Patch "scsi: ses: don't get power status of SES device slot on probe" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: ses: don't get power status of SES device slot on probe

to the 4.4-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-ses-don-t-get-power-status-of-ses-device-slot-on-probe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 12:18:19 -0300
Subject: scsi: ses: don't get power status of SES device slot on probe

From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit 75106523f39751390b5789b36ee1d213b3af1945 ]

The commit 08024885a2a3 ("ses: Add power_status to SES device slot")
introduced the 'power_status' attribute to enclosure components and
the associated callbacks.

There are 2 callbacks available to get the power status of a device:
1) ses_get_power_status() for 'struct enclosure_component_callbacks'
2) get_component_power_status() for the sysfs device attribute
(these are available for kernel-space and user-space, respectively.)

However, despite both methods being available to get power status
on demand, that commit also introduced a call to get power status
in ses_enclosure_data_process().

This dramatically increased the total probe time for SCSI devices
on larger configurations, because ses_enclosure_data_process() is
called several times during the SCSI devices probe and loops over
the component devices (but that is another problem, another patch).

That results in a tremendous continuous hammering of SCSI Receive
Diagnostics commands to the enclosure-services device, which does
delay the total probe time for the SCSI devices __significantly__:

  Originally, ~34 minutes on a system attached to ~170 disks:

    [ 9214.490703] mpt3sas version 13.100.00.00 loaded
    ...
    [11256.580231] scsi 17:0:177:0: qdepth(16), tagged(1), simple(0),
                   ordered(0), scsi_level(6), cmd_que(1)

  With this patch, it decreased to ~2.5 minutes -- a 13.6x faster

    [ 1002.992533] mpt3sas version 13.100.00.00 loaded
    ...
    [ 1151.978831] scsi 11:0:177:0: qdepth(16), tagged(1), simple(0),
                   ordered(0), scsi_level(6), cmd_que(1)

Back to the commit discussion.. on the ses_get_power_status() call
introduced in ses_enclosure_data_process(): impact of removing it.

That may possibly be in place to initialize the power status value
on device probe.  However, those 2 functions available to retrieve
that value _do_ automatically refresh/update it.  So the potential
benefit would be a direct access of the 'power_status' field which
does not use the callbacks...

But the only reader of 'struct enclosure_component::power_status'
is the get_component_power_status() callback for sysfs attribute,
and it _does_ check for and call the .get_power_status callback,
(which indeed is defined and implemented by that commit), so the
power status value is, again, automatically updated.

So, the remaining potential for a direct/non-callback access to
the power_status attribute would be out-of-tree modules -- well,
for those, if they are for whatever reason interested in values
that are set during device probe and not up-to-date by the time
they need it.. well, that would be curious.

Well, to handle that more properly, set the initial power state
value to '-1' (i.e., uninitialized) instead of '1' (power 'on'),
and check for it in that callback which may do an direct access
to the field value _if_ a callback function is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 08024885a2a3 ("ses: Add power_status to SES device slot")
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/misc/enclosure.c |    7 ++++++-
 drivers/scsi/ses.c       |    1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ enclosure_register(struct device *dev, c
 	for (i = 0; i < components; i++) {
 		edev->component[i].number = -1;
 		edev->component[i].slot = -1;
-		edev->component[i].power_status = 1;
+		edev->component[i].power_status = -1;
 	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&container_list_lock);
@@ -600,6 +600,11 @@ static ssize_t get_component_power_statu
 
 	if (edev->cb->get_power_status)
 		edev->cb->get_power_status(edev, ecomp);
+
+	/* If still uninitialized, the callback failed or does not exist. */
+	if (ecomp->power_status == -1)
+		return (edev->cb->get_power_status) ? -EIO : -ENOTTY;
+
 	return snprintf(buf, 40, "%s\n", ecomp->power_status ? "on" : "off");
 }
 
--- a/drivers/scsi/ses.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ses.c
@@ -546,7 +546,6 @@ static void ses_enclosure_data_process(s
 					ecomp = &edev->component[components++];
 
 				if (!IS_ERR(ecomp)) {
-					ses_get_power_status(edev, ecomp);
 					if (addl_desc_ptr)
 						ses_process_descriptor(
 							ecomp,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.4/scsi-ses-don-t-get-power-status-of-ses-device-slot-on-probe.patch