1 Release Date : Tue. Jul 26, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
2 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
4 Current Version : 00.00.05.40-rc1
5 Old Version : 00.00.05.38-rc1
6 1. Fix FastPath I/O to work with degraded RAID 1.
7 2. Add .change_queue_depth support.
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9 Release Date : Wed. May 11, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
10 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
12 Current Version : 00.00.05.38-rc1
13 Old Version : 00.00.05.34-rc1
14 1. Remove MSI-X black list, use MFI_REG_STATE.ready.msiEnable.
15 2. Remove un-used function megasas_return_cmd_for_smid().
16 3. Check MFI_REG_STATE.fault.resetAdapter in megasas_reset_fusion().
17 4. Disable interrupts/free_irq() in megasas_shutdown().
18 5. Fix bug where AENs could be lost in probe() and resume().
19 6. Convert 6,10,12 byte CDB's to 16 byte CDB for large LBA's for FastPath
21 7. Add 1078 OCR support.
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23 Release Date : Thu. Feb 24, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
24 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
26 Current Version : 00.00.05.34-rc1
27 Old Version : 00.00.05.29-rc1
28 1. Fix some failure gotos from megasas_probe_one(), etc.
29 2. Add missing check_and_restore_queue_depth() call in
30 complete_cmd_fusion().
31 3. Enable MSI-X before calling megasas_init_fw().
32 4. Call tasklet_schedule() even if outbound_intr_status == 0 for MFI based
34 5. Fix megasas_probe_one() to clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE in msi control
35 register in kdump kernel.
36 6. Fix megasas_get_cmd() to only print "Command pool empty" if
37 megasas_dbg_lvl is set.
38 7. Fix megasas_build_dcdb_fusion() to not filter by TYPE_DISK.
39 8. Fix megasas_build_dcdb_fusion() to use io_request->LUN[1] field.
40 9. Add MR_EVT_CFG_CLEARED to megasas_aen_polling().
41 10. Fix tasklet_init() in megasas_init_fw() to use instancet->tasklet.
42 11. Fix fault state handling in megasas_transition_to_ready().
43 12. Fix max_sectors setting for IEEE SGL's.
44 13. Fix iMR OCR support to work correctly.
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46 Release Date : Tues. Dec 14, 2010 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
47 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
49 Current Version : 00.00.05.29-rc1
50 Old Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
51 1. Rename megaraid_sas.c to megaraid_sas_base.c.
52 2. Update GPL headers.
53 3. Add MSI-X support and 'msix_disable' module parameter.
54 4. Use lowest memory bar (for SR-IOV VF support).
55 5. Add struct megasas_instance_temlate changes, and change all code to use
58 irqreturn_t (*service_isr )(int irq, void *devp);
59 void (*tasklet)(unsigned long);
60 u32 (*init_adapter)(struct megasas_instance *);
61 u32 (*build_and_issue_cmd) (struct megasas_instance *,
63 void (*issue_dcmd) (struct megasas_instance *instance,
64 struct megasas_cmd *cmd);
66 6. Add code to support MegaRAID 9265/9285 controllers device id (0x5b).
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68 1 Release Date : Thur. May 03, 2010 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
69 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
72 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
73 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1
75 1. Add the Online Controller Reset (OCR) to the Driver.
76 OCR is the new feature for megaraid_sas driver which
77 will allow the fw to do the chip reset which will not
78 affact the OS behavious.
80 To add the OCR support, driver need to do:
81 a). reset the controller chips -- Xscale and Gen2 which
82 will change the function calls and add the reset function
83 related to this two chips.
85 b). during the reset, driver will store the pending cmds
86 which not returned by FW to driver's pending queue. Driver
87 will re-issue those pending cmds again to FW after the OCR
90 c). In driver's timeout routine, driver will report to
91 OS as reset. Also driver's queue routine will block the
92 cmds until the OCR finished.
94 d). in Driver's ISR routine, if driver get the FW state as
95 state change, FW in Failure status and FW support online controller
96 reset (OCR), driver will start to do the controller reset.
98 e). In driver's IOCTL routine, the application cmds will wait for the
99 OCR to finish, then issue the cmds to FW.
101 f). Before driver kill adapter, driver will do last chance of
102 OCR to see if driver can bring back the FW.
104 2. Add the support update flag to the driver to tell LSI megaraid_sas
105 application which driver will support the device update. So application
106 will not need to do the device update after application add/del the device
108 3. In driver's timeout routine, driver will do three time reset if fw is in
109 failed state. Driver will kill adapter if can't bring back FW after the
110 this three times reset.
111 4. Add the input parameter max_sectors to 1MB support to our GEN2 controller.
112 customer can use the input paramenter max_sectors to add 1MB support to GEN2
115 1 Release Date : Thur. Oct 29, 2009 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
116 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
119 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1
120 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.12
122 1. Add the pad_0 in mfi frame structure to 0 to fix the
123 context value larger than 32bit value issue.
125 2. Add the logic drive list to the driver. Driver will
126 keep the logic drive list internal after driver load.
128 3. driver fixed the device update issue after get the AEN
129 PD delete/ADD, LD add/delete from FW.
131 1 Release Date : Tues. July 28, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
132 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
135 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.12
136 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.10
138 1. Change the AEN sys PD update from scsi_scan to
139 scsi_add_device and scsi_remove_device.
140 2. Takeoff the debug print-out in aen_polling routine.
142 1 Release Date : Thur. July 02, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
143 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
146 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.10
147 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.08
149 1. Add the 3 mins timeout during the controller initialize.
150 2. Add the fix for 64bit sense date errors.
152 1 Release Date : Tues. May 05, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
153 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
156 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.08
157 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.06
159 1. Add the fix of pending in FW after deleted the logic drives.
160 2. Add the fix of deallocating memory after get pdlist.
162 1 Release Date : Tues. March 26, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
163 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
166 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.06
167 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.04
169 1. Add the fix of the driver cmd empty fix of the driver cmd empty.
170 2. Add the fix of the driver MSM AEN CMD cause the system slow.
172 1 Release Date : Tues. March 03, 2009 10:12:45 PST 2009 -
173 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
176 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.04
177 3 Older Version : 00.00.04.01
179 1. Add the Tape drive fix to the driver: If the command is for
180 the tape device, set the pthru timeout to the os layer timeout value.
182 2. Add Poll_wait mechanism to Gen-2 Linux driv.
183 In the aen handler, driver needs to wakeup poll handler similar to
184 the way it raises SIGIO.
186 3. Add new controller new SAS2 support to the driver.
188 4. Report the unconfigured PD (system PD) to OS.
190 5. Add the IEEE SGL support to the driver
192 6. Reasign the Application cmds to SAS2 controller
194 1 Release Date : Thur.July. 24 11:41:51 PST 2008 -
195 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
199 2 Current Version : 00.00.04.01
200 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.22
202 1. Add the new controller (0078, 0079) support to the driver
203 Those controllers are LSI's next generatation(gen2) SAS controllers.
205 1 Release Date : Mon.June. 23 10:12:45 PST 2008 -
206 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
210 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.22
211 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.20
213 1. Add shutdown DCMD cmd to the shutdown routine to make FW shutdown proper.
214 2. Unexpected interrupt occurs in HWR Linux driver, add the dumy readl pci flush will fix this issue.
216 1 Release Date : Mon. March 10 11:02:31 PDT 2008 -
217 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
221 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.20-RC1
222 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.16
224 1. Rollback the sense info implementation
225 Sense buffer ptr data type in the ioctl path is reverted back
226 to u32 * as in previous versions of driver.
228 2. Fixed the driver frame count.
229 When Driver sent wrong frame count to firmware. As this
230 particular command is sent to drive, FW is seeing continuous
231 chip resets and so the command will timeout.
233 3. Add the new controller(1078DE) support to the driver
234 and Increase the max_wait to 60 from 10 in the controller
235 operational status. With this max_wait increase, driver will
236 make sure the FW will finish the pending cmd for KDUMP case.
238 1 Release Date : Thur. Nov. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
239 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
243 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.16
244 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.15
246 1. Increased MFI_POLL_TIMEOUT_SECS to 60 seconds from 10. FW may take
247 a max of 60 seconds to respond to the INIT cmd.
249 1 Release Date : Fri. Sep. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
250 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
254 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.15
255 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.14
257 1. Added module parameter "poll_mode_io" to support for "polling"
258 (reduced interrupt operation). In this mode, IO completion
259 interrupts are delayed. At the end of initiating IOs, the
260 driver schedules for cmd completion if there are pending cmds
261 to be completed. A timer-based interrupt has also been added
262 to prevent IO completion processing from being delayed
263 indefinitely in the case that no new IOs are initiated.
265 1 Release Date : Fri. Sep. 07 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
266 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
270 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.14
271 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.13
273 1. Setting the max_sectors_per_req based on max SGL supported by the
274 FW. Prior versions calculated this value from controller info
275 (max_sectors_1, max_sectors_2). For certain controllers/FW,
276 this was resulting in a value greater than max SGL supported
277 by the FW. Issue was first reported by users running LUKS+XFS
278 with megaraid_sas. Thanks to RB for providing the logs and
279 duplication steps that helped to get to the root cause of the
280 issue. 2. Increased MFI_POLL_TIMEOUT_SECS to 60 seconds from
281 10. FW may take a max of 60 seconds to respond to the INIT
284 1 Release Date : Fri. June. 15 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
285 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
289 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.13
290 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.12
292 1. Added the megasas_reset_timer routine to intercept cmd timeout and throttle io.
294 On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:44 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
295 It looks like megaraid_sas at least needs this to throttle its commands
296 > as they begin to time out. The code keeps the existing transport
297 > template use of eh_timed_out (and allows the transport to override the
298 > host if they both have this callback).
302 1 Release Date : Sat May. 12 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
303 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
307 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.12
308 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.11
310 1. When MegaSAS driver receives reset call from OS, driver waits in reset
311 routine for max 3 minutes for all pending command completion. Now driver will
312 call completion routine every 5 seconds from the reset routine instead of
313 waiting for depending on cmd completion from isr path.
315 1 Release Date : Mon Apr. 30 10:25:52 PST 2007 -
316 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
320 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.11
321 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.09
323 1. Memory Manager for IOCTL removed for 2.6 kernels.
324 pci_alloc_consistent replaced by dma_alloc_coherent. With this
325 change there is no need of memory manager in the driver code
327 On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
328 > I suspect all this horror is due to stupidity in the DMA API.
330 > pci_alloc_consistent() just goes and assumes GFP_ATOMIC, whereas
331 > the caller (megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl) would have been perfectly happy
334 > I bet this fixes it
336 It does, but the DMA API was expanded to cope with this exact case, so
337 use dma_alloc_coherent() directly in the megaraid code instead. The dev
338 is just &pci_dev->dev.
340 James <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
342 3. SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is not supported by FW and thus blocked by driver.
343 4. Hibernation support added
344 5. Performing diskdump while running IO in RHEL 4 was failing. Fixed.
346 1 Release Date : Fri Feb. 09 14:36:28 PST 2007 -
347 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
351 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.09
352 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.08
354 i. Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
356 The driver now waits for 10 seconds to elapse instead of 5 (as in
357 previous release) to resume IO.
359 1 Release Date : Mon Feb. 05 11:35:24 PST 2007 -
360 (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
363 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.08
364 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.07
366 i. Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
368 Fix: The driver is now throttling IO.
369 Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to
370 process commands within timeout period. If number of retries
371 is 2 or greater,the driver stops sending cmd to FW temporarily. IO is
372 resumed if pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 5 seconds has elapsed
373 from the time cmds were last sent to FW.
375 ii. FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured
376 as WriteBack. The OS may send "SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE" cmd when Logical
377 Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back
378 mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time
379 Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle
380 the cmd and return success without sending down to FW.
382 1 Release Date : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 -
383 Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
384 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.07
385 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.06
387 i. bios_param entry added in scsi_host_template that returns disk geometry
390 1 Release Date : Fri Oct 20 11:21:32 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
391 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.06
392 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.05
394 1. Added new memory management module to support the IOCTL memory allocation. For IOCTL we try to allocate from the memory pool created during driver initialization. If mem pool is empty then we allocate at run time.
