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    scsi: libsas: Support SATA PHY connection rate unmatch fixing during discovery · cec9771d
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       +----------+             +----------+
       |          |             |          |
       |          |--- 3.0 G ---|          |--- 6.0 G --- SAS  disk
       |          |             |          |
       |          |--- 3.0 G ---|          |--- 6.0 G --- SAS  disk
       |initiator |             |          |
       | device   |--- 3.0 G ---| Expander |--- 6.0 G --- SAS  disk
       |          |             |          |
       |          |--- 3.0 G ---|          |--- 6.0 G --- SATA disk  -->failed to connect
       |          |             |          |
       |          |             |          |--- 6.0 G --- SATA disk  -->failed to connect
       |          |             |          |
       +----------+             +----------+
    
    According to Serial Attached SCSI - 1.1 (SAS-1.1):
    If an expander PHY attached to a SATA PHY is using a physical link rate
    greater than the maximum connection rate supported by the pathway from an
    STP initiator port, a management application client should use the SMP PHY
    CONTROL function (see 10.4.3.10) to set the PROGRAMMED MAXIMUM PHYSICAL
    LINK RATE field of the expander PHY to the maximum connection rate
    supported by the pathway from that STP initiator port.
    
    Currently libsas does not support checking if this condition occurs, nor
    rectifying when it does.
    
    Such a condition is not at all common, however it has been seen on some
    pre-silicon environments where the initiator PHY only supports a 1.5 Gbit
    maximum linkrate, mated with 12G expander PHYs and 3/6G SATA phy.
    
    This patch adds support for checking and rectifying this condition during
    initial device discovery only.
    
    We do support checking min pathway connection rate during revalidation phase,
    when new devices can be detected in the topology. However we do not
    support in the case of the the user reprogramming PHY linkrates, such that
    min pathway condition is not met/maintained.
    
    A note on root port PHY rates:
    The libsas root port PHY rates calculation is broken. Libsas sets the
    rates (min, max, and current linkrate) of a root port to the same linkrate
    of the first PHY member of that same port. In doing so, it assumes that
    all other PHYs which subsequently join the port to have the same
    negotiated linkrate, when they could actually be different.
    
    In practice this doesn't happen, as initiator and expander PHYs are
    normally initialised with consistent min/max linkrates.
    
    This has not caused an issue so far, so leave alone for now.
    
    Tested-by: default avatarJian Luo <luojian5@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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