1. 07 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      [S390] dasd: improve error recovery for internal I/O · eb6e199b
      Stefan Weinhuber 提交于
      Most of the error conditions reported by a FICON storage server
      indicate situations which can be recovered. Sometimes the host just
      needs to retry an I/O request, but sometimes the recovery
      is more complex and requires the device driver to wait, choose
      a different path, etc.
      
      The DASD device driver has a fully featured error recovery
      for normal block layer I/O, but not for internal I/O request which
      are for example used during the device bring up.
      This can lead to situations where the IPL of a system fails because
      DASD devices are not properly recognized.
      This patch will extend the internal I/O handling to use the existing
      error recovery procedures.
      Signed-off-by: NStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      eb6e199b
  2. 11 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      [S390] dasd: add hyper PAV support to DASD device driver, part 1 · 8e09f215
      Stefan Weinhuber 提交于
      Parallel access volumes (PAV) is a storage server feature, that allows
      to start multiple channel programs on the same DASD in parallel. It
      defines alias devices which can be used as alternative paths to the
      same disk. With the old base PAV support we only needed rudimentary
      functionality in the DASD device driver. As the mapping between base
      and alias devices was static, we just had to export an identifier
      (uid) and could leave the combining of devices to external layers
      like a device mapper multipath.
      Now hyper PAV removes the requirement to dedicate alias devices to
      specific base devices. Instead each alias devices can be combined with
      multiple base device on a per request basis. This requires full
      support by the DASD device driver as now each channel program itself
      has to identify the target base device.
      The changes to the dasd device driver and the ECKD discipline are:
      - Separate subchannel device representation (dasd_device) from block
        device representation (dasd_block). Only base devices are block
        devices.
      - Gather information about base and alias devices and possible
        combinations.
      - For each request decide which dasd_device should be used (base or
        alias) and build specific channel program.
      - Support summary unit checks, which allow the storage server to
        upgrade / downgrade between base and hyper PAV at runtime (support
        is mandatory).
      Signed-off-by: NStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      8e09f215