zfcp: auto port scan resiliency

This patch improves the Fibre Channel port scan behaviour of the zfcp lldd.
Without it the zfcp device driver may churn up the storage area network by
excessive scann

zfcp: auto port scan resiliency

This patch improves the Fibre Channel port scan behaviour of the zfcp lldd.
Without it the zfcp device driver may churn up the storage area network by
excessive scanning and scan bursts, particularly in big virtual server
environments, potentially resulting in interference of virtual servers and
reduced availability of storage connectivity.

The two main issues as to the zfcp device drivers automatic port scan in
virtual server environments are frequency and simultaneity.
On the one hand, there is no point in allowing lots of ports scans
in a row. It makes sense, though, to make sure that a scan is conducted
eventually if there has been any indication for potential SAN changes.
On the other hand, lots of virtual servers receiving the same indication
for a SAN change had better not attempt to conduct a scan instantly,
that is, at the same time.

Hence this patch has a two-fold approach for better port scanning:
the introduction of a rate limit to amend frequency issues, and the
introduction of a short random backoff to amend simultaneity issues.
Both approaches boil down to deferred port scans, with delays
comprising parts for both approaches.

The new port scan behaviour is summarised best by:

NEW: NEW:
no_auto_port_rescan random rate flush
backoff limit =wait

adapter resume/thaw yes yes no yes*
adapter online (user) no yes no yes*
port rescan (user) no no no yes
adapter recovery (user) yes yes yes no
adapter recovery (other) yes yes yes no
incoming ELS yes yes yes no
incoming ELS lost yes yes yes no

Implementation is straight-forward by converting an existing worker to
a delayed worker. But care is needed whenever that worker is going to be
flushed (in order to make sure work has been completed), since a flush
operation cancels the timer set up for deferred execution (see * above).

There is a small race window whenever a port scan work starts
running up to the point in time of storing the time stamp for that port
scan. The impact is negligible. Closing that gap isn't trivial, though, and
would the destroy the beauty of a simple work-to-delayed-work conversion.

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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zfcp: bring back unit sysfs attributes for automatic LUN scan

Through sysfs attributes, zfcp unit objects
provide a trigger for manual LUN recovery
and export information for problem determination.

zfcp: bring back unit sysfs attributes for automatic LUN scan

Through sysfs attributes, zfcp unit objects
provide a trigger for manual LUN recovery
and export information for problem determination.

With commit
f8210e34887e1feb977a9b6b8caa086855af40c9
"[SCSI] zfcp: Allow midlayer to scan for LUNs when running in NPIV mode"
and when attaching SCSI devices through this new optional method,
no more zfcp unit objects are allocated for such SCSI devices.
Hence, the above-mentioned trigger and information were missing.

The information and context is located in SCSI transport device data since
b62a8d9b45b971a67a0f8413338c230e3117dff5
"[SCSI] zfcp: Use SCSI device data zfcp_scsi_dev instead of zfcp_unit"
57c237731b92fadc7d44824276313ec330b1989b
"[SCSI] zfcp: Add zfcp private struct as SCSI device driver data"
Hence, introduce the trigger and the information unconditionally
for all SCSI devices attached through zfcp.

We prefix the attribute names with 'zfcp_' to prevent collisions and
to avoid mix-ups such as with the common 'state' attribute.

Since some of the new attribute views do not need zfcp_port
in the ZFCP_DEFINE_SCSI_ATTR helper macro, remove zfcp_port
to avoid compiler warnings on unused variable.
It's easy to open code the conversion from zfcp_scsi_dev to zfcp_port
for the two already existing attributes hba_id and wwpn.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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zfcp: remove access control tables interface (port leftovers)

This patch removes some leftovers for commit
663e0890e31cb85f0cca5ac1faaee0d2d52880b5
"[SCSI] zfcp: remove access control tables interfa

zfcp: remove access control tables interface (port leftovers)

This patch removes some leftovers for commit
663e0890e31cb85f0cca5ac1faaee0d2d52880b5
"[SCSI] zfcp: remove access control tables interface".

The "access denied" case for ports is gone, as well.
The corresponding flag was cleared, but never set.
So clean it up.

Sysfs flag is kept, though, for backward-compatibility.
Now it returns always 0.

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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Merge tag 'v3.12'

Linux 3.12

Merge tag 'v3.12'

Linux 3.12

Conflicts:
fs/exec.c

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Merge first round of changes for 3.13 merge window.

Merge tag 'v3.12'

Linux 3.12

Merge tag 'v3.12-rc4' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in changes to input subsystem that were
committed through other trees.

