sa(4) driver changes available for test

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Sat Feb 28 16:48:04 UTC 2015


> On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have updated the patches.
> 
> I have removed the XPT_DEV_ADVINFO changes from the patches to head, since
> I committed those separately.
> 
> I have (hopefully) fixed the build for the stable/10 patches by MFCing
> dependencies.  (One of them mav did for me, thanks!)
> 
> Rough draft commit message:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes_commitmsg.20150218.1.txt
> 
> The patches against FreeBSD/head as of SVN revision 278975:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes.20150218.1.txt
> 
> And (untested) patches against FreeBSD stable/10 as of SVN revision 278974:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes.stable_10.20150218.1.txt

Not sure what I've done wrong here.

I've applied your patches and run make buildworld against:

[root at cuppy:/usr/src] # svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src
URL: https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/base/stable/10
Relative URL: ^/stable/10
Repository Root: https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/base
Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
Revision: 278721
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: ngie
Last Changed Rev: 278721
Last Changed Date: 2015-02-13 21:46:22 +0000 (Fri, 13 Feb 2015)

But I get:

rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
===> lib/libmp (cleandir)
rm -f Version.map libmp.3.gz libmp.3.cat.gz
rm -f a.out mpasbn.o mpasbn.o.tmp 
rm -f mpasbn.po  mpasbn.po.tmp
rm -f mpasbn.So mpasbn.so mpasbn.So.tmp
rm -f libmp.so
rm -f libmp.a libmp_p.a libmp.so.7
rm -f Version.map
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
===> lib/libmt (cleandir)
cd: /usr/src/lib/libmt: No such file or directory
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make[3]: stopped in /usr/src/lib
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /usr/src
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/src
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/src


