[stgt] RFC [patch] v2 Search /sys/class/bsg/<ctl>/dev for bsg major number.

Mark Harvey markh794 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 16:46:53 CEST 2010


Reworked the patch using scanf/printf - Thanks Nicholas for the
pointer. I knew there had to be a simpler method, it just wasn't
coming to me at the time.

I've attached patch as an attachment to prevent white-space corruption.

Also included inline for easier reading / review.

>From 1215fae094812201ea563cbd45c6a90b4ef1f38f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:22:48 +1000
Subject: Check bsg major number from /sys/class/bsg/<c:t:l>/dev

Signed-off-by: Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com>
---
 usr/bs_sg.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr/bs_sg.c b/usr/bs_sg.c
index dfd49c3..c8559fc 100644
--- a/usr/bs_sg.c
+++ b/usr/bs_sg.c
@@ -269,6 +269,26 @@ static void bs_sg_cmd_complete(int fd, int
events, void *data)
 	cmd->scsi_cmd_done(cmd, io_hdr.status);
 }

+static int get_bsg_major(char *path)
+{
+	FILE *devfd;
+	char majorno[8];
+	char dev[64];
+	char tmp[16];
+	int ch;
+	int i;
+
+	sscanf(path, "/dev/bsg/%s", tmp);
+	sprintf(dev, "/sys/class/bsg/%s/dev", tmp);
+	devfd = fopen(dev, "r");
+	if (!devfd)
+		return -1;
+	fscanf(devfd, "%s:", majorno);
+	fclose(devfd);
+
+	return atoi(majorno);
+}
+
 static int chk_sg_device(char *path)
 {
 	struct stat st;
@@ -287,9 +307,10 @@ static int chk_sg_device(char *path)
 	if (major(st.st_rdev) == SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR)
 		return 0;

-	/* This is not yet defined in include/linux/major.h.. */
-	if (major(st.st_rdev) == 254)
-		return 1;
+	if (!strncmp("/dev/bsg", path, 8)) {
+		if (major(st.st_rdev) == get_bsg_major(path))
+			return 1;
+	}

 	return -1;
 }
-- 
1.6.3.3



On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cheers
>
> I'll look tomorrow when time permits :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22/08/2010, at 9:02, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab at linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 16:07 +1000, Mark Harvey wrote:
>>> Apologies for including this patch as an attachment..
>>> I haven't figured out how to successfully do it from the office.
>>>
>>> Included inline for easier reading / review.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
>>> <nab at linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:22 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:51:54 -0700
>>>>> "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab at linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>>>>>> So it looks like the failure is attributed to my hardcoding of major 254
>>>>>> in the original STGT/BSG patch (note the comment above the conditional
>>>>>> check).  Here is a quick fix:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/usr/bs_sg.c b/usr/bs_sg.c
>>>>>> index cda5cd2..a369570 100644
>>>>>> --- a/usr/bs_sg.c
>>>>>> +++ b/usr/bs_sg.c
>>>>>> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static int chk_sg_device(char *path)
>>>>>>                return 0;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        /* This is not yet defined in include/linux/major.h.. */
>>>>>> -       if (major(st.st_rdev) == 254)
>>>>>> +       if ((major(st.st_rdev) == 254) || (major(st.st_rdev) == 253))
>>>>>>                return 1;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        return -1;
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, seems that nobody uses the bsg support except for you. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> The above patch is still wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> bsg major number can be anything. So you need to get it from
>>>>> /proc/devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you can also get it from /sys/class/bsg/, which is created by
>>>>> kernel so available on any distributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can steal the bsg device handling code from sg3-utils. Maybe
>>>>> someone could create something like libbsg.so
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm indeed, thanks for point this one out.   I will have look at
>>>> adressing for this the BSG efforts with STGT and QEMU-KVM using the
>>>> recommended major:minor output from /sys/class/bsg/$HCTL/dev.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> --nab
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> From a90611630879205ef497821552474e894d463c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:22:48 +1000
>>> Subject: Check bsg major number from /sys/class/bsg/<c:t:l>/dev
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> usr/bs_sg.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>> 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/usr/bs_sg.c b/usr/bs_sg.c
>>> index dfd49c3..7fc9787 100644
>>> --- a/usr/bs_sg.c
>>> +++ b/usr/bs_sg.c
>>> @@ -269,6 +269,34 @@ static void bs_sg_cmd_complete(int fd, int
>>> events, void *data)
>>>    cmd->scsi_cmd_done(cmd, io_hdr.status);
>>> }
>>>
>>> +static int get_bsg_major(char *path)
>>> +{
>>> +    FILE *devfd;
>>> +    char majorno[8];
>>> +    char dev[128];
>>> +    int ch;
>>> +    int i;
>>> +
>>> +    dev[0] = '\0';
>>> +    strncat(dev, "/sys/class/bsg/", 16);
>>> +    strncat(dev, &path[9], 64);
>>> +    strncat(dev, "/dev", 5);
>>> +    devfd = fopen(dev, "r");
>>> +    if (!devfd)
>>> +        return -1;
>>> +    ch = fgetc(devfd);
>>> +    for (i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
>>> +        if (ch == ':') {
>>> +            majorno[i] = '\0';
>>> +            break;
>>> +        }
>>> +        majorno[i] = ch;
>>> +        ch = fgetc(devfd);
>>> +    }
>>> +    fclose(devfd);
>>> +    return atoi(majorno);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> static int chk_sg_device(char *path)
>>> {
>>>    struct stat st;
>>> @@ -287,9 +315,10 @@ static int chk_sg_device(char *path)
>>>    if (major(st.st_rdev) == SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR)
>>>        return 0;
>>>
>>> -    /* This is not yet defined in include/linux/major.h.. */
>>> -    if (major(st.st_rdev) == 254)
>>> -        return 1;
>>> +    if (!strncmp("/dev/bsg", path, 8)) {
>>> +        if (major(st.st_rdev) == get_bsg_major(path))
>>> +            return 0;
>>> +    }
>>>
>>>    return -1;
>>> }
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Here is my updated version of your initial code for the megasas
>> 8708EM2 / SGL passthrough friendly qemu-kvm.git/scsi-bsg:
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/nab/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=075901d9bc1fea670bef84f55806f1bc8b2a5e9e
>>
>> Please feel free to improve your patch using this code and respin
>> another patch for tomo-san to review.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --nab
>>
>>
>
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