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diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
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-ATA over Ethernet is a network protocol that provides simple access to
-block storage on the LAN.
-
- http://support.coraid.com/documents/AoEr11.txt
-
-The EtherDrive (R) HOWTO for 2.6 and 3.x kernels is found at ...
-
- http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO.html
-
-It has many tips and hints! Please see, especially, recommended
-tunings for virtual memory:
-
- http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.19
-
-The aoetools are userland programs that are designed to work with this
-driver. The aoetools are on sourceforge.
-
- http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/
-
-The scripts in this Documentation/aoe directory are intended to
-document the use of the driver and are not necessary if you install
-the aoetools.
-
-
-CREATING DEVICE NODES
-
- Users of udev should find the block device nodes created
- automatically, but to create all the necessary device nodes, use the
- udev configuration rules provided in udev.txt (in this directory).
-
- There is a udev-install.sh script that shows how to install these
- rules on your system.
-
- There is also an autoload script that shows how to edit
- /etc/modprobe.d/aoe.conf to ensure that the aoe module is loaded when
- necessary. Preloading the aoe module is preferable to autoloading,
- however, because AoE discovery takes a few seconds. It can be
- confusing when an AoE device is not present the first time the a
- command is run but appears a second later.
-
-USING DEVICE NODES
-
- "cat /dev/etherd/err" blocks, waiting for error diagnostic output,
- like any retransmitted packets.
-
- "echo eth2 eth4 > /dev/etherd/interfaces" tells the aoe driver to
- limit ATA over Ethernet traffic to eth2 and eth4. AoE traffic from
- untrusted networks should be ignored as a matter of security. See
- also the aoe_iflist driver option described below.
-
- "echo > /dev/etherd/discover" tells the driver to find out what AoE
- devices are available.
-
- In the future these character devices may disappear and be replaced
- by sysfs counterparts. Using the commands in aoetools insulates
- users from these implementation details.
-
- The block devices are named like this:
-
- e{shelf}.{slot}
- e{shelf}.{slot}p{part}
-
- ... so that "e0.2" is the third blade from the left (slot 2) in the
- first shelf (shelf address zero). That's the whole disk. The first
- partition on that disk would be "e0.2p1".
-
-USING SYSFS
-
- Each aoe block device in /sys/block has the extra attributes of
- state, mac, and netif. The state attribute is "up" when the device
- is ready for I/O and "down" if detected but unusable. The
- "down,closewait" state shows that the device is still open and
- cannot come up again until it has been closed.
-
- The mac attribute is the ethernet address of the remote AoE device.
- The netif attribute is the network interface on the localhost
- through which we are communicating with the remote AoE device.
-
- There is a script in this directory that formats this information in
- a convenient way. Users with aoetools should use the aoe-stat
- command.
-
- root@makki root# sh Documentation/aoe/status.sh
- e10.0 eth3 up
- e10.1 eth3 up
- e10.2 eth3 up
- e10.3 eth3 up
- e10.4 eth3 up
- e10.5 eth3 up
- e10.6 eth3 up
- e10.7 eth3 up
- e10.8 eth3 up
- e10.9 eth3 up
- e4.0 eth1 up
- e4.1 eth1 up
- e4.2 eth1 up
- e4.3 eth1 up
- e4.4 eth1 up
- e4.5 eth1 up
- e4.6 eth1 up
- e4.7 eth1 up
- e4.8 eth1 up
- e4.9 eth1 up
-
- Use /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist (or better, the driver
- option discussed below) instead of /dev/etherd/interfaces to limit
- AoE traffic to the network interfaces in the given
- whitespace-separated list. Unlike the old character device, the
- sysfs entry can be read from as well as written to.
-
- It's helpful to trigger discovery after setting the list of allowed
- interfaces. The aoetools package provides an aoe-discover script
- for this purpose. You can also directly use the
- /dev/etherd/discover special file described above.
-
-DRIVER OPTIONS
-
- There is a boot option for the built-in aoe driver and a
- corresponding module parameter, aoe_iflist. Without this option,
- all network interfaces may be used for ATA over Ethernet. Here is a
- usage example for the module parameter.
-
- modprobe aoe_iflist="eth1 eth3"
-
- The aoe_deadsecs module parameter determines the maximum number of
- seconds that the driver will wait for an AoE device to provide a
- response to an AoE command. After aoe_deadsecs seconds have
- elapsed, the AoE device will be marked as "down". A value of zero
- is supported for testing purposes and makes the aoe driver keep
- trying AoE commands forever.
-
- The aoe_maxout module parameter has a default of 128. This is the
- maximum number of unresponded packets that will be sent to an AoE
- target at one time.
