> phy10: 5000cca04eb1001d  port-0:0:10
>>>>> phy11: 5000cca04eb043ad  port-0:0:11
>>>>>
>>>>> Swap these two disks, and imaging the following scenario:
>>>>>
>>>>> revalidation 1:
>>>>
>>>> What does "revalidation 1" actually mean?
>>>
>>> 'revalidation 1' means one entry in sas_discover_domain().
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>   -->phy10: 0 --> delete phy10 domain device
>>>>>   -->phy11: 5000cca04eb043ad (no change)
>>>>
>>>> so is disk 11 still inserted at this stage?
>>>
>>> Maybe, but that's what we read from the hardware.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> revalidation done
>>>>>
>>>>> revalidation 2:
>>>>
>>>> is port-0:0:10 deleted now?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. But we don't care about it.
>>>
>>>>>   -->step 1, check phy10:
>>>>>   -->phy10: 5000cca04eb043ad   --> add to wide port(port-0:0:11)
>>>>> (phy11
>>>>>        address is still 5000cca04eb043ad now)
>>
>> We do not want this to happen and it seems to be the crux of the problem.
>>
>> As an alternate to your solution, how about check if the PHY is an end
>> device. If so, it should not form/join a wideport; that is, apart from
>> dual-port disks, which I am not sure about - I think each port still has
>> a unique WWN, so should be ok.
>>
>
> If the PHY do not join a wideport, then it have to form a wideport of
> it's own. I'm not sure if we can have two ports with the same address
> and do not break anything?

I'm not sure, but port-0:0:11 should be deleted from step 2, just after 
this step, below.

Thanks,
John

>
>>>>
>>>> So this should not happen. How are you physcially swapping them such
>>>> that phy11 address is still 5000cca04eb043ad? I don't see how this
>>>> would
>>>> be true at revalidation 1.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This issue is because we always process the PHYs from 0 to max phy
>>> number. And please be aware of the real physcial address of the PHY and
>>> the address stored in the memory is not always the same.
>>> Actually when you checking phy10, phy11 physcial address is not
>>> 5000cca04eb043ad. But the address stored in domain device is still
>>> 5000cca04eb043ad. We have not get a chance to to read it because we are
>>> processing phy10 now, right?
>>>
>>
>> I see.
>>
>>> It's very easy to reproduce. I suggest you to do it yourself and look at
>>> the logs.
>>>
>>
>> I can't physically access the backpane, and this is not the sort of
>> thing which is easy to fake by hacking the driver.
>>
>> And the log which you provided internally does not have much - if any -
>> libsas logs to help me understand it.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   -->step 2, check phy11:
>>>>>   -->phy11: 0  --> phy11 address is 0 now, but it's part of wide
>>>>>        port(port-0:0:11), the domain device will not be deleted.
>>>>> revalidation done
>>>>>
>>>>> revalidation 3:
>>>>>   -->phy10, 5000cca04eb043ad (no change)
>>>>>   -->phy11: 5000cca04eb1001d --> try to add port-0:0:11 but failed,
>>>>>        port-0:0:11 already exist, trigger a warning as follows
>>>>> revalidation done
>>>>>
>>>>> [14790.189699] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
>>>>> '/devices/pci0000:74/0000:74:02.0/host0/port-0:0/expander-0:0/port-0:0:11'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [14790.201081] CPU: 25 PID: 5031 Comm: kworker/u192:3 Not tainted
>>>>> 4.16.0-rc1-191134-g138f084-dirty #228
>>>>> [14790.210199] Hardware name: Huawei D06/D06, BIOS Hisilicon D06 EC
>>>>> UEFI
>>>>> Nemo 2.0 RC0 - B303 05/16/2018
>>>>> [14790.219323] Workqueue: 0000:74:02.0_disco_q sas_revalidate_domain
>>>>> [14790.225404] Call trace:
>>>>> [14790.227842]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x18c
>>>>> [14790.231492]  show_stack+0x14/0x1c
>>>>> [14790.234798]  dump_stack+0x88/0xac
>>>>> [14790.238101]  sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x7c
>>>>> [14790.241751]  sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x90/0xa0
>>>>> [14790.245835]  kobject_add_internal+0xa0/0x284
>>>>> [14790.250092]  kobject_add+0xb8/0x11c
>>>>> [14790.253570]  device_add+0xe8/0x598
>>>>> [14790.256960]  sas_port_add+0x24/0x50
>>>>> [14790.260436]  sas_ex_discover_devices+0xb10/0xc30
>>>>> [14790.265040]  sas_ex_revalidate_domain+0x1d8/0x518
>>>>> [14790.269731]  sas_revalidate_domain+0x12c/0x154
>>>>> [14790.274163]  process_one_work+0x128/0x2b0
>>>>> [14790.278160]  worker_thread+0x14c/0x408
>>>>> [14790.281897]  kthread+0xfc/0x128
>>>>> [14790.285026]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>>>>> [14790.288598] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>>
>>>>> At last, the disk 5000cca04eb1001d is lost.
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>
>
> .
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