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NAME
smartpqi - Microsemi Smart Family SCSI driver
SYNOPSIS
modprobe smartpqi [disable_device_id_wildcards={0|1}] [disable_heartbeat={0|1}]
[disable_ctrl_shutdown={0|1}] [lockup_action={none|reboot|panic}]
DESCRIPTION
smartpqi is a SCSI driver for Microsemi Smart Family controllers.
Supported ioctl() operations
For compatibility with applications written for the cciss(4) and hpsa(4) drivers, many, but not all of
the ioctl(2) operations supported by the hpsa driver are also supported by the smartpqi driver. The data
structures used by these operations are described in the Linux kernel source file
include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h.
CCISS_DEREGDISK, CCISS_REGNEWDISK, CCISS_REGNEWD
These operations all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver to re-scan for new
devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the smartpqi-specific host rescan
attribute.
CCISS_GETPCIINFO
This operation Returns the PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID).
CCISS_GETDRIVVER
This operation returns the driver version in four bytes, encoded as:
(major_version << 28) | (minor_version << 24) |
(release << 16) | revision
CCISS_PASSTHRU
Allows BMIC and CISS commands to be passed through to the controller.
Boot options
disable_device_id_wildcards={0|1}
Disables support for device ID wildcards. The default value is 0.
disable_heartbeat={0|1}
Disables support for the controller's heartbeat check. This parameter is used for debugging
purposes. The default value is 0, leaving the controller's heartbeat check active.
disable_ctrl_shutdown={0|1}
Disables support for shutting down the controller in the event of a controller lockup. The
default value is 0.
lockup_action={none|reboot|panic}
Specifies the action the driver takes when a controller lockup is detected. The default action is
none.
parameter action
─────────────────────────────────────────────
none take controller offline only
reboot reboot the system
panic panic the system
FILES
Device nodes
Logical drives are accessed via the SCSI disk driver (sd), tape drives via the SCSI tape driver (st), and
the RAID controller via the SCSI generic driver (sg), with device nodes named /dev/sd*, /dev/st*, and
/dev/sg*, respectively.
SmartPQI-specific host attribute files in /sys
/sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan
The host rescan attribute is a write-only attribute. Writing to this attribute will cause the
driver to scan for new, changed, or removed devices (e.g., hot-plugged tape drives, or newly
configured or deleted logical drives) and notify the SCSI mid-layer of any changes detected.
Usually this action is triggered automatically by configuration changes, so the user should not
normally have to write to this file. Doing so may be useful when hot-plugging devices such as
tape drives or entire storage boxes containing pre-configured logical drives.
/sys/class/scsi_host/host*/version
The host version attribute is a read-only attribute. This attribute contains the driver version
and the controller firmware version.
For example:
$ cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host1/version
driver: 1.1.2-126
firmware: 1.29-112
/sys/class/scsi_host/host*/lockup_action
The host lockup_action attribute is a read/write attribute. This attribute will cause the driver
to perform a specific action in the unlikely event that a controller lockup has been detected.
See OPTIONS above for an explanation of the lockup_action values.
SmartPQI-specific disk attribute files in /sys
In the file specifications below, c stands for the number of the appropriate SCSI controller, b is the
bus number, t the target number, and l is the logical unit number (LUN).
/sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/raid_level
The raid_level attribute is read-only. This attribute contains the RAID level of each logical
drive.
For example:
$ cat /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device/raid_level
RAID 0
/sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/sas_address
The sas_address attribute is read-only. This attribute contains the unique identifier of the
disk.
For example:
$ cat /sys/class/scsi_disk/1:0:3:0/device/sas_address
0x5001173d028543a2
/sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/ssd_smart_path_enabled
The ssd_smart_path_enabled attribute is read-only. This attribute is for ioaccel-enabled volumes.
(Ioaccel is an alternative driver submission path that allows the driver to send I/O requests
directly to backend SCSI devices, bypassing the controller firmware. This results in an increase
in performance. This method is used for HBA disks and for logical volumes comprised of SSDs.)
Contains 1 if ioaccel is enabled for the volume and 0 otherwise.
For example:
$ cat /sys/class/scsi_disk/1:0:3:0/device/ssd_smart_path_enabled
0
VERSIONS
The smarpqi driver was added in Linux 4.9.
NOTES
Configuration
To configure a Microsemi Smart Family controller, refer to the User Guide for the controller, which can
be found by searching for the specific controller at ⟨https://storage.microsemi.com/⟩.
SEE ALSO
cciss(4), hpsa(4), sd(4), st(4) Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss in the Linux kernel source tree.
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