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 17:32:32 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>> 
>> I have a fairly large set of changes to the sa(4) driver and mt(1) driver
>> that I'm planning to commit in the near future.
>> 
>> A description of the changes is here and below in this message.
>> 
>> If you have tape hardware and the inclination, I'd appreciate testing and
>> feedback.
>> 
>> ============
>> Rough draft commit message:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes_commitmsg.20150213.3.txt
>> 
>> The patches against FreeBSD/head as of SVN revision 278706:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes.20150213.3.txt
>> 
>> And (untested) patches against FreeBSD stable/10 as of SVN revision 278721.
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes.stable_10.20150213.3.txt
>> ============
>> 
>> The intent is to get the tape infrastructure more up to date, so we can
>> support LTFS and more modern tape drives:
>> 
>> http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ltfs/
>> 
>> I have ported IBM's LTFS Single Drive Edition to FreeBSD.  The port depends
>> on the patches linked above.  It isn't fully cleaned up and ready for
>> redistribution.  If you're interested, though, let me know and I'll tell
>> you when it is ready to go out.  You need an IBM LTO-5, LTO-6, TS1140 or
>> TS1150 tape drive.  HP drives aren't supported by IBM's LTFS, and older
>> drives don't have the necessary features to support LTFS.
>> 
>> The commit message below outlines most of the changes.
>> 
>> A few comments:
>> 
>> 1. I'm planning to commit the XPT_DEV_ADVINFO changes separately.
>> 
>> 2. The XML output is similar to what GEOM and CTL do.  It would be nice to
>>   figure out how to put a standard schema on it so that standard tools
>>   could read it.  I don't know how feasible that is, since I haven't
>>   time to dig into it.  If anyone has suggestions on whether that is
>>   feasible or advisable, I'd appreciate feedback.
>> 
>> 3. I have tested with a reasonable amount of tape hardware (see below for a
>>   list), but more testing and feedback would be good.
>> 
>> 4. Standard 'mt status' output looks like this:
>> 
>> # mt -f /dev/nsa3 status  -v
>> Drive: sa3: <IBM ULTRIUM-HH6 E4J1> Serial Number: 101500520A
>> ---------------------------------
>> Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
>> Current:  0x5a:LTO-6           variable       384607   enabled (0xff)
>> ---------------------------------
>> Current Driver State: at rest.
>> ---------------------------------
>> Partition:   0      Calc File Number:   0     Calc Record Number: 0
>> Residual:    0  Reported File Number:   0 Reported Record Number: 0
>> Flags: BOP
>> 
>> 5. 'mt status -v' looks like this:
>> 
>> # mt -f /dev/nsa3 status  -v
>> Drive: sa3: <IBM ULTRIUM-HH6 E4J1> Serial Number: 101500520A
>> ---------------------------------
>> Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
>> Current:  0x5a:LTO-6           variable       384607   enabled (0xff)
>> ---------------------------------
>> Current Driver State: at rest.
>> ---------------------------------
>> Partition:   0      Calc File Number:   0     Calc Record Number: 0
>> Residual:    0  Reported File Number:   0 Reported Record Number: 0
>> Flags: BOP
>> ---------------------------------
>> Tape I/O parameters:
>>  Maximum I/O size allowed by driver and controller (maxio): 1081344 bytes
>>  Maximum I/O size reported by controller (cpi_maxio): 5197824 bytes
>>  Maximum block size supported by tape drive and media (max_blk): 8388608 bytes
>>  Minimum block size supported by tape drive and media (min_blk): 1 bytes
>>  Block granularity supported by tape drive and media (blk_gran): 0 bytes
>>  Maximum possible I/O size (max_effective_iosize): 1081344 bytes
>> 
>> 6. Existing applications should work without changes.  If not, please let
>>   me know.  Hopefully they will move over time to the new interfaces.
>> 
>> 7. There are lots of additional features that could be added later.
>>   Append-only support, encryption, more log pages, etc.
>> 
>> 8. I have SCSI READ ATTRIBUTE changes for camcontrol(8) that will go in
>>   separately.  These changes allow displaying the contents of the MAM
>>   (Medium Auxiliary Memory) chips on LTO, TS and other modern tape drives.
>>   These are good, and a future possible direction is adding attributes 
>>   to the status XML from the sa(4) driver.
>> 
>> ============
>> Significant upgrades to sa(4) and mt(1).
>> 
>> The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's
>> tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the
>> features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS.
>> 
>> Significant changes and new features include:
>> 
>> o sa(4) driver status and parameter information is now exported via an
>>   XML structure.  This will allow for changes and improvements later
>>   on that will not break userland applications.  The old MTIOCGET
>>   status ioctl remains, so applications using the existing interface
>>   will not break.
>> 
>> o 'mt status' now reports drive-reported tape position information
>>   as well as the previously available calculated tape position
>>   information.  These numbers will be different at times, because
>>   the drive-reported block numbers are relative to BOP (Beginning
>>   of Partition), but the block numbers calculated previously via
>>   sa(4) (and still provided) are relative to the last filemark.
>>   Both numbers are now provided.  'mt status' now also shows the
>>   drive INQUIRY information, serial number and any position flags
>>   (BOP, EOT, etc.) provided with the tape position information.
