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2008-01-26[S390] dasd: add hyper PAV support to DASD device driver, part 1Stefan Weinhuber
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: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-06-29[S390] add PAV support to the dasd driver.Horst Hummel
Add support for parallel-access-volumes to the dasd driver. This allows concurrent access to dasd devices with multiple channel programs. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-06-29[S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics.Horst Hummel
Dasd code cleanup: 1) remove white space, 2) remove the emacs override sections, and 3) use kzalloc instead of kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-04-28[PATCH] s390: dasd device identifiersHorst Hummel
Generate new sysfs-attribute 'uid' that contains an device specific unique identifier. This can be used to identity multiple ALIASES of the same physical device (PAV). In addition the sysfs-attributes 'vendor' (containing the manufacturer of the device) and 'alias' (identify alias or base device) is added. This is first part of PAV support in LPAR (also valid on zVM). Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reportingStefan Weinhuber
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed information about certain problems in the DASD I/O. This information can be used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20[PATCH] s390: revert dasd eer moduleHeiko Carstens
Revert dasd eer module until we have a common understanding of how the interface should be. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03[PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting moduleStefan Weinhuber
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed information about certain problems in the DASD I/O. This information can be used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] s390: Remove CVS generated informationHeiko Carstens
- Remove all CVS generated information like e.g. revision IDs from drivers/s390 and include/asm-s390 (none present in arch/s390). - Add newline at end of arch/s390/lib/Makefile to avoid diff message. Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!