Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:50:49 +0200 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Sense fetching [Was: cdrtools /devel ...] Message-ID: <4CD45209.5010607@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi. I've reviewed tests that scgcheck does to SCSI subsystem. It shown combination of several issues in both CAM, ahci(4) and cdrtools itself. Several small patches allow us to pass most of that tests: http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/sense/ ahci_resid.patch: Add support for reporting residual length on data underrun. SCSI commands often returns results shorter then expected. Returned value allows application to know/check how much data it really has. It is also important for sense fetching, as ATAPI and USB devices return sense as data in response to REQUEST_SENSE command. sense_resid.patch: When manually requesting sense data (ATAPI or USB), request only as much data as user requested (not the fixed structure size), and return respective sense residual length. pass_autosence.patch: Unless CAM_DIS_AUTOSENSE is set, always fetch sense if not done by SIM, independently of CAM_PASS_ERR_RECOVER. As soon as device freeze released before returning to user-level, user-level application by definition can't reliably fetch sense data if some other application (like hald) tries to access device same time. cdrtools.patch: Make libscg (part of cdrtools) on FreeBSD to submit wanted sense length to CAM and do not clear sense return buffer. It is mostly cosmetics, important probably only for scgcheck. Testers and reviewers welcome. I am especially interested in opinion about pass_autosence.patch -- may be we should lower sense fetching even deeper, to make it work for all cam_periph_runccb() consumers. -- Alexander Motin
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