>>   'mt status -v' adds information on the maximum possible I/O size,
>>   and the underlying values used to calculate it.
>> 
>> o The extra sa(4) /dev entries (/dev/saN.[0-3]) have been removed.
>> 
>>   The extra devices were originally added as place holders for
>>   density-specific device nodes.  Some OSes (NetBSD, NetApp's OnTap
>>   and Solaris) have had device nodes that, when you write to them,
>>   will automatically select a given density for particular tape drives.
>> 
>>   This is a convenient way of switching densities, but it was never
>>   implemented in FreeBSD.  Only the device nodes were there, and that
>>   sometimes confused users.
>> 
>>   For modern tape devices, the density is generally not selectable
>>   (e.g. with LTO) or defaults to the highest availble density when
>>   the tape is rewritten from BOT (e.g. TS11X0).  So, for most users,
>>   density selection won't be necessary.  If they do need to select
>>   the density, it is easy enough to use 'mt density' to change it.
>> 
>> o Protection information is now supported.  This is either a
>>   Reed-Solomon CRC or CRC32 that is included at the end of each block
>>   read and written.  On write, the tape drive verifies the CRC, and
>>   on read, the tape drive provides a CRC for the userland application
>>   to verify.
>> 
>> o New, extensible tape driver parameter get/set interface.
>> 
>> o Density reporting information.  For drives that support it,
>>   'mt getdensity' will show detailed information on what formats the
>>   tape drive supports, and what formats the tape drive supports.
>> 
>> o Some mt(1) functionality moved into a new mt(3) library so that
>>   external applications can reuse the code.
>> 
>> o The new mt(3) library includes helper routines to aid in parsing
>>   the XML output of the sa(4) driver, and build a tree of driver
>>   metadata.
>> 
>> o Support for the MTLOAD (load a tape in the drive) and MTWEOFI
>>   (write filemark immediate) ioctls needed by IBM's LTFS
>>   implementation.
>> 
>> o Improve device departure behavior for the sa(4) driver.  The previous
>>   implementation led to hangs when the device was open.
>> 
>> o This has been tested on the following types of drives:
>> 	IBM TS1150
>> 	IBM TS1140
>> 	IBM LTO-6
>> 	IBM LTO-5
>> 	HP LTO-2
>> 	Seagate DDS-4
>> 	Quantum DLT-4000
>> 	Exabyte 8505
>> 	Sony DDS-2
>> 
>> contrib/groff/tmac/doc-syms,
>> share/mk/bsd.libnames.mk,
>> lib/Makefile,
>> 	Add libmt.
>> 
>> lib/libmt/Makefile,
>> lib/libmt/mt.3,
>> lib/libmt/mtlib.c,
>> lib/libmt/mtlib.h,
>> 	New mt(3) library that contains functions moved from mt(1) and
>> 	new functions needed to interact with the updated sa(4) driver.
>> 
>> 	This includes XML parser helper functions that application writers
>> 	can use when writing code to query tape parameters.
>> 
>> rescue/rescue/Makefile:
>> 	Add -lmt to CRUNCH_LIBS.
>> 
>> sys/cam/cam_ccb.h
>> 	Add a new flag value for the XPT_DEV_ADVINFO CCB, CDAI_FLAG_NONE.
>> 
>> sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c,
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c,
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_enc_ses.c,
>> sys/dev/mps/mps_sas.c:
>> 	Make sure the flags for the XPT_DEV_ADVINFO CCB are set correctly.
>> 	This prevents unintended attempts to set advanced information
>> 	values when XPT_DEV_ADVINFO CCBs are not pre-zeroed.
>> 
>> src/share/man/man4/mtio.4
>> 	Clarify this man page a bit, and since it contains what is
>> 	essentially the mtio.h header file, add new ioctls and structure
>> 	definitions from mtio.h.
>> 
>> src/share/man/man4/sa.4
>> 	Update BUGS and maintainer section.
>> 
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c,
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
>> 	Add SCSI SECURITY PROTOCOL IN/OUT CDB definitions and CDB building
>> 	functions.
>> 
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.c
>> sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.h
>> 	Many tape driver changes, largely outlined above.
>> 
>> 	Increase the sa(4) driver read/write timeout from 4 to 32
>> 	minutes.  This is based on the recommended values for IBM LTO
>> 	5/6 drives.  This may also avoid timeouts for other tape
>> 	hardware that can take a long time to do retries and error
>> 	recovery.  Longer term, a better way to handle this is to ask
>> 	the drive for recommended timeout values using the REPORT
>> 	SUPPORTED OPCODES command.  Modern IBM and Oracle tape drives
>> 	at least support that command, and it would allow for more
>> 	accurate timeout values.
>> 
>> 	Add XML status generation.  This is done with a series of
>> 	macros to eliminate as much duplicate code as possible.  The
>> 	new XML-based status values are reported through the new
>> 	MTIOCEXTGET ioctl.
>> 
>> 	Add XML driver parameter reporting, using the new MTIOCPARAMGET
>> 	ioctl.
>> 
>> 	Add a new driver parameter setting interface, using the new
>> 	MTIOCPARAMSET and MTIOCSETLIST ioctls.
>> 
>> 	Add a new MTIOCRBLIM ioctl to get block limits information.
>> 
>> 	Add CCB/CDB building routines scsi_locate_16, scsi_locate_10,
>> 	and scsi_read_position_10().
>> 
>> 	scsi_locate_10 implements the LOCATE command, as does the
>> 	existing scsi_set_position() command.  It just supports
>> 	additional arguments and features.  If/when we figure out a
>> 	good way to provide backward compatibility for older
>> 	applications using the old function API, we can just revamp
>> 	scsi_set_position().  The same goes for
>> 	scsi_read_position_10() and the existing scsi_read_position()
>> 	function.
>> 
>> 	Revamp sasetpos() to take the new mtlocate structure as an
>> 	argument.  It now will use either scsi_locate_10() or
