Caching the adapter file descriptor and performing a close on behalf of
an application is a poor design. This is due to the fact that once a
file descriptor in installed, it is free to be altered without the
knowledge of the cxlflash driver. This can lead to inconsistencies
between the application and kernel. Furthermore, the nature of the
former design is more exploitable and thus should be abandoned.
To support applications performing a close on the adapter file that is
associated with a context, a new flag is introduced to the user API to
indicate to applications that they are responsible for the close
following the cleanup (detach) of a context. The documentation is also
updated to reflect this change in behavior.
Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Applications which use virtual LUN's that are backed by a physical LUN
over both adapter ports may experience an I/O failure in the event of a
link loss (e.g. cable pull).
Virtual LUNs may be accessed through one or both ports of the adapter.
This access is encoded in the translation entries that comprise the
virtual LUN and used by the AFU for load-balancing I/O and handling
failover scenarios. In a link loss scenario, even though the AFU is able
to maintain connectivity to the LUN, it is up to the application to
retry the failed I/O. When applications are unaware of the virtual LUN's
underlying topology, they are unable to make a sound decision of when to
retry an I/O and therefore are forced to make their reaction to a failed
I/O absolute. The result is either a failure to retry I/O or increased
latency for scenarios where a retry is pointless.
To remedy this scenario, provide feedback back to the application on
virtual LUN creation as to which ports the LUN may be accessed. LUN's
spanning both ports are candidates for a retry in a presence of an I/O
failure.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device
driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user
space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual
LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this
adapter.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL
Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage
of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the
traditional filesystem stack.
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