-
- The aoe_dyndevs module parameter defaults to 1, meaning that the
- driver will assign a block device minor number to a discovered AoE
- target based on the order of its discovery. With dynamic minor
- device numbers in use, a greater range of AoE shelf and slot
- addresses can be supported. Users with udev will never have to
- think about minor numbers. Using aoe_dyndevs=0 allows device nodes
- to be pre-created using a static minor-number scheme with the
- aoe-mkshelf script in the aoetools.
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/autoload.sh b/Documentation/aoe/autoload.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-# set aoe to autoload by installing the
-# aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/
-
-f=/etc/modprobe.d/aoe.conf
-
-if test ! -r $f || test ! -w $f; then
- echo "cannot configure $f for module autoloading" 1>&2
- exit 1
-fi
-
-grep major-152 $f >/dev/null
-if [ $? = 1 ]; then
- echo alias block-major-152 aoe >> $f
- echo alias char-major-152 aoe >> $f
-fi
-
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/status.sh b/Documentation/aoe/status.sh
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-#! /bin/sh
-# collate and present sysfs information about AoE storage
-#
-# A more complete version of this script is aoe-stat, in the
-# aoetools.
-
-set -e
-format="%8s\t%8s\t%8s\n"
-me=`basename $0`
-sysd=${sysfs_dir:-/sys}
-
-# printf "$format" device mac netif state
-
-# Suse 9.1 Pro doesn't put /sys in /etc/mtab
-#test -z "`mount | grep sysfs`" && {
-test ! -d "$sysd/block" && {
- echo "$me Error: sysfs is not mounted" 1>&2
- exit 1
-}
-
-for d in `ls -d $sysd/block/etherd* 2>/dev/null | grep -v p` end; do
- # maybe ls comes up empty, so we use "end"
- test $d = end && continue
-
- dev=`echo "$d" | sed 's/.*!//'`
- printf "$format" \
- "$dev" \
- "`cat \"$d/netif\"`" \
- "`cat \"$d/state\"`"
-done | sort
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt b/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt
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-There is a potential for deadlock when allocating a struct sk_buff for
-data that needs to be written out to aoe storage. If the data is
-being written from a dirty page in order to free that page, and if
-there are no other pages available, then deadlock may occur when a
-free page is needed for the sk_buff allocation. This situation has
-not been observed, but it would be nice to eliminate any potential for
-deadlock under memory pressure.
-
-Because ATA over Ethernet is not fragmented by the kernel's IP code,
-the destructor member of the struct sk_buff is available to the aoe
-driver. By using a mempool for allocating all but the first few
-sk_buffs, and by registering a destructor, we should be able to
-efficiently allocate sk_buffs without introducing any potential for
-deadlock.
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh b/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh
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-# install the aoe-specific udev rules from udev.txt into
-# the system's udev configuration
-#
-
-me="`basename $0`"
-
-# find udev.conf, often /etc/udev/udev.conf
-# (or environment can specify where to find udev.conf)
-#
-if test -z "$conf"; then
- if test -r /etc/udev/udev.conf; then
- conf=/etc/udev/udev.conf
- else
- conf="`find /etc -type f -name udev.conf 2> /dev/null`"
- if test -z "$conf" || test ! -r "$conf"; then
- echo "$me Error: no udev.conf found" 1>&2
- exit 1
- fi
- fi
-fi
-
-# find the directory where udev rules are stored, often
-# /etc/udev/rules.d
-#
-rules_d="`sed -n '/^udev_rules=/{ s!udev_rules=!!; s!\"!!g; p; }' $conf`"
-if test -z "$rules_d" ; then
- rules_d=/etc/udev/rules.d
-fi
-if test ! -d "$rules_d"; then
- echo "$me Error: cannot find udev rules directory" 1>&2
- exit 1
-fi
-sh -xc "cp `dirname $0`/udev.txt $rules_d/60-aoe.rules"
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt
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-# These rules tell udev what device nodes to create for aoe support.
-# They may be installed along the following lines. Check the section
-# 8 udev manpage to see whether your udev supports SUBSYSTEM, and
-# whether it uses one or two equal signs for SUBSYSTEM and KERNEL.
-#
-# ecashin@makki ~$ su
-# Password:
-# bash# find /etc -type f -name udev.conf
-# /etc/udev/udev.conf
-# bash# grep udev_rules= /etc/udev/udev.conf
-# udev_rules="/etc/udev/rules.d/"
-# bash# ls /etc/udev/rules.d/
-# 10-wacom.rules 50-udev.rules
-# bash# cp /path/to/linux-2.6.xx/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt \
-# /etc/udev/rules.d/60-aoe.rules
-#
-
-# aoe char devices
-SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="discover", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
-SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="err", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0440"
-SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="interfaces", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
-SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="revalidate", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
-SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", KERNEL=="flush", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
-
-# aoe block devices
-KERNEL=="etherd*", GROUP="disk"