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Date:   Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:56:10 +0900
From:   Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@...nsource.wdc.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, artur.paszkiewicz@...el.com,
        jinpu.wang@...ud.ionos.com, chenxiang66@...ilicon.com,
        Ajish.Koshy@...rochip.com
Cc:     yanaijie@...wei.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxarm@...wei.com, liuqi115@...wei.com, Viswas.G@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] scsi: libsas and users: Factor out LLDD TMF code

On 1/27/22 19:17, John Garry wrote:
> On 27/01/2022 06:37, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> 
> Hi Damien,
> 
>> I did some light testing of this series (boot + some fio runs) and
>> everything looks good using my "ATTO Technology, Inc. ExpressSAS 12Gb/s
>> SAS/SATA HBA (rev 06)" HBA (x86_64 host).
> 
> Yeah, unfortunately these steps prob won't exercise much of the code 
> changes here since I figure error handling would not kick in.

I have SMR drives on that adapter, and generating errors with these is
*really* easy :)
ZBC test suite forces errors to check ASC/ASCQ so it will be a good test.

> 
> However using this same adapter type on my arm64 system has error 
> handling kick in almost straight away - and the handling looks sane. A 
> silver lining, I suppose ..
> 
>>
>> Of note is that "make W=1 M=drivers/scsi" complains with:
>>
>> drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c:3938: warning: Function parameter or
>> member 'circularQ' not described in 'process_one_iomb'
> 
> That's per-existing. I'll send a patch for that now along with another 
> fix I found for that driver. ....
> 
>>
>> And sparse/make C=1 complains about:
>>
>> drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_port.c:77:13: warning: context imbalance in
>> 'sas_form_port' - different lock contexts for basic block
> 
> I think it's talking about the port->phy_list_lock usage - it prob 
> doesn't like segments where we fall out a loop with the lock held (which 
> was grabbed in the loop). Anyway it looks ok. Maybe we can improve this.
> 
>>
>> But I have not checked if it is something that your series touch.
>>
>> And there is a ton of complaints about __le32 use in the pm80xx code...
>> I can try to have a look at these if you want, on top of your series.
> 
> I really need to get make C=1 working for me - it segfaults in any env I 
> have :(

Weird... All I did was install sparse (dnf install) and it works for me.
Running Fedora.

I will send patches for these.

> 
> Thanks,
> John


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research

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