On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.peter...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Shaun" == Shaun Tancheff <sh...@tancheff.com> writes:
>
> Shaun,
>
> Shaun> SATA drives may support write same via SCT. This is useful for
> Shaun> setting the drive contents to a specific pattern (0's).
>
> index 428c03e..c5c8424 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
> #include <linux/pr.h>
> +#include <linux/ata.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/unaligned.h>
>
> No ATA stuff in sd.c, please.
>
>
> @@ -2761,24 +2762,26 @@ static void sd_read_write_same(struct scsi_disk
> *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer)
> {
> struct scsi_device *sdev = sdkp->device;
>
> - if (sdev->host->no_write_same) {
> - sdev->no_write_same = 1;
> -
> - return;
> - }
> -
> if (scsi_report_opcode(sdev, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE, INQUIRY) < 0) {
> - /* too large values might cause issues with arcmsr */
> - int vpd_buf_len = 64;
> -
> sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1;
>
> /* Disable WRITE SAME if REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION
> * CODES is unsupported and the device has an ATA
> * Information VPD page (SAT).
> */
>
> The above comment tells you how to enable WRITE SAME in libata's
> SCSI-ATA translation.
>
>
> - if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, vpd_buf_len))
> + if (!scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x89, buffer, SD_BUF_SIZE))
>
> That vpd_buf_len is intentional.
Got it. Looking at it again all of hacking here is not required.
Posting a cleaner v2 without this.
Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
--
Shaun Tancheff
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