Re: aoe fails on sparc64

From: Ed L Cashin
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 14:17:28 EST


"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
...
>> OK. 67553994410557440 is 61440 byte swapped in 64 bits, and 30MB is
>> 61440 sectors, so this should be a simple byte order fix.
>
> More strangely, the upper and lower 32-bit words are swapped.
> The bytes within each 32-bit word are swapped correctly.
>
> So the calculation maybe should be something like:
>
> __le32 *p = (__le32 *) &id[100 << 1];
> u32 high32 = le32_to_cpup(p);
> u32 low32 = le32_to_cpup(p + 1);
>
> ssize = (((u64)high32 << 32) | (u64) low32);
>
> But that doesn't make any sense, and even ide_fix_driveid() in
> drivers/ide/ide-iops.c does a le64_to_cpu() for this value:
>
> id->lba_capacity_2 = __le64_to_cpu(id->lba_capacity_2);
>
> I wonder if this is some artifact of how AOE devices encode
> this field when sending it to the client.

Well, an EtherDrive blade just copies the ATA identify response data
into a network packet without looking at it. The vblade, though, has
to set the lba_capacity and lba_capacity_2 fields itself.

The aoe driver looks OK, but it turns out there's a byte swapping bug
in the vblade that could be related if he's running the vblade on a
big endian host (even though he said it was an x86 host), but I
haven't heard back from the original poster yet.

The vblade bug was the omission of swapping the bytes in each short.
The fix below shows what I mean:

diff -urNp a-exp/ata.c b-exp/ata.c
--- a-exp/ata.c 2005-09-01 10:19:11.000000000 -0400
+++ b-exp/ata.c 2005-09-01 10:19:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -55,24 +55,29 @@ setfld(ushort *a, int idx, int len, char
}

static void
-setlba28(ushort *p, vlong lba)
+setlba28(ushort *ident, vlong lba)
{
- p += 60;
- *p++ = lba & 0xffff;
- *p = lba >> 16 & 0x0fffffff;
+ uchar *cp;
+
+ cp = (uchar *) &ident[60];
+ *cp++ = lba;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = (lba >>= 8) & 0xf;
}

static void
-setlba48(ushort *p, vlong lba)
+setlba48(ushort *ident, vlong lba)
{
- p += 100;
- *p++ = lba;
- lba >>= 16;
- *p++ = lba;
- lba >>= 16;
- *p++ = lba;
- lba >>= 16;
- *p = lba;
+ uchar *cp;
+
+ cp = (uchar *) &ident[100];
+ *cp++ = lba;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
+ *cp++ = lba >>= 8;
}

void


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Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>

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