395 2. Added check in megasas_queue_command and dpc/isr routine to see if we have already declared adapter dead
396 (hw_crit_error=1). If hw_crit_error==1, now we donot accept any processing of pending cmds/accept any cmd from OS
398 1 Release Date : Mon Oct 02 11:21:32 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
399 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.05
400 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.04
402 i. PCI_DEVICE macro used
404 Convert the pci_device_id-table of the megaraid_sas-driver to the PCI_DEVICE-macro, to safe some lines.
406 - Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
407 ii. All compiler warnings removed
408 iii. megasas_ctrl_info struct reverted to 3.02 release
409 iv. Default value of megasas_dbg_lvl set to 0
410 v. Removing in megasas_exit the sysfs entry created for megasas_dbg_lvl
411 vi. In megasas_teardown_frame_pool(), cmd->frame was passed instead of
412 cmd->sense to pci_pool_free. Fixed. Bug was pointed out by
415 1 Release Date : Wed Sep 13 14:22:51 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
416 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.04
417 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.03
419 i. Added Reboot notify
420 ii. Reduced by 1 max cmds sent to FW from Driver to make the reply_q_sz same
421 as Max Cmds FW can support
423 1 Release Date : Tue Aug 22 16:33:14 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
424 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.03
425 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.02
427 i. Send stop adapter to FW & Dump pending FW cmds before declaring adapter dead.
428 New varible added to set dbg level.
429 ii. Disable interrupt made as fn pointer as they are different for 1068 / 1078
430 iii. Frame count optimization. Main frame can contain 2 SGE for 64 bit SGLs and
432 iv. Tasklet added for cmd completion
433 v. If FW in operational state before firing INIT, now we send RESET Flag to FW instead of just READY. This is used to do soft reset.
434 vi. megasas_ctrl_prop structure updated (based on FW struct)
435 vii. Added print : FW now in Ready State during initialization
437 1 Release Date : Sun Aug 06 22:49:52 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
438 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.02
439 3 Older Version : 00.00.03.01
441 i. Added FW tranistion state for Hotplug scenario
443 1 Release Date : Sun May 14 22:49:52 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
444 2 Current Version : 00.00.03.01
445 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.04
447 i. Added support for ZCR controller.
449 New device id 0x413 added.
451 ii. Bug fix : Disable controller interrupt before firing INIT cmd to FW.
453 Interrupt is enabled after required initialization is over.
454 This is done to ensure that driver is ready to handle interrupts when
455 it is generated by the controller.
457 -Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
459 1 Release Date : Wed Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
460 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
461 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.04
463 i. Remove superflous instance_lock
465 gets rid of the otherwise superflous instance_lock and avoids an unsave
466 unsynchronized access in the error handler.
468 - Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
471 1 Release Date : Wed Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
472 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
473 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.04
475 i. Support for 1078 type (ppc IOP) controller, device id : 0x60 added.
476 During initialization, depending on the device id, the template members
477 are initialized with function pointers specific to the ppc or
480 -Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
482 1 Release Date : Fri Feb 03 14:16:25 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro
483 <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
484 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
485 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.02
486 i. Register 16 byte CDB capability with scsi midlayer
488 "Ths patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the
489 megaraid_sas controlled hardware with the scsi midlayer. All megaraid_sas
490 hardware supports 16 byte CDB's."
492 -Joshua Giles <joshua_giles@dell.com>
494 1 Release Date : Mon Jan 23 14:09:01 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
495 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.02
496 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.01
498 i. New template defined to represent each family of controllers (identified by processor used).
499 The template will have defintions that will be initialised to appropritae values for a specific family of controllers. The template definition has four function pointers. During driver initialisation the function pointers will be set based on the controller family type. This change is done to support new controllers that has different processors and thus different register set.
501 -Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
503 1 Release Date : Mon Dec 19 14:36:26 PST 2005 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
504 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.00-rc4
505 3 Older Version : 00.00.02.01
507 i. Code reorganized to remove code duplication in megasas_build_cmd.
509 "There's a lot of duplicate code megasas_build_cmd. Move that out of the different codepathes and merge the reminder of megasas_build_cmd into megasas_queue_command"
511 - Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
513 ii. Defined MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 for code paths that handles 32 bit applications in 64 bit systems.
515 "MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE can't be redefined if CONFIG_COMPAT is set, we need to define a MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 define so native binaries continue to work"
517 - Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>