[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 10/17] libmultipath: add code to get vendor specific vpd data
Benjamin Marzinski
bmarzins at redhat.com
Mon Feb 10 20:49:42 UTC 2020
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 02:49:38PM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 12:58 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > This adds the wildcard 'g' for multipath and path formatted printing,
> > which returns extra data from a device's vendor specific vpd
> > page. The
> > specific vendor vpd page to use, and the vendor/product id to decode
> > it
> > can be set in the hwentry with vpd_vendor_pg and vpd_vendor_id. It
> > can
> > be configured in the devices section of multipath.conf with the
> > vpd_vendor parameter. Currently, the only devices that use this are
> > HPE
> > 3PAR arrays, to return the Volume Name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > libmultipath/config.c | 2 ++
> > libmultipath/config.h | 1 +
> > libmultipath/dict.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > libmultipath/discovery.c | 40
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > libmultipath/hwtable.c | 1 +
> > libmultipath/print.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > libmultipath/propsel.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++
> > libmultipath/propsel.h | 1 +
> > libmultipath/structs.h | 15 ++++++++++++++
> > multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 8 ++++++++
> > 10 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libmultipath/structs.h b/libmultipath/structs.h
> > index 1c32a799..6c03ee5d 100644
> > --- a/libmultipath/structs.h
> > +++ b/libmultipath/structs.h
> > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> > #define HOST_NAME_LEN 16
> > #define SLOT_NAME_SIZE 40
> > #define PRKEY_SIZE 19
> > +#define VPD_DATA_SIZE 128
> >
> > #define SCSI_VENDOR_SIZE 9
> > #define SCSI_PRODUCT_SIZE 17
> > @@ -221,6 +222,18 @@ enum all_tg_pt_states {
> > ALL_TG_PT_ON = YNU_YES,
> > };
> >
> > +enum vpd_vendor_ids {
> > + VPD_VP_UNDEF,
> > + VPD_VP_HP3PAR,
> > + VPD_VP_ARRAY_SIZE, /* This must remain the last entry */
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct vpd_vendor_page {
> > + int pg;
> > + const char *name;
> > +};
> > +extern struct vpd_vendor_page vpd_vendor_pages[VPD_VP_ARRAY_SIZE];
> > +
> > struct sg_id {
> > int host_no;
> > int channel;
> > @@ -255,6 +268,7 @@ struct path {
> > char rev[PATH_REV_SIZE];
> > char serial[SERIAL_SIZE];
> > char tgt_node_name[NODE_NAME_SIZE];
> > + char vpd_data[VPD_DATA_SIZE];
>
>
> Hm, 128 more bytes per path for a rarely-used property... do we need to
> store this in "struct path"? Can't we simply fetch that information
> when someone requests it with the %g format wildcard? It doesn't matter
> much today as "struct path" is really thick already, but I have hopes
> to make it a bit leaner some day.
Well, the thought was that this information (which should help map the
path to a physical array) would most often be wanted when things were
going badly, and you might not be able to access the device.
-Ben
> Regards
> Martin
>
> --
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