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From: Ke Wei <kewei.mv@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ke Wei <kewei.mv@gmail.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, qswang@marvell.com,
	jfeng@marvell.com, qzhao@marvell.com, lil@marvell.com,
	saeed.bishara@gmail.com, kewei@marvell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mvsas: Mainly add version info to run testing process.
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:34:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080229133444.GA7908@ubuntu.domain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204247725.4003.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:15:25PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 11:16 +0800, Ke Wei wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 20:50 +0800, Ke Wei wrote:
> > > > 1. Owing to device testing, we need the kernel can show mvsas current
> > > > version in the /proc system.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid proc is really deprecated now.  We have /sys for showing
> > > necessary information.  For an example of how to use /sys, aacraid does
> > > it the right way (drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c).  They use this for
> > > exposing a lot of detail about the actual device and its firmware.  The
> > > format of sysfs is one entry per file, rather than descriptive text.
> > >
> > > However, for both the parameters you're trying to export, you can get
> > > them an alternative way.  The driver version is available from modinfo,
> > > which is usually what your support is looking for:
> > >
> > > jejb@hobholes> modinfo -F version mvsas
> > > 0.5
> > >
> > > And the sas_address is available from the phys.  Because it's possible
> > > for a HBA to have a different address per phy, it has to be stored this
> > > way:
> > >
> > > jejb@hobholes> ls /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/*/sas_phy\:*/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:0/sas_phy:phy-0:0/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:1/sas_phy:phy-0:1/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:2/sas_phy:phy-0:2/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:3/sas_phy:phy-0:3/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:4/sas_phy:phy-0:4/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:5/sas_phy:phy-0:5/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:6/sas_phy:phy-0:6/sas_address
> > > /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/phy-0:7/sas_phy:phy-0:7/sas_address
> > >
> > > (showing that the sas_address is stored under the sas_phy class in
> > > sysfs).  The values for this one (aic94xx) are all the same:
> > >
> > > jejb@hobholes> cat /sys/class/sas_host/host0/device/*/sas_phy\:*/sas_address
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > > 0x50000d100001cae0
> > >
> > Ok, I will tell our testing team how to show version in this way.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > >
> > > > 2. Set the correct SAS address to per port.
> > >
> > > This looks interesting:
> > >
> > > >         for (i = 0; i < mvi->chip->n_phy; i++) {
> > > > -               /* FIXME: is this the correct dword order? */
> > > > -               u32 lo = *((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[0]);
> > > > -               u32 hi = *((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[4]);
> > > > +               u32 lo = swab32p((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[4]);
> > > > +               u32 hi = swab32p((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[0]);
> > > >
> > > >                 mvs_detect_porttype(mvi, i);
> > >
> > > I'm assuming the swab32p is because the mvi->sas_addr array is in wire
> > > (big endian) format, and you need to write it out to the config
> > > registers as two u32 upper and lower words via mvs_write_port_cfg.  As
> > > long as that register set is always in pci order (little endian), I
> > > think this will work, but has it been tested on a big endian system,
> > > like PPC?
> > 
> > Yes,  the mvi->sas_addr array is in wire big endian format. And it
> > will be written to two
> > little-endian 32-bit registers after converting to little endian. So I
> > think this is independent
> > of system architecture.
> 
> OK, so in that case, this manner of doing the transformations will fail
> on a Big Endian machine.  I think instead of the swab32p, which will
> swap to little endian all the time, you want be32_to_cpu() which will
> swap on a little endian CPU but not on a big endian one.
> 
> The register outputs eventually go via writel which likewise includes a
> cpu_to_<architecture endianness> before it actually does the write (So
> on a big endian machine, writel takes big endian in and swaps to output
> in PCI bus format, which is little endian).
> 
> James
You are right. I will patch for this issue.
BTW, mvsas driver may perform big endian transfers in a big-endian system in the future.
Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Ke Wei <kewei@marvell.com>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 3e56178..1f77b6e
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
@@ -2747,8 +2747,8 @@ static int __devinit mvs_hw_init(struct mvs_info *mvi)
 	msleep(100);
 	/* init and reset phys */
 	for (i = 0; i < mvi->chip->n_phy; i++) {
-		u32 lo = swab32p((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[4]);
-		u32 hi = swab32p((u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[0]);
+		u32 lo = be32_to_cpu(*(u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[4]);
+		u32 hi = be32_to_cpu(*(u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[0]);
 
 		mvs_detect_porttype(mvi, i);
 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-29 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-27 12:50 [PATCH] mvsas: Mainly add version info to run testing process Ke Wei
2008-02-27 16:22 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-28  3:16   ` Ke Wei
2008-02-28 23:51     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-29  1:15     ` James Bottomley
2008-02-29 13:34       ` Ke Wei [this message]
2008-02-29 17:04         ` James Bottomley

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