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authorJohn Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>2019-01-05 00:01:28 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-12-05 15:27:08 +0100
commita51e77dc47362ecad623bdab6add43b216f15ffa (patch)
treedd0e41148652388c138a1d3c2976dedf3b4bd1c7 /certs
parent8fe9970acd224e3f1dede7255ef4cc5c7ca68878 (diff)
scsi: libsas: Support SATA PHY connection rate unmatch fixing during discovery
[ Upstream commit cec9771d2e954650095aa37a6a97722c8194e7d2 ] +----------+ +----------+ | | | | | |--- 3.0 G ---| |--- 6.0 G --- SAS disk | | | | | |--- 3.0 G ---| |--- 6.0 G --- SAS disk |initiator | | | | device |--- 3.0 G ---| Expander |--- 6.0 G --- SAS disk | | | | | |--- 3.0 G ---| |--- 6.0 G --- SATA disk -->failed to connect | | | | | | | |--- 6.0 G --- SATA disk -->failed to connect | | | | +----------+ +----------+ According to Serial Attached SCSI - 1.1 (SAS-1.1): If an expander PHY attached to a SATA PHY is using a physical link rate greater than the maximum connection rate supported by the pathway from an STP initiator port, a management application client should use the SMP PHY CONTROL function (see 10.4.3.10) to set the PROGRAMMED MAXIMUM PHYSICAL LINK RATE field of the expander PHY to the maximum connection rate supported by the pathway from that STP initiator port. Currently libsas does not support checking if this condition occurs, nor rectifying when it does. Such a condition is not at all common, however it has been seen on some pre-silicon environments where the initiator PHY only supports a 1.5 Gbit maximum linkrate, mated with 12G expander PHYs and 3/6G SATA phy. This patch adds support for checking and rectifying this condition during initial device discovery only. We do support checking min pathway connection rate during revalidation phase, when new devices can be detected in the topology. However we do not support in the case of the the user reprogramming PHY linkrates, such that min pathway condition is not met/maintained. A note on root port PHY rates: The libsas root port PHY rates calculation is broken. Libsas sets the rates (min, max, and current linkrate) of a root port to the same linkrate of the first PHY member of that same port. In doing so, it assumes that all other PHYs which subsequently join the port to have the same negotiated linkrate, when they could actually be different. In practice this doesn't happen, as initiator and expander PHYs are normally initialised with consistent min/max linkrates. This has not caused an issue so far, so leave alone for now. Tested-by: Jian Luo <luojian5@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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