RE: scanning for LUNs

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:15 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: scanning for LUNs
> 
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:12 -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Here is the code snippet for scanning LUNS (drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c in function
> > __scsi_scan_target()):
> >
> >         /*
> >          * Scan LUN 0, if there is some response, scan further. Ideally, we
> >          * would not configure LUN 0 until all LUNs are scanned.
> >          */
> >         res = scsi_probe_and_add_lun(starget, 0, &bflags, NULL, rescan, NULL);
> >         if (res == SCSI_SCAN_LUN_PRESENT || res ==
> SCSI_SCAN_TARGET_PRESENT) {
> >                 if (scsi_report_lun_scan(starget, bflags, rescan) != 0)
> >
> >
> > So, if we don't get a response while scanning LUN0, we will not use
> > scsi_report_lun_scan().
> > On Hyper-V, the scsi emulation on the host does not treat LUN0 as
> > anything special and we
> > could have situations where the only device under a scsi controller is
> > at a location other than 0
> > or 1. In this case the standard LUN scanning code in Linux fails to
> > detect this device. Is this
> > behaviour expected? Why is LUN0 treated differently here. Looking at
> > the scsi spec, I am not sure
> > if this is what is specified. Any help/guidance will be greatly
> > appreciated.
> 
> Why don't you describe the problem.  We can't scan randomly a bunch of
> LUNs hoping for a response (the space is 10^19).  SAM thinks you use
> LUNW for this, but that's not well supported.  We can't annoy USB
> devices by probing with REPORT LUNS, so conventionally most arrays
> return something for LUN0 even if they don't actually have one (That's
> what the peripheral qualifier codes are supposed to be about).  We
> translate PQ1 and PQ2 to SCSI_SCAN_TARGET_PRESENT, which means no LUN,
> but there is a target to scan here.
> 
> If you're sending back an error to an INQUIRY to LUN0, then you're out
> of spec.  The SCSI standards say:
> 
>         SPC3 6.4.1: In response to an INQUIRY command received by an
>         incorrect logical unit, the SCSI target device shall return the
>         INQUIRY data with the peripheral qualifier set to the value
>         defined in 6.4.2. The INQUIRY command shall return CHECK
>         CONDITION status only when the device server is unable to return
>         the requested INQUIRY data

Thanks James. I will further investigate the issue on our platform.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> James
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 


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