Re: eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

2013-10-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Praveen Murali pmur...@logicube.com wrote:
 diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
 index 161c98efade9..d0fb99d5da95 100644
 --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
 +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
 @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static unsigned int sas_ata_qc_issue(struct
 ata_queued_cmd *qc)
  qc-tf.nsect = 0;
  }

 -   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
 +   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, qc-dev-link-pmp, 1,
 (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
  task-uldd_task = qc;
  if (ata_is_atapi(qc-tf.protocol)) {
  memcpy(task-ata_task.atapi_packet, qc-cdb,
 qc-dev-cdb_len);

 Hi Dan,
   I tested this patch and it works great!


Thanks!  I'll send it up with your Reported-by and Tested-by.

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Re: eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

2013-10-16 Thread Praveen Murali


On 10/15/2013 06:11 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Praveen Murali pmur...@logicube.com wrote:

Dan/James,
  Can you please take a look at this and let me know if I am at the right
place? Or point me in the right direction? As I understand, this deost not
look like an mvsas driver issue.


Looks like a latent bug in libsas to me.  Commit 110dd8f1 [SCSI]
libsas: fix scr_read/write users and update the libata documentation
looks like a compile fix when the build was broken by commit  9977126c
libata: add @is_cmd to ata_tf_to_fis() where libata changed the
interface for ata_tf_to_fis().  We were passing 0 for pmp prior to
that and changed to 1 here, probably a typo intending 'is_cmd to
always be 1.

Somehow we have gotten away with is_cmd being 0?  Does the following
patch work for you:

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
index 161c98efade9..d0fb99d5da95 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static unsigned int sas_ata_qc_issue(struct
ata_queued_cmd *qc)
 qc-tf.nsect = 0;
 }

-   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
+   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, qc-dev-link-pmp, 1, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
 task-uldd_task = qc;
 if (ata_is_atapi(qc-tf.protocol)) {
 memcpy(task-ata_task.atapi_packet, qc-cdb, qc-dev-cdb_len);


Hi Dan,
  I tested this patch and it works great!

Thanks,
Praveen

That being said I don't think anybody has really checked out
port-multiplier support on libsas, but we shouldn't be setting this
bit by default.

--
Dan



On 10/14/2013 05:18 PM, Praveen Murali wrote:

Hi,
   I have couple of external drives (Western Digital and Seagate) that have
an eSATA interface. My Linux box with a Marvell HBA (9445) running Ubuntu
12.04 with 3.2.48 kernel doest not seem to detect the drive. I tried with
the latest upstream kernel and it behaves the same. But both the drives
detect fine if I enter the mvsas BIOS during bootup. So I have hooked up a
SATA analyzer and this is what I found
- When I tried to detect the drives in the mvsas BIOS, all the ATA
commands that the bios issues have the port multiplier byte set to 0.
- If I bootup my Linux system and then connect the drives, the first
IDENTIFY command has the port multiplier set to 0 (this one is successful)
and the subsequent IDENTIFY command has port multiplier set to 1 (this one
fails).

I assume the first IDENTIFY is coming from the BIOS, not Linux correct?


- If I connect any other SATA drives I have to the HBA, all the ATA
commands have port multiplier set to 1 but they detects and work fine.

Just to rule out the port-multiplier possibility I changed the following
line in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c - fucntion sas_ata_qc_issue()

ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

to

ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 0, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

now all my drives seem to detect just fine. I believe, the eSATA interface
on these external drives is a port multiplier, which is why the command
fails. Also, the normal drives ignore this field thats why they work fine
with port multiplier being set to either 0 or 1.

Question(s): Are my above assumtions correct? If so, what is the reasoning
behind setting the port multiplier to 1 by default in libsas layer?

Thanks,
Praveen




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Re: eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

2013-10-15 Thread Praveen Murali

Dan/James,
 Can you please take a look at this and let me know if I am at the 
right place? Or point me in the right direction? As I understand, this 
deost not look like an mvsas driver issue.


Thanks,
Praveen

On 10/14/2013 05:18 PM, Praveen Murali wrote:

Hi,
  I have couple of external drives (Western Digital and Seagate) that 
have an eSATA interface. My Linux box with a Marvell HBA (9445) 
running Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.48 kernel doest not seem to detect the 
drive. I tried with the latest upstream kernel and it behaves the 
same. But both the drives detect fine if I enter the mvsas BIOS during 
bootup. So I have hooked up a SATA analyzer and this is what I found
- When I tried to detect the drives in the mvsas BIOS, all the ATA 
commands that the bios issues have the port multiplier byte set to 0.
- If I bootup my Linux system and then connect the drives, the first 
IDENTIFY command has the port multiplier set to 0 (this one is 
successful) and the subsequent IDENTIFY command has port multiplier 
set to 1 (this one fails).
- If I connect any other SATA drives I have to the HBA, all the ATA 
commands have port multiplier set to 1 but they detects and work fine.


