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authorNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2010-12-17 22:11:26 +0300
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2011-01-14 19:12:29 +0300
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[SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6
LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the following feature set: High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD support. Advanced SCSI feature set: * Persistent Reservations (PRs) * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA) * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S) * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2) * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2) * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx) Multiprotocol target plugins Storage media independence: * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc. Standards compliance: * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720) * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig. [jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.] Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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+>>>>>>>>>> The TCM v4 fabric module script generator <<<<<<<<<<
+
+Greetings all,
+
+This document is intended to be a mini-HOWTO for using the tcm_mod_builder.py
+script to generate a brand new functional TCM v4 fabric .ko module of your very own,
+that once built can be immediately be loaded to start access the new TCM/ConfigFS
+fabric skeleton, by simply using:
+
+ modprobe $TCM_NEW_MOD
+ mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/target/$TCM_NEW_MOD
+
+This script will create a new drivers/target/$TCM_NEW_MOD/, and will do the following
+
+ *) Generate new API callers for drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configs.c logic
+ ->make_nodeacl(), ->drop_nodeacl(), ->make_tpg(), ->drop_tpg()
+ ->make_wwn(), ->drop_wwn(). These are created into $TCM_NEW_MOD/$TCM_NEW_MOD_configfs.c
+ *) Generate basic infrastructure for loading/unloading LKMs and TCM/ConfigFS fabric module
+ using a skeleton struct target_core_fabric_ops API template.
+ *) Based on user defined T10 Proto_Ident for the new fabric module being built,
+ the TransportID / Initiator and Target WWPN related handlers for
+ SPC-3 persistent reservation are automatically generated in $TCM_NEW_MOD/$TCM_NEW_MOD_fabric.c
+ using drivers/target/target_core_fabric_lib.c logic.
+ *) NOP API calls for all other Data I/O path and fabric dependent attribute logic
+ in $TCM_NEW_MOD/$TCM_NEW_MOD_fabric.c
+
+tcm_mod_builder.py depends upon the mandatory '-p $PROTO_IDENT' and '-m
+$FABRIC_MOD_name' parameters, and actually running the script looks like:
+
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target# python tcm_mod_builder.py -p iSCSI -m tcm_nab5000
+tcm_dir: /mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../
+Set fabric_mod_name: tcm_nab5000
+Set fabric_mod_dir:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000
+Using proto_ident: iSCSI
+Creating fabric_mod_dir:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/tcm_nab5000_base.h
+Using tcm_mod_scan_fabric_ops:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../include/target/target_core_fabric_ops.h
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/tcm_nab5000_fabric.c
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/tcm_nab5000_fabric.h
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/tcm_nab5000_configfs.c
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/Kbuild
+Writing file:
+/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git/Documentation/target/../../drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/Kconfig
+Would you like to add tcm_nab5000to drivers/target/Kbuild..? [yes,no]: yes
+Would you like to add tcm_nab5000to drivers/target/Kconfig..? [yes,no]: yes
+
+At the end of tcm_mod_builder.py. the script will ask to add the following
+line to drivers/target/Kbuild:
+
+ obj-$(CONFIG_TCM_NAB5000) += tcm_nab5000/
+
+and the same for drivers/target/Kconfig:
+
+ source "drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/Kconfig"
+
+*) Run 'make menuconfig' and select the new CONFIG_TCM_NAB5000 item:
+
+ <M> TCM_NAB5000 fabric module
+
+*) Build using 'make modules', once completed you will have:
+
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# ls -la drivers/target/tcm_nab5000/
+total 1348
+drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-10-05 03:23 .
+drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2010-10-05 03:22 ..
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282 2010-10-05 03:22 Kbuild
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171 2010-10-05 03:22 Kconfig
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 2010-10-05 03:23 modules.order
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738 2010-10-05 03:22 tcm_nab5000_base.h
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9096 2010-10-05 03:22 tcm_nab5000_configfs.c
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191200 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000_configfs.o
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40504 2010-10-05 03:23 .tcm_nab5000_configfs.o.cmd
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5414 2010-10-05 03:22 tcm_nab5000_fabric.c
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2016 2010-10-05 03:22 tcm_nab5000_fabric.h
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 190932 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000_fabric.o
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40713 2010-10-05 03:23 .tcm_nab5000_fabric.o.cmd
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401861 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000.ko
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 2010-10-05 03:23 .tcm_nab5000.ko.cmd
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 459 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000.mod.c
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23896 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000.mod.o
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22655 2010-10-05 03:23 .tcm_nab5000.mod.o.cmd
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379022 2010-10-05 03:23 tcm_nab5000.o
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 2010-10-05 03:23 .tcm_nab5000.o.cmd
+
+*) Load the new module, create a lun_0 configfs group, and add new TCM Core
+ IBLOCK backstore symlink to port:
+
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# insmod drivers/target/tcm_nab5000.ko
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/iqn.foo/tpgt_1/lun/lun_0
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# cd /sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/iqn.foo/tpgt_1/lun/lun_0/
+target:/sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/iqn.foo/tpgt_1/lun/lun_0# ln -s /sys/kernel/config/target/core/iblock_0/lvm_test0 nab5000_port
+
+target:/sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/iqn.foo/tpgt_1/lun/lun_0# cd -
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# tree /sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/
+/sys/kernel/config/target/nab5000/
+|-- discovery_auth
+|-- iqn.foo
+| `-- tpgt_1
+| |-- acls
+| |-- attrib
+| |-- lun
+| | `-- lun_0
+| | |-- alua_tg_pt_gp
+| | |-- alua_tg_pt_offline
+| | |-- alua_tg_pt_status
+| | |-- alua_tg_pt_write_md
+| | `-- nab5000_port -> ../../../../../../target/core/iblock_0/lvm_test0
+| |-- np
+| `-- param
+`-- version
+
+target:/mnt/sdb/lio-core-2.6.git# lsmod
+Module Size Used by
+tcm_nab5000 3935 4
+iscsi_target_mod 193211 0
+target_core_stgt 8090 0
+target_core_pscsi 11122 1
+target_core_file 9172 2
+target_core_iblock 9280 1
+target_core_mod 228575 31
+tcm_nab5000,iscsi_target_mod,target_core_stgt,target_core_pscsi,target_core_file,target_core_iblock
+libfc 73681 0
+scsi_debug 56265 0
+scsi_tgt 8666 1 target_core_stgt
+configfs 20644 2 target_core_mod
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Future TODO items:
+
+ *) Add more T10 proto_idents
+ *) Make tcm_mod_dump_fabric_ops() smarter and generate function pointer
+ defs directly from include/target/target_core_fabric_ops.h:struct target_core_fabric_ops
+ structure members.
+
+October 5th, 2010
+Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>