[nvmewin] Handling NVMe Passthrough IOCTLs

Saikrishna Ravikanti saikrishna.ravikanti at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 17:16:47 PDT 2014


Thanks for your inputs.
I am opening the handle to disk. I'll try with \\.\ScsiXxx and get back to
you.

Regards,
Sai


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Jeff Glass <akyros000 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  If he has a handle to the disk device he should be able to send
> IOCTL_SCSI_GET_ADDRESS to determine the ScsiXxx name of the HBA device.
> The "PortNumber" field of the returned SCSI_ADDRESS structure is the Xxx
> portion of \\.\ScsiXxx.
>
>
>
>
> On 3/21/2014 1:11 PM, Robles, Raymond C wrote:
>
>  Agreed with Jeff… but you will also want to make sure you are opening
> the correct ScsiXxx handle. This varies depending on the system. Many times
> it’s Scsi1or Scsi2, but essentially, you’ll have to walk through opening
> handles and upon opening one successfully, seeing the Identify succeed.
>
>
>
> *From:* nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [
> mailto:nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org<nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org>]
> *On Behalf Of *Jeff Glass
> *Sent:* Friday, March 21, 2014 9:09 AM
> *To:* nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
> *Subject:* Re: [nvmewin] Handling NVMe Passthrough IOCTLs
>
>
>
> You said "Note: I am getting proper handle from CreateFile for my NVMe
> Device."  Did you open \\.\PhysicalDriveXxxx or \\.\ScsiXxxx?
>
> You need to open a handle to the adapter (i.e. Scsi) and not the disk
> (i.e. PhysicalDrive) for IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT.  That's the most common
> mistake I've seen that causes this error.
>
>
> On 3/21/201 8:57 AM, Saikrishna Ravikanti wrote:
>
>  Hi Team,
>
>
>
> By referring PT_IOCTL.Doc and WDK SPTI Sample, I am developing an
> application to send IOCTLs
>
> using _NVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL structure.
>
>
>
> I am facing some problem.
>
> DeviceIoControl routine returning Error code 1 (Incorrect Function).
>
>
>
> Code shown below :
>
>
>
> PNVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL pInBuffer = NULL;
>
> PNVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL pOutBuffer = NULL;
>
> ULONG   ByteSizeTX =4096;
>
>
>
> /* Allocate input buffer to accommodate size of NVME_PASS_THRUGH_IOCTL
> only */
>
> InputBufLen = sizeof(NVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL);
>
> pInBuffer = (PNVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL) malloc(InputBufLen);
>
> /* Allocate output buffer to accommodate size of NVME_PASS_THRUGH_IOCTL
> and data */
>
> OutputBufLen = sizeof(NVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL)+ ByteSizeTX - 1;
>
> pOutBuffer = (PNVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL) malloc(OutputBufLen);
>
> if (pInBuffer == NULL || pOutBuffer == NULL)
>
> return;
>
>
>
>             /* Zero out the buffers */
>
> memset(pInBuffer, 0, InputBufLen);
>
> memset(pOutBuffer, 0, OutputBufLen);
>
>
>
> pInBuffer->SrbIoCtrl.HeaderLength = sizeof(SRB_IO_CONTROL);
>
> memcpy((UCHAR*)(&pInBuffer->SrbIoCtrl.Signature[0]), NVME_SIG_STR,
> NVME_SIG_STR_LEN);
>
> pInBuffer->SrbIoCtrl.Timeout = NVME_PT_TIMEOUT;
>
> pInBuffer->SrbIoCtrl.ControlCode = (ULONG)NVME_PASS_THROUGH_SRB_IO_CODE;
>
> pInBuffer->SrbIoCtrl.Length = InputBufLen - sizeof(SRB_IO_CONTROL);
>
>
>
> pInBuffer->NVMeCmd[0]=ADMIN_IDENTIFY;
>
> pInBuffer->NVMeCmd[1]=0;
>
> pInBuffer->NVMeCmd[10]= 1; //Return corresponding controller data structure
>
>
>
> pInBuffer->DataBufferLen = 0;
>
> pInBuffer->ReturnBufferLen = sizeof(NVME_PASS_THROUGH_IOCTL) + ByteSizeTX
> - 1;
>
>
>
>    status = DeviceIoControl(
>
>                           fileHandle,                           /* Handle
> to \\.\scsi device via CreateFile */
>
>                           IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT,   /* IO control function to
> a miniport driver */
>
>                           pInBuffer       ,                      /* Input
> buffer with data sent to driver */
>
>                           InputBufLen,                       /* Length of
> data sent to driver (in bytes) */
>
>                           pOutBuffer,                  /* Output buffer
> with data received from driver */
>
>                           OutputBufLen,                       /* Length of
> data received from driver */
>
>                           &Count,                                  /*
> Bytes placed in DataBuffer */
>
>                           NULL);
>
>
>
> Kindly let me know your valuable inputs about this behavior.
>
>
>
> Note: I am getting proper handle from CreateFile for my NVMe Device.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sai
>
>
>
>
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