This patch removes the original usage of dev_attr->max_sectors in favor of
dev_attr->hw_max_sectors that is now being enforced by target core from
within transport_generic_cmd_sequencer() for SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB ops.

After the recent se_task removal patches from hch, this value for IBLOCK
backends being set via configfs by userspace from an saved max_sectors
value that is turning out to be problematic, so it makes sense to go ahead
and remove this now legacy attribute all-together.

This patch also continues to make se_dev_set_default_attribs() do
(sectors / block_size) alignment for what actually get used by
target_core_mod to be safe here, following the same alignment currently
used by fabric_max_sectors.
Reported-by: NAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Get rid of a bunch of write-only variables.  In a number of cases I
suspect actual bugs to be present, so I left all of those for a second
look.

(nab: fix lio-core patch fuzz)
Signed-off-by: NJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch drops the following unused legacy API callers from target_core_fabric.h:

*) TFO->fall_back_to_erl0()
*) TFO->stop_session()
*) TFO->sess_logged_in()
*) TFO->is_state_remove()

This patch also removes the stub usage in loopback, tcm_fc, iscsi_target,
and ib_srpt fabric modules.
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Correct spelling "exeeds" to "exceeds" in iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
Correct spelling "diabled" to "disabled" in target_core_configfs.c
Signed-off-by: NMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

se_dev_attrib.max_sectors currently has two independent meanings:

 - It is reported in the block limits VPD page as the maximum transfer
   length, ie the largest IO that the front-end (fabric) can handle.
   Also the target core doesn't enforce this maximum transfer length.

 - It is used to hold the size of the largest IO that the back-end can
   handle, so we know when to split SCSI commands into multiple tasks.

Fix this by adding a new se_dev_attrib.fabric_max_sectors to hold the
maximum transfer length, and checking incoming IOs against that limit.
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Instead of

   static struct list_head foo;
   static struct mutex bar;

   ...

   INIT_LIST_HEAD(&foo);
   mutex_init(&bar);

just do

   static LIST_HEAD(foo);
   static DEFINE_MUTEX(bar);

Also remove some superfluous struct list_head and spinlock_t
initialization calls where the variables are already defined using
macros that initialize them.

This saves a decent amount of compiled code too:

    add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-178 (-178)
    function                                     old     new   delta
    target_core_init_configfs                    898     850     -48
    core_scsi3_emulate_pro_preempt              1742    1683     -59
    iscsi_thread_set_init                        159      88     -71
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

These are root only and we're not likely to hit the problem in practise,
but it makes the static checkers happy.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch strips the trailing newline from backend device udev_path and
alias attributes.
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

A reader should spend an extra moment whenever noticing a cast,
because either something special is going on that deserves extra
attention or, as is all too often the case, the code is wrong.

These casts, afaics, have all been useless.  They cast a foo* to a
foo*, cast a void* to the assigned type, cast a foo* to void*, before
assigning it to a void* variable, etc.

In a few cases I also removed an additional &...[0], which is equally
useless.

Lastly I added three FIXMEs where, to the best of my judgement, the
code appears to have a bug.  It would be good if someone could check
these.
Signed-off-by: NJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

The command
| echo rd_pages=32768 > ramdisk/control

Does not work because it writes "rd_pages=32768\n" and the parser which
matches for "rd_pages=%d" does not recognize it due to the \n. One way
of fixing this would be using "echo -n" instead.
This patch adds \n to the list of separators so we don't have to use the
-n argument which I find is more convinient.
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This reorganized the headers under include/target into:

 - target_core_base.h stays as is with all target-wide data stuctures and defines
 - target_core_backend.h contains the whole interface to I/O backends
 - target_core_fabric.h contains the whole interface to fabric modules

Except for those only the various configfs macro headers stay around.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Create a new headers, drivers/target/target_core_internal.h that is supposed
to hold all target_core-internal prototypes.  Move all non-exported includes
from include/target to it, and merge the smaller prototype-only includes
inside drivers/target into it as well.  Mark functions that were found to
not be called outside their implementation file static.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch removes the legacy usage of se_task->task_timer and associated
infrastructure that originally was used as a way to help manage buggy backend
SCSI LLDs that in certain cases would never return back an outstanding task.