Merge tag 'v3.12-rc3' into irq/core

Merge Linux v3.12-rc3, to refresh the tree from a v3.11 base to a v3.12 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth

Conflicts:
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c

Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/timers/core' into fordlezcano/3.13/sched-clock64-conversion

Update to tip/timers/core and resolve minor conflict.

Conflicts:
drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer

Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/timers/core' into fordlezcano/3.13/sched-clock64-conversion

Update to tip/timers/core and resolve minor conflict.

Conflicts:
drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

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Merge tag 'v3.12-rc2' into patchwork

Linux 3.12-rc2

* tag 'v3.12-rc2': (10774 commits)
Linux 3.12-rc2
cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments
block: Add nr_bios to bloc

Merge tag 'v3.12-rc2' into patchwork

Linux 3.12-rc2

* tag 'v3.12-rc2': (10774 commits)
Linux 3.12-rc2
cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments
block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint
Btrfs: create the uuid tree on remount rw
btrfs: change extent-same to copy entire argument struct
Btrfs: dir_inode_operations should use btrfs_update_time also
btrfs: Add btrfs: prefix to kernel log output
btrfs: refuse to remount read-write after abort
Btrfs: btrfs_ioctl_default_subvol: Revert back to toplevel subvolume when arg is 0
Btrfs: don't leak transaction in btrfs_sync_file()
Btrfs: add the missing mutex unlock in write_all_supers()
Btrfs: iput inode on allocation failure
Btrfs: remove space_info->reservation_progress
Btrfs: kill delay_iput arg to the wait_ordered functions
Btrfs: fix worst case calculator for space usage
Revert "Btrfs: rework the overcommit logic to be based on the total size"
Btrfs: improve replacing nocow extents
Btrfs: drop dir i_size when adding new names on replay
Btrfs: replay dir_index items before other items
Btrfs: check roots last log commit when checking if an inode has been logged
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Merge tag 'v3.12-rc2' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge Linux 3.12-rc2 to prep for a bunch of -next patches:
- Header cleanup in intel_drv.h, both changed in -fixes and my current
-next pile.
- Cursor

Merge tag 'v3.12-rc2' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge Linux 3.12-rc2 to prep for a bunch of -next patches:
- Header cleanup in intel_drv.h, both changed in -fixes and my current
-next pile.
- Cursor handling cleanup for -next which depends upon the cursor
handling fix merged into -rc2.

All just trivial conflicts of the "changed adjacent lines" type:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

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Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Merge tag 'v3.11' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in sync changes to cyttsp4 driver.

Merge tag 'v3.11-rc7' into stable/for-linus-3.12

Linux 3.11-rc7

As we need the git commit 28817e9de4f039a1a8c1fe1df2fa2df524626b9e
Author: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Date: Tue Aug

Merge tag 'v3.11-rc7' into stable/for-linus-3.12

Linux 3.11-rc7

As we need the git commit 28817e9de4f039a1a8c1fe1df2fa2df524626b9e
Author: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Date: Tue Aug 6 15:12:19 2013 -0700

xen/smp: initialize IPI vectors before marking CPU online

* tag 'v3.11-rc7': (443 commits)
Linux 3.11-rc7
ARC: [lib] strchr breakage in Big-endian configuration
VFS: collect_mounts() should return an ERR_PTR
bfs: iget_locked() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
efs: iget_locked() doesn't return an ERR_PTR()
proc: kill the extra proc_readfd_common()->dir_emit_dots()
cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb
usb: phy: fix build breakage
USB: OHCI: add missing PCI PM callbacks to ohci-pci.c
staging: comedi: bug-fix NULL pointer dereference on failed attach
lib/lz4: correct the LZ4 license
memcg: get rid of swapaccount leftovers
nilfs2: fix issue with counting number of bio requests for BIO_EOPNOTSUPP error detection
nilfs2: remove double bio_put() in nilfs_end_bio_write() for BIO_EOPNOTSUPP error
drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c: initialise earlier
ipv4: expose IPV4_DEVCONF
ipv6: handle Redirect ICMP Message with no Redirected Header option
be2net: fix disabling TX in be_close()
Revert "ACPI / video: Always call acpi_video_init_brightness() on init"
Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
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Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

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Merge tag 'fscache-fixes-for-ceph' into wip-fscache

Patches for Ceph FS-Cache support

Merge tag 'v3.11' into for_next

Update Xtensa tree to Linux 3.11 (merging)

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
net/bridge/br_multicast.c
net/ipv6/sit.c

The conflicts were minor:

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
net/bridge/br_multicast.c
net/ipv6/sit.c

The conflicts were minor:

1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature.

