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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/target/target_core_device.c, branch v6.18.22</title>
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<updated>2025-04-29T01:47:55+00:00</updated>
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<title>scsi: target: Move delayed/ordered tracking to per CPU</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T01:47:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>michael.christie@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-24T03:26:33+00:00</published>
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The atomic use from the delayed/ordered tracking is causing perf issues
when using higher perf backend devices and multiple queues.  This moves
the values to a per CPU counter. Combined with the per CPU stats patch,
this improves IOPS by up to 33% for 8K IOS when using 4 or more queues
from the initiator.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424032741.16216-3-michael.christie@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: Move I/O path stats to per CPU</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T01:47:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>michael.christie@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-24T03:26:32+00:00</published>
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The atomic use in the main I/O path is causing perf issues when using
higher performance backend devices and multiple queues. This moves the
stats to per CPU. Combined with the next patch that moves the
non_ordered/delayed_cmd_count to per CPU, IOPS by up to 33% for 8K IOS
when using 4 or more queues.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424032741.16216-2-michael.christie@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: usb: Rename the RESERVE and RELEASE constants</title>
<updated>2025-02-13T03:20:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T20:50:09+00:00</published>
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The names RESERVE and RELEASE are not only used in &lt;scsi/scsi_proto.h&gt; but
also elsewhere in the kernel:

$ git grep -nHE 'define[[:blank:]]*(RESERVE|RELEASE)[[:blank:]]'
drivers/input/joystick/walkera0701.c:13:#define RESERVE 20000
drivers/s390/char/tape_std.h:56:#define RELEASE			0xD4	/* 3420 NOP, 3480 REJECT */
drivers/s390/char/tape_std.h:58:#define RESERVE			0xF4	/* 3420 NOP, 3480 REJECT */

Additionally, while the names of the symbolic constants RESERVE_10 and
RELEASE_10 include the command length, the command length is not included
in the RESERVE and RELEASE names. Address both issues by renaming the
RESERVE and RELEASE constants into RESERVE_6 and RELEASE_6 respectively.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210205031.2970833-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2024-10-19T19:52:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-19T19:52:19+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
 "Fixes all in drivers. The largest is the mpi3mr which corrects a phy
  count limit that should only apply to the controller but was being
  incorrectly applied to expander phys"

* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()
  scsi: mpi3mr: Validate SAS port assignments
  scsi: ufs: core: Set SDEV_OFFLINE when UFS is shut down
  scsi: ufs: core: Requeue aborted request
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix the issue of ICU failure
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<title>scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()</title>
<updated>2024-10-16T02:25:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Hai</name>
<email>wanghai38@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-11T11:34:44+00:00</published>
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There is a null-ptr-deref issue reported by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]
...
 kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0
 target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]
 core_dev_setup_virtual_lun0+0xef/0x1f0 [target_core_mod]
 target_core_init_configfs+0x205/0x420 [target_core_mod]
 do_one_initcall+0xdd/0x4e0
...
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

In target_alloc_device(), if allocing memory for dev queues fails, then
dev will be freed by dev-&gt;transport-&gt;free_device(), but dev-&gt;transport
is not initialized at that time, which will lead to a null pointer
reference problem.

Fixing this bug by freeing dev with hba-&gt;backend-&gt;ops-&gt;free_device().

Fixes: 1526d9f10c61 ("scsi: target: Make state_list per CPU")
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai &lt;wanghai38@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241011113444.40749-1-wanghai38@huawei.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: Remove unused list 'device_list'</title>
<updated>2024-05-07T01:40:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-03T23:44:19+00:00</published>
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Commit be50f538e9a5 ("target: remove g_device_list") made 'g_device_list'
local as 'device_list' but also removed the last use of it, the code that
added the device to it.

Build tested only.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503234419.171823-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: core: Add TMF to tmr_list handling</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T02:43:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Bogdanov</name>
<email>d.bogdanov@yadro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T12:59:41+00:00</published>
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An abort that is responded to by iSCSI itself is added to tmr_list but does
not go to target core. A LUN_RESET that goes through tmr_list takes a
refcounter on the abort and waits for completion. However, the abort will
be never complete because it was not started in target core.

 Unable to locate ITT: 0x05000000 on CID: 0
 Unable to locate RefTaskTag: 0x05000000 on CID: 0.
 wait_for_tasks: Stopping tmf LUN_RESET with tag 0x0 ref_task_tag 0x0 i_state 34 t_state ISTATE_PROCESSING refcnt 2 transport_state active,stop,fabric_stop
 wait for tasks: tmf LUN_RESET with tag 0x0 ref_task_tag 0x0 i_state 34 t_state ISTATE_PROCESSING refcnt 2 transport_state active,stop,fabric_stop
...
 INFO: task kworker/0:2:49 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
 task:kworker/0:2     state:D stack:    0 pid:   49 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000800
 Workqueue: events target_tmr_work [target_core_mod]
Call Trace:
 __switch_to+0x2c4/0x470
 _schedule+0x314/0x1730
 schedule+0x64/0x130
 schedule_timeout+0x168/0x430
 wait_for_completion+0x140/0x270
 target_put_cmd_and_wait+0x64/0xb0 [target_core_mod]
 core_tmr_lun_reset+0x30/0xa0 [target_core_mod]
 target_tmr_work+0xc8/0x1b0 [target_core_mod]
 process_one_work+0x2d4/0x5d0
 worker_thread+0x78/0x6c0

To fix this, only add abort to tmr_list if it will be handled by target
core.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bogdanov &lt;d.bogdanov@yadro.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111125941.8688-1-d.bogdanov@yadro.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T01:13:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T01:13:50+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "Updates to the usual drivers (ufs, megaraid_sas, lpfc, target, ibmvfc,
  scsi_debug) plus the usual assorted minor fixes and updates.

  The major change this time around is a prep patch for rethreading of
  the driver reset handler API not to take a scsi_cmd structure which
  starts to reduce various drivers' dependence on scsi_cmd in error
  handling"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (132 commits)
  scsi: ufs: core: Leave space for '\0' in utf8 desc string
  scsi: ufs: core: Conversion to bool not necessary
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix race between force complete and ISR
  scsi: megaraid: Fix up debug message in megaraid_abort_and_reset()
  scsi: aic79xx: Fix up NULL command in ahd_done()
  scsi: message: fusion: Initialize return value in mptfc_bus_reset()
  scsi: mpt3sas: Fix loop logic
  scsi: snic: Remove useless code in snic_dr_clean_pending_req()
  scsi: core: Add comment to target_destroy in scsi_host_template
  scsi: core: Clean up scsi_dev_queue_ready()
  scsi: pmcraid: Add missing scsi_device_put() in pmcraid_eh_target_reset_handler()
  scsi: target: core: Fix kernel-doc comment
  scsi: pmcraid: Fix kernel-doc comment
  scsi: core: Handle depopulation and restoration in progress
  scsi: ufs: core: Add support for parsing OPP
  scsi: ufs: core: Add OPP support for scaling clocks and regulators
  scsi: ufs: dt-bindings: common: Add OPP table
  scsi: scsi_debug: Add param to control sdev's allow_restart
  scsi: scsi_debug: Add debugfs interface to fail target reset
  scsi: scsi_debug: Add new error injection type: Reset LUN failed
  ...
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: Allow userspace to request direct submissions</title>
<updated>2023-10-13T19:53:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>michael.christie@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-28T02:09:05+00:00</published>
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This allows userspace to request the fabric drivers do direct submissions
if they support it. With the new device file, submit_type, users can
write 0 - 2 to control how commands are submitted to the backend:

 0 - TARGET_FABRIC_DEFAULT_SUBMIT - LIO will use the fabric's default
     submission type. This is the default for compat.

 1 - TARGET_DIRECT_SUBMIT - LIO will submit the cmd to the backend from the
     calling context if the fabric the cmd was received on supports it,
     else it will use the fabric's default type.

 2 - TARGET_QUEUE_SUBMIT - LIO will queue the cmd to the LIO submission
     workqueue which will pass it to the backend.

When using an NVMe drive and vhost-scsi with direct submission we see
around a 20% improvement in 4K I/Os:

fio jobs        1       2       4       8       10
--------------------------------------------------
defer           94K     190K    394K    770K    890K
direct          128K    252K    488K    950K    -

And when using the queueing mode, we now no longer see issues like where
the iSCSI tx thread is blocked in the block layer waiting on a tag so it
can't respond to a nop or perform I/Os for other LUs.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928020907.5730-6-michael.christie@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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