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* [PATCH] Add man page for the cciss driver
@ 2011-08-12 14:23 Stephen M. Cameron
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From: Stephen M. Cameron @ 2011-08-12 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron-3C9H9nn4BS4HL6m8NFMY+dBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>

This patch applied to man-pages-3.32.

I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
of having worked on the cciss driver for the past several years,
and having written considerable portions of it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron-3C9H9nn4BS4HL6m8NFMY+dBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
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+.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
+.ds q \N'34'
+.TH CCISS 4 "cciss"
+.SH NAME
+cciss \- HP Smart Array block driver
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+modprobe cciss [ cciss_allow_hpsa=1 ]
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B cciss
+is a block driver for older HP Smart Array RAID controllers.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.HP
+cciss_allow_hpsa=1
+This option prevents the cciss driver
+from attempting to drive any controllers which the hpsa driver
+is capable of controlling, which is to say, the cciss driver
+is restricted by this option to the following controllers:
+.nf
+
+	Smart Array 5300
+	Smart Array 5i
+	Smart Array 532
+	Smart Array 5312
+	Smart Array 641
+	Smart Array 642
+	Smart Array 6400
+	Smart Array 6400 EM
+	Smart Array 6i
+	Smart Array P600
+	Smart Array P400i
+	Smart Array E200i
+	Smart Array E200
+	Smart Array E200i
+	Smart Array E200i
+	Smart Array E200i
+	Smart Array E500
+.fi
+
+
+.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
+The
+.B cciss
+driver supports the following Smart Array boards:
+.nf
+
+	Smart Array 5300
+	Smart Array 5i
+	Smart Array 532
+	Smart Array 5312
+	Smart Array 641
+	Smart Array 642
+	Smart Array 6400
+	Smart Array 6400 U320 Expansion Module
+	Smart Array 6i
+	Smart Array P600
+	Smart Array P800
+	Smart Array E400
+	Smart Array P400i
+	Smart Array E200
+	Smart Array E200i
+	Smart Array E500
+	Smart Array P700m
+	Smart Array P212
+	Smart Array P410
+	Smart Array P410i
+	Smart Array P411
+	Smart Array P812
+	Smart Array P712m
+	Smart Array P711m
+.fi
+.SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS
+To configure HP Smart Array controllers, use the HP Array Configuration Utility
+(either hpacuxe or hpacucli) or the Offline ROM-based Configuration Utility (ORCA)
+run from the Smart Array's option ROM at boot time.
+.SH FILES
+.SS DEVICE NODES
+The device naming scheme is as follows:
+.nf
+Major numbers:
+        104     cciss0
+        105     cciss1
+        106     cciss2
+        105     cciss3
+        108     cciss4
+        109     cciss5
+        110     cciss6
+        111     cciss7
+
+Minor numbers:
+        b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
+        |----+----| |----+----|
+             |           |
+             |           +-------- Partition ID (0=wholedev, 1-15 partition)
+             |
+             +-------------------- Logical Volume number
+
+The device naming scheme is:
+/dev/cciss/c0d0                 Controller 0, disk 0, whole device
+/dev/cciss/c0d0p1               Controller 0, disk 0, partition 1
+/dev/cciss/c0d0p2               Controller 0, disk 0, partition 2
+/dev/cciss/c0d0p3               Controller 0, disk 0, partition 3
+
+/dev/cciss/c1d1                 Controller 1, disk 1, whole device
+/dev/cciss/c1d1p1               Controller 1, disk 1, partition 1
+/dev/cciss/c1d1p2               Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2
+/dev/cciss/c1d1p3               Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3
+
+.fi
+.SS FILES IN /proc
+The files /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]+ contain information about
+the configuration of each controller.  For example:
+.nf
+
+	someone@somehost:/proc/driver/cciss> ls -l
+	total 0
+	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss0
+	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss1
+	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss2
+	someone@somehost:/proc/driver/cciss> cat cciss2
+	cciss2: HP Smart Array P800 Controller
+	Board ID: 0x3223103c
+	Firmware Version: 7.14
+	IRQ: 16
+	Logical drives: 1
+	Current Q depth: 0
+	Current # commands on controller: 0
+	Max Q depth since init: 1
+	Max # commands on controller since init: 2
+	Max SG entries since init: 32
+	Sequential access devices: 0
+
+	cciss/c2d0:	  36.38GB	RAID 0
+	someone@somehost:/proc/driver/cciss>
+
+.fi
+.SS FILES IN /sys
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/model
+
+Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 model for logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/rev
+
+Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 revision for logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/unique_id
+
+Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 83 serial number for logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/vendor
+
+Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 vendor for logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/block:cciss!cXdY
+
+A symbolic link to /sys/block/cciss!cXdY
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan
+
+Kicks off a rescan of the controller to discover logical drive topology changes.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
+
+A value of 1 indicates the "reset_devices=1" kernel parameter (used by
