Re: [PATCH v2] libsas: Don't give scsi_cmnds to the EH if they never made it to the SAS LLDD or have already returned

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 22:58 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On a system with many SAS targets, it appears possible that a scsi_cmnd
> can time out without ever making it to the SAS LLDD or at the same time
> that a completion is occurring.  In both of these cases, telling the
> LLDD to abort the sas_task makes no sense because the LLDD won't know
> about the sas_task; what we really want to do is to increase the timer.
> Note that this involves creating another sas_task bit to indicate
> whether or not the task has been sent to the LLDD; I could have
> implemented this by slightly redefining SAS_TASK_STATE_PENDING, but
> this way seems cleaner.
> 
> This second version amends the aic94xx portion to set the
> TASK_AT_INITIATOR flag for all sas_tasks that were passed to
> lldd_execute_task.

Actually, this patch causes my ATAPI device not to appear initially.  It
looks like the libata IDENTIFY is failing.  It seems to be a problem
with the initial reset the device needs to get the D2H FIS.  This is
what I see:

sas: sas_ata_phy_reset: Found ATAPI device.
ata1.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/66
aic94xx: escb_tasklet_complete: phy5: BYTES_DMAED
aic94xx: STP proto device-to-host FIS:
aic94xx: 00: 34 00 50 01
aic94xx: 04: 01 00 00 00
aic94xx: 08: 01 00 00 00
aic94xx: 0c: 01 00 00 00
aic94xx: 10: 00 00 00 00
aic94xx: asd_form_port: updating phy_mask 0x20 for phy5
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
sas: sas_ata_post_internal: Failure; reset phy!
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
sas: STUB sas_ata_scr_read
ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/44
sas: sas_ata_phy_reset: Found ATAPI device.
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
sas: sas_ata_post_internal: Failure; reset phy!
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
sas: STUB sas_ata_scr_read
sas: sas_ata_phy_reset: Found ATAPI device.


James