This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
lpfc: Add iotag memory barrier
to the 3.10-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:
lpfc-add-iotag-memory-barrier.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 27f344eb15dd0da80ebec80c7245e8c85043f841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 17:16:46 -0400
Subject: lpfc: Add iotag memory barrier
From: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 27f344eb15dd0da80ebec80c7245e8c85043f841 upstream.
Add a memory barrier to ensure the valid bit is read before
any of the cqe payload is read. This fixes an issue seen
on Power where the cqe payload was getting loaded before
the valid bit. When this occurred, we saw an iotag out of
range error when a command completed, but since the iotag
looked invalid the command didn't get completed to scsi core.
Later we hit the command timeout, attempted to abort the command,
then waited for the aborted command to get returned. Since the
adapter already returned the command, we timeout waiting,
and end up escalating EEH all the way to host reset. This
patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
@@ -263,6 +263,16 @@ lpfc_sli4_eq_get(struct lpfc_queue *q)
return NULL;
q->hba_index = idx;
+
+ /*
+ * insert barrier for instruction interlock : data from the hardware
+ * must have the valid bit checked before it can be copied and acted
+ * upon. Given what was seen in lpfc_sli4_cq_get() of speculative
+ * instructions allowing action on content before valid bit checked,
+ * add barrier here as well. May not be needed as "content" is a
+ * single 32-bit entity here (vs multi word structure for cq's).
+ */
+ mb();
return eqe;
}
@@ -368,6 +378,17 @@ lpfc_sli4_cq_get(struct lpfc_queue *q)
cqe = q->qe[q->hba_index].cqe;
q->hba_index = idx;
+
+ /*
+ * insert barrier for instruction interlock : data from the hardware
+ * must have the valid bit checked before it can be copied and acted
+ * upon. Speculative instructions were allowing a bcopy at the start
+ * of lpfc_sli4_fp_handle_wcqe(), which is called immediately
+ * after our return, to copy data before the valid bit check above
+ * was done. As such, some of the copied data was stale. The barrier
+ * ensures the check is before any data is copied.
+ */
+ mb();
return cqe;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/lpfc-add-iotag-memory-barrier.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html