>> 	scsi_locate_16(), depending upon the arguments the user
>> 	supplies.  As before, once we change position we don't have a
>> 	clear idea of what the current logical position of the tape
>> 	drive is.
>> 
>> 	For tape drives that support long form position data, we
>> 	read the current position and store that for later reporting
>> 	after changing the position.  This should help applications
>> 	like Bacula speed tape access under FreeBSD once they are
>> 	modified to support the new ioctls.
>> 
>> 	Add a new quirk, SA_QUIRK_NO_LONG_POS, that is set for all
>> 	drives that report SCSI-2 or older, as well as drives that
>> 	report an Illegal Request type error for READ POSITION with
>> 	the long format.  So we should automatically detect drives
>> 	that don't support the long form and stop asking for it after
>> 	an initial try.
>> 
>> 	Add a partition number to the sa(4) softc.
>> 
>> 	Improve device departure handling. The previous implementation
>> 	led to hangs when the device was open.
>> 
>> 	If an application had the sa(4) driver open, and attempted to
>> 	close it after it went away, the cam_periph_release() call in
>> 	saclose() would cause the periph to get destroyed because that
>> 	was the last reference to it.  Because destroy_dev() was
>> 	called from the sa(4) driver's cleanup routine (sacleanup()),
>> 	and would block waiting for the close to happen, a deadlock
>> 	would result.
>> 
>> 	So instead of calling destroy_dev() from the cleanup routine,
>> 	call destroy_dev_sched_cb() from saoninvalidate() and wait for
>> 	the callback.
>> 
>> 	Acquire a reference for devfs in saregister(), and release it
>> 	in the new sadevgonecb() routine when all devfs devices for	
>> 	the particular sa(4) driver instance are gone.
>> 
>> 	Add a new function, sasetupdev(), to centralize setting
>> 	per-instance devfs device parameters instead of repeating the
>> 	code in saregister().
>> 
>> 	Add an open count to the softc, so we know how many
>> 	peripheral driver references are a result of open
>>       	sessions.
>> 
>> 	Add the D_TRACKCLOSE flag to the cdevsw flags so
>> 	that we get a 1:1 mapping of open to close calls
>> 	instead of a N:1 mapping.
>> 
>> 	This should be a no-op for everything except the
>> 	control device, since we don't allow more than one
>> 	open on non-control devices.
>> 
>> 	However, since we do allow multiple opens on the
>> 	control device, the combination of the open count
>> 	and the D_TRACKCLOSE flag should result in an
>> 	accurate peripheral driver reference count, and an
>> 	accurate open count.
>> 
>> 	The accurate open count allows us to release all
>> 	peripheral driver references that are the result
>> 	of open contexts once we get the callback from devfs.
>> 
>> sys/sys/mtio.h:
>> 	Add a number of new mt(4) ioctls and the requisite data
>> 	structures.  None of the existing interfaces been removed
>> 	or changed.
>> 
>> 	This includes definitions for the following new ioctls:
>> 
>> 	MTIOCRBLIM      /* get block limits */
>> 	MTIOCEXTLOCATE	/* seek to position */
>> 	MTIOCEXTGET     /* get tape status */
>> 	MTIOCPARAMGET	/* get tape params */
>> 	MTIOCPARAMSET	/* set tape params */
>> 	MTIOCSETLIST	/* set N params */
>> 
>> usr.bin/mt/Makefile:
>> 	mt(1) now depends on libmt, libsbuf and libbsdxml.
>> 
>> usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
>> 	Document new mt(1) features and subcommands.
>> 
>> usr.bin/mt/mt.c:
>> 	Implement support for mt(1) subcommands that need to
>> 	use getopt(3) for their arguments.
>> 
>> 	Implement a new 'mt status' command to replace the old
>> 	'mt status' command.  The old status command has been
>> 	renamed 'ostatus'.
>> 
>> 	The new status function uses the MTIOCEXTGET ioctl, and
>> 	therefore parses the XML data to determine drive status.
>> 	The -x argument to 'mt status' allows the user to dump out
>> 	the raw XML reported by the kernel.
>> 
>> 	The new status display is mostly the same as the old status
>> 	display, except that it doesn't print the redundant density
>> 	mode information, and it does print the current partition
>> 	number and position flags.
>> 
>> 	Add a new command, 'mt locate', that will supersede the
>> 	old 'mt setspos' and 'mt sethpos' commands.  'mt locate'
>> 	implements all of the functionality of the MTIOCEXTLOCATE
>> 	ioctl, and allows the user to change the logical position
>> 	of the tape drive in a number of ways.  (Partition,
>> 	block number, file number, set mark number, end of data.)
>> 	The immediate bit and the explicit address bits are
>> 	implemented, but not documented in the man page.
>> 
>> 	Add a new 'mt weofi' command to use the new MTWEOFI ioctl.
>> 	This allows the user to ask the drive to write a filemark
>> 	without waiting around for the operation to complete.
>> 
>> 	Add a new 'mt getdensity' command that gets the XML-based
>> 	tape drive density report from the sa(4) driver and displays
>> 	it.  This uses the SCSI REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT command
>> 	to get comprehensive information from the tape drive about
>> 	what formats it is able to read and write.
>> 
>> 	Add a new 'mt protect' command that allows getting and setting
>> 	tape drive protection information.  The protection information
>> 	is a CRC tacked on to the end of every read/write from and to
>> 	the tape drive.
>> 
>> Sponsored by:	Spectra Logic
>> MFC after:	1 month
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ken
>> -- 
>> Kenneth Merry
>> ken at FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> ken at FreeBSD.ORG
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/







More information about the freebsd-scsi mailing list