2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using
msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function
with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters.

3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated
and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property,
and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made. The latter of
which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into next-merge

Merge branch 'master' into for-3.12/upstream

Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixup patch on top
of 9d9a04ee75 ("HID: apple: Add support for the 2013 Macbook Air")

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosi

Merge branch 'master' into for-3.12/upstream

Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixup patch on top
of 9d9a04ee75 ("HID: apple: Add support for the 2013 Macbook Air")

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This patch set is a set of driver updates (ufs, zfcp, lpfc,

Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This patch set is a set of driver updates (ufs, zfcp, lpfc, mpt2/3sas,
qla4xxx, qla2xxx [adding support for ISP8044 + other things]).

We also have a new driver: esas2r which has a number of static checker
problems, but which I expect to resolve over the -rc course of 3.12
under the new driver exception.

We also have the error return that were discussed at LSF"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (118 commits)
[SCSI] sg: push file descriptor list locking down to per-device locking
[SCSI] sg: checking sdp->detached isn't protected when open
[SCSI] sg: no need sg_open_exclusive_lock
[SCSI] sg: use rwsem to solve race during exclusive open
[SCSI] scsi_debug: fix logical block provisioning support when unmap_alignment != 0
[SCSI] scsi_debug: fix endianness bug in sdebug_build_parts()
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update the driver version to 8.06.00.08-k.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: print MAC via %pMR.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correction to message ids.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correctly print out/in mailbox registers.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add a new interface to update versions.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Move queue depth ramp down message to i/o debug level.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Select link initialization option bits from current operating mode.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add loopback IDC-TIME-EXTEND aen handling support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Set default critical temperature value in cases when ISPFX00 firmware doesn't provide it
[SCSI] qla2xxx: QLAFX00 make over temperature AEN handling informational, add log for normal temperature AEN
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct Interrupt Register offset for ISPFX00
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove handling of Shutdown Requested AEN from qlafx00_process_aen().
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Send all AENs for ISPFx00 to above layers.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add changes in initialization for ISPFX00 cards with BIOS
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[SCSI] zfcp: cleanup use of obsolete strict_strto* functions

strict_strtoul and friends are obsolete. Use kstrtoul functions
instead.

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sig

[SCSI] zfcp: cleanup use of obsolete strict_strto* functions

strict_strtoul and friends are obsolete. Use kstrtoul functions
instead.

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mpeschke@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>

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Merge branch 'drm-next-3.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next

Alex writes:
This is the radeon drm-next request. Big changes include:
- support for dpm on CIK parts
- suppo

Merge branch 'drm-next-3.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next

Alex writes:
This is the radeon drm-next request. Big changes include:
- support for dpm on CIK parts
- support for ASPM on CIK parts
- support for berlin GPUs
- major ring handling cleanup
- remove the old 3D blit code for bo moves in favor of CP DMA or sDMA
- lots of bug fixes

[airlied: fix up a bunch of conflicts from drm_order removal]

* 'drm-next-3.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux: (898 commits)
drm/radeon/dpm: make sure dc performance level limits are valid (CI)
drm/radeon/dpm: make sure dc performance level limits are valid (BTC-SI) (v2)
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for extended dpm tables
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for kb/kv dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for ci dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for si dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for ni dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for trinity dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for sumo dpm
drm/radeonn: gcc fixes for rv7xx/eg/btc dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for rv6xx dpm
drm/radeon: gcc fixes for radeon_atombios.c
drm/radeon: enable UVD interrupts on CIK
drm/radeon: fix init ordering for r600+
drm/radeon/dpm: only need to reprogram uvd if uvd pg is enabled
drm/radeon: check the return value of uvd_v1_0_start in uvd_v1_0_init
drm/radeon: split out radeon_uvd_resume from uvd_v4_2_resume
radeon kms: fix uninitialised hotplug work usage in r100_irq_process()
drm/radeon/audio: set up the sads on DCE3.2 asics
drm/radeon: fix handling of variable sized arrays for router objects
...

Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_dmabuf.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/ni.c
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c

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Merge tag 'asoc-v3.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-next

ASoC: Updates for v3.12

A few more updates for v3.12, mostly small cleanups plus the addition o

Merge tag 'asoc-v3.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-next

ASoC: Updates for v3.12

A few more updates for v3.12, mostly small cleanups plus the addition of
the DT bindings for kirkwood and the new i.MX S/PDIF driver.

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