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Stefan Weinhuber 8e09f21574 [S390] dasd: add hyper PAV support to DASD device driver, part 1
Parallel access volumes (PAV) is a storage server feature, that allows
to start multiple channel programs on the same DASD in parallel. It
defines alias devices which can be used as alternative paths to the
same disk. With the old base PAV support we only needed rudimentary
functionality in the DASD device driver. As the mapping between base
and alias devices was static, we just had to export an identifier
(uid) and could leave the combining of devices to external layers
like a device mapper multipath.
Now hyper PAV removes the requirement to dedicate alias devices to
specific base devices. Instead each alias devices can be combined with
multiple base device on a per request basis. This requires full
support by the DASD device driver as now each channel program itself
has to identify the target base device.
The changes to the dasd device driver and the ECKD discipline are:
- Separate subchannel device representation (dasd_device) from block
  device representation (dasd_block). Only base devices are block
  devices.
- Gather information about base and alias devices and possible
  combinations.
- For each request decide which dasd_device should be used (base or
  alias) and build specific channel program.
- Support summary unit checks, which allow the storage server to
  upgrade / downgrade between base and hyper PAV at runtime (support
  is mandatory).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:28 +01:00
Stefan Weinhuber 20c644680a [PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed
information about certain problems in the DASD I/O.  This information can be
used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:17 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 8b2eb664ce [PATCH] s390: merge cmb into dasdc
dasd_cmd just implements three ioctls which are wrappers around functionality
in the core kernel or other modules.  When merging those into dasd_mod they
just add 22 lines of code which is far less than the amount of code removed in
the last two patches, and which doesn't spill into another 4k pages when build
modular, while removing a 128lines module.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:17 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 49d9c81a69 [PATCH] s390: revert dasd eer module
Revert dasd eer module until we have a common understanding of how the
interface should be.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:12 -08:00
Stefan Weinhuber 12c3a54848 [PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting module
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed
information about certain problems in the DASD I/O.  This information can be
used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00