This includes the removal of target_complete_timeout_work(), timeout logic
from transport_complete_task(), transport_task_timeout_handler(),
transport_start_task_timer(), the per device task_timeout configfs attribute,
and all task_timeout associated structure members and defines in
target_core_base.h

This is being removed in preparation to make transport_complete_task() run
in lock-less mode.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Remove the now unnecessary extra call to transport_subsystem_check_init() in
target_core_register_fabric(), and also merge transport_subsystem_reqmods()
directly into transport_subsystem_check_init().
Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Additionally this patch brings proper apply of the designator type.
However, the original code luckily has no bug, because the association
equals to 0.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch adds the default 'Unrestricted reordering allowed' for SCSI
control mode page QUEUE ALGORITHM MODIFIER on a per se_device basis in
target_modesense_control() following spc4r23.  This includes a new
emuluate_rest_reord configfs attribute that currently (only) accepts
zero to signal 'Unrestricted reordering allowed' in control mode page
usage by the backend target device.
Reported-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>

This patch contains the squashed version of forth round series cleanups
from Andy and Christoph following the post heavy lifting in the preceeding:
'Eliminate usage of struct se_mem' and 'Make all control CDBs scatter-gather'
changes.  This also includes a conversion of target core and the v3.0
mainline fabric modules (loopback and tcm_fc) to use pr_debug and the
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG infrastructure!

These have been squashed into this third and final round for v3.1.

target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write
target: Remove direct ramdisk code
target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents
target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err().
target: Remove custom debug macros in mainline fabrics
target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0
target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback
target: Further simplify transport_free_pages
target: Redo task allocation return value handling
target: Remove extra parentheses
target: change alloc_task call to take *cdb, not *cmd

(nab: Fix bogus struct file assignments in fd_do_readv and fd_do_writev)
Signed-off-by: NAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Implement page B1h, Block Device Characteristics, so that we can report
a medium rotation rate of 1 (non-rotating / solid state) if the
is_nonrot device attribute is set; we update the iblock backend to set
this attribute if the underlying Linux block device has its nonrot
flag set.
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

In target_fabric_configfs_init(), we should allow fabric_mod to be NULL,
since THIS_MODULE is NULL for built-in modules.  The main method of
using the target code may be as modules, but having everything built-in
is useful eg to be able to do quick testing with "qemu -kernel".

In any case, we shouldn't bomb out fabric registration for a perfectly
valid configuration, so simply drop the check of fabric_mod.
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

The release_cmd_to_pool and release_cmd_direct methods are always the same.
Merge them into a single release_cmd method, and clean up the fallout.

(nab: fix breakage in transport_generic_free_cmd() parameter build breakage
 in drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_cmd.c)
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch contains the squashed version of second round of target core
cleanups and simplifications and Andy and Co.   It also contains a handful
of fixes to address bugs the original series and other minor cleanups.

Here is the condensed shortlog:

target: Remove unneeded casts to void*
target: Rename get_lun_for_{cmd,tmr} to lookup_{cmd,tmr}_lun
target: Make t_task a member of se_cmd, not a pointer
target: Handle functions returning "-2"
target: Use cmd->se_dev over cmd->se_lun->lun_se_dev
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
target: Replace embedded struct se_queue_req with a list_head
target: Rename list_heads that are nodes in struct se_cmd to "*_node"
target: Fold transport_device_setup_cmd() into lookup_{tmr,cmd}_lun()
target: Make t_mem_list and t_mem_list_bidi members of t_task
target: Add comment & cleanup transport_map_sg_to_mem()
target: Remove unneeded checks in transport_free_pages()

(Roland: Fix se_queue_req removal leftovers OOPs)
(nab: Fix transport_lookup_tmr_lun failure case)
(nab: Fix list_empty(&cmd->t_task.t_mem_bidi_list) inversion bugs)
Signed-off-by: NAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch contains the squashed version of a number of cleanups and
minor fixes from Andy's initial series (round 1) for target core this
past spring.  The condensed log looks like:

target: use errno values instead of returning -1 for everything
target: Rename transport_calc_sg_num to transport_init_task_sg
target: Fix leak in error path in transport_init_task_sg
target/pscsi: Remove pscsi_get_sh() usage
target: Make two runtime checks into WARN_ONs
target: Remove hba queue depth and convert to spin_lock_irq usage
target: dev->dev_status_queue_obj is unused
target: Make struct se_queue_req.cmd type struct se_cmd *
target: Remove __transport_get_qr_from_queue()
target: Rename se_dev->g_se_dev_list to se_dev_node
target: Remove struct se_global
target: Simplify scsi mib index table code
target: Make dev_queue_obj a member of se_device instead of a pointer
target: remove extraneous returns at end of void functions
target: Ensure transport_dump_vpd_ident_type returns null-terminated str
target: Function pointers don't need to use '&' to be assigned
target: Fix comment in __transport_execute_tasks()
target: Misc style cleanups
target: rename struct pr_reservation_template to pr_reservation
target: Remove #defines that just perform indirection
target: Inline transport_get_task_from_execute_queue()
target: Minor header comment fixes
Signed-off-by: NAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch removes two instances of left over v3.x code performing local
scope access to struct target_core_fabric_ops->tf_subsys->su_group in
target_fabric_configfs_register() and target_fabric_configfs_deregister().
Reported-by: NChristophe Fergeau <cfergeau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch fixes a number of cases in target core using an incorrectly

	if (strlen(foo) > SOME_MAX_SIZE)

As strlen() returns the number of characters in the string not counting
the NULL character at the end.  So if you do something like:

        char buf[10];

        if (strlen("0123456789") > 10)
                return -ETOOLONG;
        snprintf(buf, 10, "0123456789");
        printf("%s\n", buf);

then the last "9" gets chopped off and only "012345678" is printed.

Plus I threw in one small related cleanup.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

In the original code, there were several places inside the
target_fabric_configfs_init() function that returned NULL on error
and one place the returned an ERR_PTR.  There are two places that
call this function and they only check for NULL returns; they don't
check for ERR_PTRs.  So I've changed the ERR_PTR so now the function
only returns NULL on error.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

This patch converts transport_core_report_lun_response() to use
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c:int_to_scsilun instead of using the
struct target_core_fabric_ops->pack_lun() fabric provided API vector.

It also removes the tfo->pack_lun check from target_fabric_tf_ops_check()
and removes from struct target_core_fabric_ops->pack_lun() from
target_core_fabric_ops.h, and the following mainline scsi-misc fabric
modules:

*) tcm_loop: Drop tcm_loop_pack_lun() usage
*) tcm_fc: Drop ft_pack_lun() usage
Reported-by: NMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>

This patch converts transport_core_report_lun_response() to use
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c:int_to_scsilun instead of using the
struct target_core_fabric_ops->pack_lun() fabric provided API vector.

It also removes the tfo->pack_lun check from target_fabric_tf_ops_check()
and removes from struct target_core_fabric_ops->pack_lun() from
target_core_fabric_ops.h, and the following mainline scsi-misc fabric
modules:

*) tcm_loop: Drop tcm_loop_pack_lun() usage
*) tcm_fc: Drop ft_pack_lun() usage
Reported-by: NMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>

This patch adds a target_core_mib.c statistics conversion for
backend context struct se_subsystem_dev + struct se_device config_group
based statistics in target_core_device.c using CONFIGFS_EATTR()
based struct config_item_types from target_core_stat.c code.

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_dev, scsi_lu, and scsi_tgt_dev output
from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/core/$HBA/DEV/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_dev:

|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- ports
`-- role

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_lu:

|-- creation_time
|-- dev
|-- dev_type
|-- full_stat
|-- hs_num_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- lu_name
|-- lun
|-- num_cmds
|-- prod
|-- read_mbytes
|-- resets
|-- rev
|-- state_bit
|-- status
|-- vend
`-- write_mbytes

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_tgt_dev:

|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- non_access_lus
|-- num_lus
|-- resets
`-- status

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_port, scsi_tgt_port and scsi_transport
output from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_port

|-- busy_count
|-- dev
|-- indx
|-- inst
`-- role

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_tgt_port

|-- dev
|-- hs_in_cmds
|-- in_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- name
|-- port_index
|-- read_mbytes
`-- write_mbytes

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_transport

|-- dev_name
|-- device
|-- indx
`-- inst

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_att_intr_port and scsi_auth_intr output
from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_att_intr_port

|-- dev
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- port
|-- port_auth_indx
`-- port_ident

*) acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_auth_intr

|-- att_count
|-- creation_time
|-- dev
|-- dev_or_port
|-- hs_num_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- intr_name
|-- map_indx
|-- num_cmds
|-- port
|-- read_mbytes
|-- row_status
`-- write_mbytes

Also, this includes adding struct target_fabric_configfs_template->
tfc_wwn_fabric_stats_cit and ->tfc_tpg_nacl_stat_cit respectively for
use during target_core_fabric_configfs.c:target_fabric_setup_cits()
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch fixes the follownig section mismatch warning:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x21617a): Section mismatch in reference from the
function target_core_init_configfs() to the function .init.text:rd_module_init()

The function target_core_init_configfs() references the function __init
rd_module_init().  This is often because target_core_init_configfs() lacks
a __init annotation or the annotation of rd_module_init is wrong.
Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch converts the target_core_store_dev_enable() -> struct
se_subsystem_api->create_virtdevice() call to return proper ERR_PTR values
back up to configfs logic during backend dependent struct se_device ENABLE
exception conditions.

Along with the change to target_core_configfs.c, this includes converting IBLOCK,
FILEIO, pSCSI, and RAMDISK_* backend subsystem plugins to obtain upper level
PTR_ERR return codes (where available), and return via ERR_PTR during a
*_create_virtdev() failure.
Reported-by: NFubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

match_strdup() dynamically allocates memory and it is the responsabillity
of the caller to free that memory. The following three cases:

drivers/target/target_core_file.c:fd_set_configfs_dev_params()
drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c:iblock_set_configfs_dev_params()
drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c:target_core_dev_pr_store_attr_res_aptpl_metadata()

should be kfree()'ing the allocated memory once it is no longer needed.
It also makes sure to return -ENOMEM if the memory allocation in match_strdup()
should fail.  For target_core_configfs.c, this patch adds kfree()'s around
Opt_initiator_fabric, Opt_initiator_node, Opt_initiator_sid, Opt_sa_res_key,
Opt_target_fabric, and Opt_target_node for the Persistent Reservations
Activate Persistence across Target Power Loss (APTPL=1) token parsing.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch moves a large number of memory release paths inside of the
configfs callback target_core_hba_item_ops->release() called from
within fs/configfs/item.c: config_item_cleanup() context.  This patch
resolves the SLUB 'Poison overwritten' warnings.
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch removes the legacy procfs based target_core_mib.c code,
and moves the necessary scsi_index_tables functions and defines into
target_core_transport.c and target_core_base.h code to allow existing
fabric independent statistics to function.

This includes the removal of a handful of 'atomic_t mib_ref_count'
counters used in struct se_node_acl, se_session and se_hba to prevent
removal while using seq_list procfs walking logic.

[jejb: fix up compile failures]
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch fixes two bugs uncovered during testing with
slub_debug=FPUZ during module_exit() -> target_core_exit_configfs()
with release of configfs subsystem consumer default groups, namely how
this should be working with
fs/configfs/dir.c:configfs_unregister_subsystem() release logic for
struct config_group->default_group.

The first issue involves configfs_unregister_subsystem() expecting to
walk+drain the top-level subsys->su_group.default_groups directly in
unlink_group(), and not directly from the configfs subsystem consumer
for the top level struct config_group->default_groups.  This patch
drops the walk+drain of subsys->su_group.default_groups from TCM
configfs subsystem consumer code, and moves the top-level
->default_groups kfree() after configfs_unregister_subsystem() has
been called.

The second issue involves calling
core_alua_free_lu_gp(se_global->default_lu_gp) to release the
default_lu_gp->lu_gp_group before configfs_unregister_subsystem() has
been called.  This patches also moves the core_alua_free_lu_gp() call
to release default_lu_group->lu_gp_group after the subsys has been
unregistered.

Finally, this patch explictly clears the
[lu_gp,alua,hba]_cg->default_groups pointers after kfree() to ensure
that no stale memory is picked up from child struct
config_group->default_group[] while configfs_unregister_subsystem() is
called.
Reported-by: NFubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the
following feature set:

High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD
support.

Advanced SCSI feature set:

    * Persistent Reservations (PRs)
    * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA)
    * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S)
    * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2)
    * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2)
    * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx)

Multiprotocol target plugins

Storage media independence:

    * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs
    * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB
    * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc.

Standards compliance:

    * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720)
    * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA

Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig.

[jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from
 Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.]
Signed-off-by: NNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>