This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: core: alua: I/O errors for ALUA state transitions
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
scsi-core-alua-i-o-errors-for-alua-state-transitions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5fe88021f3ab81528e0acb4e99c8e0ea11547e0f
Author: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 14 16:03:44 2024 +0200
scsi: core: alua: I/O errors for ALUA state transitions
[ Upstream commit 10157b1fc1a762293381e9145041253420dfc6ad ]
When a host is configured with a few LUNs and I/O is running, injecting FC
faults repeatedly leads to path recovery problems. The LUNs have 4 paths
each and 3 of them come back active after say an FC fault which makes 2 of
the paths go down, instead of all 4. This happens after several iterations
of continuous FC faults.
Reason here is that we're returning an I/O error whenever we're
encountering sense code 06/04/0a (LOGICAL UNIT NOT ACCESSIBLE, ASYMMETRIC
ACCESS STATE TRANSITION) instead of retrying.
[mwilck: The original patch was developed by Rajashekhar M A and Hannes
Reinecke. I moved the code to alua_check_sense() as suggested by Mike
Christie [1]. Evan Milne had raised the question whether pg->state should
be set to transitioning in the UA case [2]. I believe that doing this is
correct. SCSI_ACCESS_STATE_TRANSITIONING by itself doesn't cause I/O
errors. Our handler schedules an RTPG, which will only result in an I/O
error condition if the transitioning timeout expires.]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0bc96e82-fdda-4187-148d-5b34f81d4942@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGtn9r=kicnTDE2o7Gt5Y=yoidHYD7tG8XdMHEBJTBraVEoOCw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Co-developed-by: Rajashekhar M A <rajs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240514140344.19538-1-mwilck@xxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
index 0781f991e7845..f5fc8631883d5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
@@ -406,28 +406,40 @@ static char print_alua_state(unsigned char state)
}
}
-static enum scsi_disposition alua_check_sense(struct scsi_device *sdev,
- struct scsi_sense_hdr *sense_hdr)
+static void alua_handle_state_transition(struct scsi_device *sdev)
{
struct alua_dh_data *h = sdev->handler_data;
struct alua_port_group *pg;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ pg = rcu_dereference(h->pg);
+ if (pg)
+ pg->state = SCSI_ACCESS_STATE_TRANSITIONING;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ alua_check(sdev, false);
+}
+
+static enum scsi_disposition alua_check_sense(struct scsi_device *sdev,
+ struct scsi_sense_hdr *sense_hdr)
+{
switch (sense_hdr->sense_key) {
case NOT_READY:
if (sense_hdr->asc == 0x04 && sense_hdr->ascq == 0x0a) {
/*
* LUN Not Accessible - ALUA state transition
*/
- rcu_read_lock();
- pg = rcu_dereference(h->pg);
- if (pg)
- pg->state = SCSI_ACCESS_STATE_TRANSITIONING;
- rcu_read_unlock();
- alua_check(sdev, false);
+ alua_handle_state_transition(sdev);
return NEEDS_RETRY;
}
break;
case UNIT_ATTENTION:
+ if (sense_hdr->asc == 0x04 && sense_hdr->ascq == 0x0a) {
+ /*
+ * LUN Not Accessible - ALUA state transition
+ */
+ alua_handle_state_transition(sdev);
+ return NEEDS_RETRY;
+ }
if (sense_hdr->asc == 0x29 && sense_hdr->ascq == 0x00) {
/*
* Power On, Reset, or Bus Device Reset.
@@ -494,7 +506,8 @@ static int alua_tur(struct scsi_device *sdev)
retval = scsi_test_unit_ready(sdev, ALUA_FAILOVER_TIMEOUT * HZ,
ALUA_FAILOVER_RETRIES, &sense_hdr);
- if (sense_hdr.sense_key == NOT_READY &&
+ if ((sense_hdr.sense_key == NOT_READY ||
+ sense_hdr.sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION) &&
sense_hdr.asc == 0x04 && sense_hdr.ascq == 0x0a)
return SCSI_DH_RETRY;
else if (retval)