+kdump) is honored by this controller.  A value of 0 indicates the
+"reset_devices=1" kernel parameter will not be honored.  Some models
+of Smart Array are not able to honor this parameter.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/lunid
+
+Displays the 8-byte LUN ID used to address logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/raid_level
+
+Displays the RAID level of logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.HP
+/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/usage_count
+
+Displays the usage count (number of opens) of logical drive Y of controller X.
+
+.SH SCSI tape drive and medium changer support
+
+SCSI sequential access devices and medium changer devices are supported and
+appropriate device nodes are automatically created.  (e.g.
+/dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc.  See the "st" man page for more details.)
+You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and
+"SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI
+tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller.
+
+Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init
+time.  The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via
+the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as
+/proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime.  This is because at driver init time,
+the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block
+driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case
+would cause a hang.  This is best done via an initialization script
+(typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution).
+For example:
+.nf
+
+        for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
+        do
+                echo "engage scsi" > $x
+        done
+
+.fi
+Once the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged
+(except by unloading the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)
+
+Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are
+detected, the SCSI core will not be engaged by the action of the above
+script.
+
+.SS Hot plug support for SCSI tape drives
+
+Hot plugging of SCSI tape drives is supported, with some caveats.
+The cciss driver must be informed that changes to the SCSI bus
+have been made.  This may be done via the /proc filesystem.
+For example:
+
+        echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1
+
+This causes the driver to query the adapter about changes to the
+physical SCSI buses and/or fibre channel arbitrated loop and the
+driver to make note of any new or removed sequential access devices
+or medium changers.  The driver will output messages indicating what
+devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target and
+lun used to address the device.  It then notifies the SCSI mid layer
+of these changes.
+
+Note that the naming convention of the /proc filesystem entries
+contains a number in addition to the driver name.  (E.g. "cciss0"
+instead of just "cciss" which you might expect.)
+
+Note: ONLY sequential access devices and medium changers are presented
+as SCSI devices to the SCSI mid layer by the cciss driver.  Specifically,
+physical SCSI disk drives are NOT presented to the SCSI mid layer.  The
+physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
+hardware and it is important to prevent the kernel from attempting to directly
+access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
+controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.
+
+.SS SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
+
+The linux SCSI mid layer provides an error handling protocol which
+kicks into gear whenever a SCSI command fails to complete within a
+certain amount of time (which can vary depending on the command).
+The cciss driver participates in this protocol to some extent.  The
+normal protocol is a four step process.  First the device is told
+to abort the command.  If that doesn't work, the device is reset.
+If that doesn't work, the SCSI bus is reset.  If that doesn't work
+the host bus adapter is reset.  Because the cciss driver is a block
+driver as well as a SCSI driver and only the tape drives and medium
+changers are presented to the SCSI mid layer, and unlike more
+straightforward SCSI drivers, disk i/o continues through the block
+side during the SCSI error recovery process, the cciss driver only
+implements the first two of these actions, aborting the command, and
+resetting the device.  Additionally, most tape drives will not oblige
+in aborting commands, and sometimes it appears they will not even
+obey a reset command, though in most circumstances they will.  In
+the case that the command cannot be aborted and the device cannot be
+reset, the device will be set offline.
+
+In the event the error handling code is triggered and a tape drive is
+successfully reset or the tardy command is successfully aborted, the
+tape drive may still not allow i/o to continue until some command
+is issued which positions the tape to a known position.  Typically you
+must rewind the tape (by issuing "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" for example)
+before i/o can proceed again to a tape drive which was reset.
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+hpsa(4), hpacucli(8), hpacuxe(8), cciss_vol_status(8), http://cciss.sf.net,
+and from the linux kernel source, Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt and
+Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss
+.SH AUTHORS
+Don Brace, Steve Cameron, Chase Maupin, Mike Miller, Michael Ni, Charles White, Francis Wiran
+and probably some other people.
+
+

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