Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#252 closed enhancement

add disks on megaraid sas controller to DEVICESCAN — at Version 1

Reported by: Alex Samorukov Owned by: Alex Samorukov
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: all Version: 6.0
Keywords: linux, megaraid Cc:

Description (last modified by Alex Samorukov)

I decided to add autoscan functionality for drives on MegaSAS controllers. Main motivation for this was that devices on such controllers having random numbers, from 0 to ~250 and it is very annoying to write smartd configuration (i used shell + MegaCli in the past). There is no ioctl documentation provided, so i did patch based on MegaCli tool behaviour (with strace and LD_PRELAOD for IOCTL) and FreeBSD driver sources which contain similar code. What this patch is doing:

1) In autoscan mode, if megaraid_sas_ioctl is found in /proc/devices it is trying to identify SCSI host number with megasas controllers using sysfs (/sys/class/scsi_host/hostN/proc_name). If sysfs is not mounted it scans first 16 buses. I believe that native tool do the same.
2) If controller is found i am getting device list using driver ioctl and adding them to device list

Code changes:
1) megaraid.h updated to include constant/structures to get drive list
2) set_fd added to linux_smart_device. I need this to override is_open check in megaraid.
3) -d megaraid allows to specify devices in pseudo /dev/bus/N format. We can`t easy get drive name from the bus number, and also it is possible that drive name is not exists at all (unconfigured RAID).
4) Added private functions get_dev_megasas, megasas_dcmd_cmd and megasas_pd_get_list to the linux_smart_interface.
5) I disabled "MegaRAID SAT layer is reportedly buggy" error. Everything was fixed after chk_cond check was added. I am unable to reproduce problem with different hardware.
6) I added set_info().dev_type = strprintf("megaraid,%d", tgt) to set device number in type. Without it --scan will show just -"d megaraid" devices. Not sure if this is correct.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Alex Samorukov, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Owner: changed from somebody to Alex Samorukov
Status: newassigned
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