Just to rule out the port-multiplier possibility I changed the 
following line in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c - fucntion 
sas_ata_qc_issue()


ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

to

ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 0, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

now all my drives seem to detect just fine. I believe, the eSATA 
interface on these external drives is a port multiplier, which is why 
the command fails. Also, the normal drives ignore this field thats why 
they work fine with port multiplier being set to either 0 or 1.


Question(s): Are my above assumtions correct? If so, what is the 
reasoning behind setting the port multiplier to 1 by default in libsas 
layer?


Thanks,
Praveen



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Re: eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

2013-10-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Praveen Murali pmur...@logicube.com wrote:
 Dan/James,
  Can you please take a look at this and let me know if I am at the right
 place? Or point me in the right direction? As I understand, this deost not
 look like an mvsas driver issue.


Looks like a latent bug in libsas to me.  Commit 110dd8f1 [SCSI]
libsas: fix scr_read/write users and update the libata documentation
looks like a compile fix when the build was broken by commit  9977126c
libata: add @is_cmd to ata_tf_to_fis() where libata changed the
interface for ata_tf_to_fis().  We were passing 0 for pmp prior to
that and changed to 1 here, probably a typo intending 'is_cmd to
always be 1.

Somehow we have gotten away with is_cmd being 0?  Does the following
patch work for you:

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
index 161c98efade9..d0fb99d5da95 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static unsigned int sas_ata_qc_issue(struct
ata_queued_cmd *qc)
qc-tf.nsect = 0;
}

-   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
+   ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, qc-dev-link-pmp, 1, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);
task-uldd_task = qc;
if (ata_is_atapi(qc-tf.protocol)) {
memcpy(task-ata_task.atapi_packet, qc-cdb, qc-dev-cdb_len);


That being said I don't think anybody has really checked out
port-multiplier support on libsas, but we shouldn't be setting this
bit by default.

--
Dan


 On 10/14/2013 05:18 PM, Praveen Murali wrote:

 Hi,
   I have couple of external drives (Western Digital and Seagate) that have
 an eSATA interface. My Linux box with a Marvell HBA (9445) running Ubuntu
 12.04 with 3.2.48 kernel doest not seem to detect the drive. I tried with
 the latest upstream kernel and it behaves the same. But both the drives
 detect fine if I enter the mvsas BIOS during bootup. So I have hooked up a
 SATA analyzer and this is what I found
 - When I tried to detect the drives in the mvsas BIOS, all the ATA
 commands that the bios issues have the port multiplier byte set to 0.
 - If I bootup my Linux system and then connect the drives, the first
 IDENTIFY command has the port multiplier set to 0 (this one is successful)
 and the subsequent IDENTIFY command has port multiplier set to 1 (this one
 fails).

I assume the first IDENTIFY is coming from the BIOS, not Linux correct?

 - If I connect any other SATA drives I have to the HBA, all the ATA
 commands have port multiplier set to 1 but they detects and work fine.

 Just to rule out the port-multiplier possibility I changed the following
 line in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c - fucntion sas_ata_qc_issue()

 ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

 to

 ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 0, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

 now all my drives seem to detect just fine. I believe, the eSATA interface
 on these external drives is a port multiplier, which is why the command
 fails. Also, the normal drives ignore this field thats why they work fine
 with port multiplier being set to either 0 or 1.

 Question(s): Are my above assumtions correct? If so, what is the reasoning
 behind setting the port multiplier to 1 by default in libsas layer?

 Thanks,
 Praveen



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eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

2013-10-14 Thread Praveen Murali

Hi,
  I have couple of external drives (Western Digital and Seagate) that 
have an eSATA interface. My Linux box with a Marvell HBA (9445) running 
Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.48 kernel doest not seem to detect the drive. I 
tried with the latest upstream kernel and it behaves the same. But both 
the drives detect fine if I enter the mvsas BIOS during bootup. So I 
have hooked up a SATA analyzer and this is what I found
- When I tried to detect the drives in the mvsas BIOS, all the ATA 
commands that the bios issues have the port multiplier byte set to 0.
- If I bootup my Linux system and then connect the drives, the first 
IDENTIFY command has the port multiplier set to 0 (this one is 
successful) and the subsequent IDENTIFY command has port multiplier set 
to 1 (this one fails).
- If I connect any other SATA drives I have to the HBA, all the ATA 
commands have port multiplier set to 1 but they detects and work fine.


Just to rule out the port-multiplier possibility I changed the following 
line in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c - fucntion sas_ata_qc_issue()


ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 1, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

to

ata_tf_to_fis(qc-tf, 0, 0, (u8*)task-ata_task.fis);

now all my drives seem to detect just fine. I believe, the eSATA 
interface on these external drives is a port multiplier, which is why 
the command fails. Also, the normal drives ignore this field thats why 
they work fine with port multiplier being set to either 0 or 1.


Question(s): Are my above assumtions correct? If so, what is the 
reasoning behind setting the port multiplier to 1 by default in libsas 
layer?


Thanks,
Praveen



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