Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/18] scsi: scsi_error: Introduce new error handle mechanism

From: haowenchao (C)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2023 - 12:59:04 EST


On 2023/9/1 17:41, Wenchao Hao wrote:
It's unbearable for systems with large scale scsi devices share HBAs to
block all devices' IOs when handle error commands, we need a new error
handle mechanism to address this issue.

I consulted about this issue a year ago, the discuss link can be found in
refenence. Hannes replied about why we have to block the SCSI host
then perform error recovery kindly. I think it's unnecessary to block
SCSI host for all drivers and can try a small level recovery(LUN based for
example) first to avoid block the SCSI host.

The new error handle mechanism introduced in this patchset has been
developed and tested with out self developed hardware since one year
ago, now we want this mechanism can be used by more drivers.

Drivers can decide if using the new error handle mechanism and how to
handle error commands when scsi_device are scanned,the new mechanism
makes SCSI error handle more flexible.

Hi, Hannes and Mike, would you help take a look at these changes?


SCSI error recovery strategy after blocking host's IO is mainly
following steps:

- LUN reset
- Target reset
- Bus reset
- Host reset

Some drivers did not implement callbacks for host reset, it's unnecessary
to block host's IO for these drivers. For example, smartpqi only registered
device reset, if device reset failed, it's meaningless to fallback to target
reset, bus reset or host reset any more, because these steps would also
failed.

Here are some drivers we concerned:(there are too many kinds of drivers
to figure out, so here I just list some drivers I am familiar with)

+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| drivers | device_reset | target_reset | bus_reset | host_reset |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| mpt3sas | Y | Y | N | Y |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| smartpqi | Y | N | N | N |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| megaraidsas | N | Y | N | Y |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| virtioscsi | Y | N | N | N |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| iscsi_tcp | Y | Y | N | N |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+
| hisisas | Y | Y | N | N |
+-------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+------------+

For LUN based error handle, when scsi command is classified as error,
we would block the scsi device's IO and try to recover this scsi
device, if still can not recover all error commands, it might
fallback to target or host level recovery.

It's same for target based error handle, but target based error handle
would block the scsi target's IO then try to recover the error commands
of this target.

The first patch defines basic framework to support LUN/target based error
handle mechanism, three key operations are abstracted which are:
- add error command
- wake up error handle
- block IOs when error command is added and recoverying.

Drivers can implement these three function callbacks and setup to SCSI
middle level; I also add a general LUN/target based error handle strategy
which can be called directly from drivers to implement LUN/tartget based
error handle.

The changes of SCSI middle level's error handle are tested with scsi_debug
which support single LUN error injection, the scsi_debug patches can be
found in reference, following scenarios are tested.

Scenario1: LUN based error handle is enabled:
+-----------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| lun reset | TUR | Desired result |
+ --------- + ------- + ------------------------------------------------------+
| success | success | retry or finish with EIO(may offline disk) |
+ --------- + ------- + ------------------------------------------------------+
| success | fail | fallback to host recovery, retry or finish with |
| | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+ --------- + ------- + ------------------------------------------------------+
| fail | NA | fallback to host recovery, retry or finish with |
| | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+ --------- + ------- + ------------------------------------------------------+

Scenario2: target based error handle is enabled:
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| lun reset | TUR | target reset | TUR | Desired result |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| success | success | NA | NA | retry or finish with |
| | | | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| success | fail | success | success | retry or finish with |
| | | | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | success | success | retry or finish with |
| | | | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | success | fail | fallback to host recovery, |
| | | | | retry or finish with EIO(may |
| | | | | offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | fail | NA | fallback to host recovery, |
| | | | | retry or finish with EIO(may |
| | | | | offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+

Scenario3: both LUN and target based error handle are enabled:
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| lun reset | TUR | target reset | TUR | Desired result |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| success | success | NA | NA | retry or finish with |
| | | | | EIO(may offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| success | fail | success | success | lun recovery fallback to |
| | | | | target recovery, retry or |
| | | | | finish with EIO(may offline |
| | | | | disk |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | success | success | lun recovery fallback to |
| | | | | target recovery, retry or |
| | | | | finish with EIO(may offline |
| | | | | disk |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | success | fail | lun recovery fallback to |
| | | | | target recovery, then fall |
| | | | | back to host recovery, retry |
| | | | | or fhinsi with EIO(may |
| | | | | offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+
| fail | NA | fail | NA | lun recovery fallback to |
| | | | | target recovery, then fall |
| | | | | back to host recovery, retry |
| | | | | or fhinsi with EIO(may |
| | | | | offline disk) |
+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+------------------------------+

References: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20230815122316.4129333-1-haowenchao2@xxxxxxxxxx/
References: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/71e09bb4-ff0a-23fe-38b4-fe6425670efa@xxxxxxxxxx/

Wenchao Hao (19):
scsi: scsi_error: Define framework for LUN/target based error handle
scsi: scsi_error: Move complete variable eh_action from shost to sdevice
scsi: scsi_error: Check if to do reset in scsi_try_xxx_reset
scsi: scsi_error: Add helper scsi_eh_sdev_stu to do START_UNIT
scsi: scsi_error: Add helper scsi_eh_sdev_reset to do lun reset
scsi: scsi_error: Add flags to mark error handle steps has done
scsi: scsi_error: Add helper to handle scsi device's error command list
scsi: scsi_error: Add a general LUN based error handler
scsi: core: increase/decrease target_busy without check can_queue
scsi: scsi_error: Add helper to handle scsi target's error command list
scsi: scsi_error: Add a general target based error handler
scsi: scsi_debug: Add param to control LUN bassed error handler
scsi: scsi_debug: Add param to control target based error handle
scsi: mpt3sas: Add param to control LUN based error handle
scsi: mpt3sas: Add param to control target based error handle
scsi: smartpqi: Add param to control LUN based error handle
scsi: megaraid_sas: Add param to control target based error handle
scsi: virtio_scsi: Add param to control LUN based error handle
scsi: iscsi_tcp: Add param to control LUN based error handle

drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 20 +
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 20 +
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 28 +
drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 24 +
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 756 ++++++++++++++++++++--
drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 23 +-
drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h | 18 +
drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 14 +
drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 16 +-
include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 97 +++
include/scsi/scsi_eh.h | 8 +
include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 2 -
12 files changed, 963 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)