kernel/linux.git/drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c, branch v7.1

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

scsi: target: Move LUN stats to per-CPU

2025-11-03T03:06:12+00:00

The atomic use in the main I/O path is causing perf issues when using higher performance backend devices and multiple queues (more than 10 when using vhost-scsi) like with this fio workload: [global] bs=4K iodepth=128 direct=1 ioengine=libaio group_reporting time_based runtime=120 name=standard-iops rw=randread numjobs=16 cpus_allowed=0-15 To fix this issue, move the LUN stats to per CPU. Note: I forgot to include this patch with the delayed/ordered per CPU tracking and per device/device entry per CPU stats. With this patch you get the full 33% improvements when using fast backends, multiple queues and multiple IO submiters. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Reviewed-by: Dmitry Bogdanov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917221338.14813-4-michael.christie@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

Merge patch series "target: TMF and recovery fixes"

2023-03-24T21:39:15+00:00

Mike Christie says: The following patches apply over Martin's 6.4 branches and Linus's tree. They fix a couple regressions in iscsit that occur when there are TMRs executing and a connection is closed. It also includes Dimitry's fixes in related code paths for cmd cleanup when ERL2 is used and the write pending hang during conn cleanup. This version of the patchset brings it back to just regressions and fixes for bugs we have a lot of users hitting. I'm going to fix isert and get it hooked into iscsit properly in a second patchset, because this one was getting so large. I've also moved my cleanup type of patches for a 3rd patchset. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230319015620.96006-1-michael.christie@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: Move sess cmd counter to new struct

2023-03-24T21:32:22+00:00

iSCSI needs to wait on outstanding commands like how SRP and the FC/FCoE drivers do. It can't use target_stop_session() because for MCS support we can't stop the entire session during recovery because if other connections are OK then we want to be able to continue to execute I/O on them. Move the per session cmd counters to a new struct so iSCSI can allocate them per connection. The xcopy code can also just not allocate in the future since it doesn't need to track commands. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230319015620.96006-2-michael.christie@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Maurizio Lombardi Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: core: Add RTPI attribute for target port

2023-03-10T02:29:23+00:00

RELATIVE TARGET PORT IDENTIFIER can be read and configured via configfs: $ echo 0x10 > $TARGET/tpgt_N/rtpi RTPI can be changed only on disabled target ports. Co-developed-by: Roman Bolshakov Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bogdanov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301084512.21956-5-d.bogdanov@yadro.com Reviewed-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: core: Drop device-based RTPI

2023-03-10T02:29:23+00:00

The code is not needed since target port-based RTPI allocation replaced it. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bogdanov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301084512.21956-4-d.bogdanov@yadro.com Reviewed-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: core: Add RTPI field to target port

2023-03-10T02:29:23+00:00

SAM-5 4.6.5.2 (Relative Port Identifier attribute) defines the attribute as unique across SCSI target ports. The change introduces RTPI attribute to se_portal group. The value is unique across all enabled SCSI target ports. It also limits number of SCSI target ports to 65535. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Bogdanov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301084512.21956-2-d.bogdanov@yadro.com Reviewed-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: Drop sess_cmd_lock from I/O path

2020-11-05T03:39:37+00:00

Drop the sess_cmd_lock by: - Removing the sess_cmd_list use from LIO core, because it's been moved to qla2xxx. - Removing sess_tearing_down check in the I/O path. Instead of using that bit and the sess_cmd_lock, we rely on the cmd_count percpu ref. To do this we switch to percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm/percpu_ref_tryget_live. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1604257174-4524-7-git-send-email-michael.christie@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: target: Make transport_flags per device

2020-05-08T02:39:21+00:00

pgr_support and alua_support device attributes show the inverted value of the transport_flags: * TRANSPORT_FLAG_PASSTHROUGH_PGR * TRANSPORT_FLAG_PASSTHROUGH_ALUA These attributes are per device, while the flags are per backend. Rename the transport_flags in backend/transport to transport_flags_default and use this value to initialize the new transport_flags field in the se_device structure. Now data and attribute both are per se_device. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200427150823.15350-4-bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com Reviewed-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen