This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

scsi: qla2xxx: Skip IRQ affinity for Target QPairs

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: scsi-qla2xxx-skip-irq-affinity-for-target-qpairs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From d68b850e1bfb9afb24b888a946165a186a710195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:44:59 -0800 Subject: scsi: qla2xxx: Skip IRQ affinity for Target QPairs

From: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com

commit d68b850e1bfb9afb24b888a946165a186a710195 upstream.

Fix co-existence between Block MQ and Target Mode. Block MQ and initiator mode requires midlayer queue mapping to check for IRQ to be affinitized. For target mode, it's not the case.

Fixes: 09620eeb62c41 ("scsi: qla2xxx: Add debug knob for user control workload") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+ Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani himanshu.madhani@cavium.com Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c @@ -6592,9 +6592,14 @@ qla83xx_disable_laser(scsi_qla_host_t *v

static int qla2xxx_map_queues(struct Scsi_Host *shost) { + int rc; scsi_qla_host_t *vha = (scsi_qla_host_t *)shost->hostdata;

- return blk_mq_pci_map_queues(&shost->tag_set, vha->hw->pdev); + if (USER_CTRL_IRQ(vha->hw)) + rc = blk_mq_map_queues(&shost->tag_set); + else + rc = blk_mq_pci_map_queues(&shost->tag_set, vha->hw->pdev); + return rc; }

static const struct pci_error_handlers qla2xxx_err_handler = {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quinn.tran@cavium.com are

queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-retry-switch-command-on-time-out.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-abort-command-deadlock-due-to-spinlock.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-re-login-for-nport-handle-in-use.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-login-state-machine-stuck-at-gpdb.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-for-notify-ack-timeout-handling.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-replace-fcport-alloc-with-qla2x00_alloc_fcport.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-clear-loop-id-after-delete.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-relogin-being-triggered-too-fast.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-skip-irq-affinity-for-target-qpairs.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-scan-state-field-for-fcport.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-prli-state-check.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-system-crash-in-qlt_plogi_ack_unref.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-serialize-gpnid-for-multiple-rscn.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-fix-gpnid-error-processing.patch queue-4.14/scsi-qla2xxx-move-session-delete-to-driver-work-queue.patch