Re: [PATCH v3] scsi: sd: Introduce manage_shutdown device flag

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On 10/26/23 11:07, Damien Le Moal wrote:
Commit aa3998dbeb3a ("ata: libata-scsi: Disable scsi device
manage_system_start_stop") change setting the manage_system_start_stop
flag to false for libata managed disks to enable libata internal
management of disk suspend/resume. However, a side effect of this change
is that on system shutdown, disks are no longer being stopped (set to
standby mode with the heads unloaded). While this is not a critical
issue, this unclean shutdown is not recommended and shows up with
increased smart counters (e.g. the unexpected power loss counter
"Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct").

Instead of defining a shutdown driver method for all ATA adapter
drivers (not all of them define that operation), this patch resolves
this issue by further refining the sd driver start/stop control of disks
using the new flag manage_shutdown. If this new flag is set to true by
a low level driver, the function sd_shutdown() will issue a
START STOP UNIT command with the start argument set to 0 when a disk
needs to be powered off (suspended) on system power off, that is, when
system_state is equal to SYSTEM_POWER_OFF.

Similarly to the other manage_xxx flags, the new manage_shutdown flag is
exposed through sysfs as a read-write device attribute.

To avoid any confusion between manage_shutdown and
manage_system_start_stop, the comments describing these flags in
include/scsi/scsi.h are also improved.

Fixes: aa3998dbeb3a ("ata: libata-scsi: Disable scsi device manage_system_start_stop")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218038
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cd397c88-bf53-4768-9ab8-9d107df9e613@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxx>
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Changes from v2:
  * Fixed typo in the comments added to include/scsi/scsi_device.h
  * Added Niklas's review tag
Changes from v1:
  * Improved flags description in include/scsi/scsi_device.h
  * Added missing sysfs export of manage_shutdown

  drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c  |  5 +++--
  drivers/firewire/sbp2.c    |  1 +
  drivers/scsi/sd.c          | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
  include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 20 +++++++++++++++++--
  4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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