vm-sol11_x64-6.0.3.200
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The latest patch(es) : sfha-sol11_x64-6.0.5 

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Release type: Patch
Release date: 2013-12-18
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 Applies to one or more of the following products:
VirtualStore 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64
Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64
Storage Foundation 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64
Storage Foundation Cluster File System 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64
Storage Foundation HA 6.0.1 On Solaris 11 X64

 Obsolete patches, incompatibilities, superseded patches, or other requirements:

This patch is obsolete. It is superseded by: Release date
sfha-sol11_x64-6.0.5 2014-04-15

This patch supersedes the following patches: Release date
vm-sol11_x64-6.0.3.100 (obsolete) 2013-09-13

This patch requires: Release date
sfha-sol11_x64-6.0.3 (obsolete) 2013-02-01

 Fixes the following incidents:
2853712, 2860207, 2863672, 2863708, 2876865, 2892499, 2892571, 2892590, 2892621, 2892630, 2892643, 2892650, 2892660, 2892665, 2892682, 2892684, 2892689, 2892698, 2892702, 2892716, 2922770, 2922798, 2924117, 2924188, 2924207, 2930399, 2933467, 2933468, 2933469, 2934259, 2940447, 2941167, 2941193, 2941226, 2941234, 2941237, 2941252, 2942166, 2944708, 2944710, 2944714, 2944717, 2944722, 2944724, 2944725, 2944727, 2944729, 2944741, 2962257, 2964567, 2974870, 2976946, 2976956, 2976974, 2978189, 2979767, 2983679, 3004823, 3004852, 3005921, 3006262, 3011391, 3011444, 3020087, 3025973, 3026288, 3027482, 3090670, 3099508, 3133012, 3140411, 3150893, 3156719, 3159096, 3254227, 3254229, 3254427, 3280555, 3294641, 3294642, 3358311, 3358313, 3358342, 3358345, 3358346, 3358347, 3358348, 3358350, 3358351, 3358352, 3358353, 3358354, 3358357, 3358367, 3358368, 3358369, 3358370, 3358371, 3358372, 3358374, 3358376, 3358377, 3358379, 3358380, 3358381, 3358382, 3358404, 3358405, 3358407, 3358408, 3358414, 3358416, 3358417, 3358418, 3358420, 3358423, 3358429, 3358430, 3358433, 3366688, 3366703, 3367778, 3368234, 3368236, 3371422, 3374166, 3376953, 3387405, 3387417

 Patch ID:
None.

Readme file
                          * * * READ ME * * *
                * * * Veritas Volume Manager 6.0.3 * * *
                        * * * Hot Fix 200 * * *
                         Patch Date: 2013-12-13


This document provides the following information:

   * PATCH NAME
   * OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH
   * PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH
   * BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH
   * SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
   * DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
   * INSTALLATION PRE-REQUISITES
   * INSTALLING THE PATCH
   * REMOVING THE PATCH


PATCH NAME
----------
Veritas Volume Manager 6.0.3 Hot Fix 200


OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH
----------------------------------------
Solaris 11 X86


PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH
------------------------------
VRTSvxvm


BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH
-----------------------------------
   * Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 6.0.1
   * Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 6.0.1
   * Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1
   * Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0.1
   * Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.0.1
   * Symantec VirtualStore 6.0.1


SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
Patch ID: 6.0.300.200
* 3358311 (3152769) DMP Path failover takes time on Solaris LDOM environment when 1 I/O domain is down.
* 3358313 (3194358) The continuous messages displayed in the syslog file with EMC
not-ready (NR) LUNs.
* 3358342 (2724067) Enhance vxdisksetup CLI to specify disk label content to label all corresponding paths for DMP device
* 3358345 (2091520) The ability to move the configdb placement from one disk to another 
using "vxdisk set <disk> keepmeta=[always|skip|default]" command.
* 3358346 (3353211) Once the BCV device came back to RW state, the OPEN mode of one of the paths is changing from NDELAY to NORMAL, while other path is still retaining the NDELAY mode.
* 3358347 (3057554) vxdisk shred fails with EFI disks on Solaris X86 platform.
* 3358348 (2665425) Enhance the vxdisk -px <attribute> list CLI interface to report vxvm disk attribute information
* 3358350 (3189830) To have provision for -f option in mirror operation of vxdiskadm command
* 3358351 (3158320) [VxVM] command "vxdisk -px REPLICATED list" shows the same as "vxdisk -px REPLICATED_TYPE list"
* 3358352 (3326964) VxVM hangs in CVM environments in presence of FMR operations.
* 3358353 (3271315) vxdisk shred fails on Solaris X86 platform for SMI Sliced format disks
* 3358354 (3332796) Getting message: VxVM vxisasm INFO V-5-1-0 seeking block #... while initializing disk that is not ASM disk.
* 3358357 (3277258) BAD TRAP panic in vxio:vol_mv_pldet_callback
* 3358367 (3230148) Clustered Volume Manager (CVM) hangs during split brain testing.
* 3358368 (3249264) Disks get into 'ERROR' state after being destroyed with the command 'vxdg destroy <dg-name>'
* 3358369 (3250369) vxdisk scandisks causes endless messages in syslog.
* 3358370 (2921147) udid_mismatch flag is absent on a clone disk when source disk
is unavailable.
* 3358371 (3125711) Secondary node panics it is rebooted while reclaim was in progress on primary.
* 3358372 (3156295) The permission and owner of /dev/raw/raw# device is wrong after reboot.
* 3358374 (3237503) System hang may happen after creating space-optimized snapshot with large size cache volume.
* 3358376 (3116990) Syslog message is filled with lots of extra write protected message
* 3358377 (3199398) Output of the command "vxdmpadm pgrrereg" depends on the order of DMP node list where the terminal output depends on the last LUN (DMP node)
* 3358379 (1783763) In a Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) environment, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon may 
hang during a configuration change operation.
* 3358380 (2152830) A diskgroup (DG) import fails with a non-descriptive error message when 
multiple copies (clones) of the same device exist and the original devices are 
either offline or not available.
* 3358381 (2859470) The Symmetrix Remote Data Facility R2 (SRDF-R2) with the Extensible Firmware 
Interface (EFI) label is not recognized by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and 
goes in an error state.
* 3358382 (3086627) "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command fails with error: VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-16282 Cannot retrieve stats: Bad address
* 3358404 (3021970) Secondary Master panic while running IO load running
* 3358405 (3026977) DR (Dynamic Reconfiguration) option with 'vxdiskadm' removes Luns even which are not in Failing/Unusable state.
* 3358407 (3107699) [VxVM]system panic cause from vxdmp when system shutdown
* 3358408 (3115206) Solaris 11 ldom, VxVM 6.0.3 with ZFS root; panic in DMP module.
* 3358414 (3139983) Failed I/Os from SCSI are retried only on very few paths to a LUN instead of utilizing all the available paths
* 3358416 (3312162) Verification of data on DR site reports differences even though replication is up-to-date.
* 3358417 (3325122) In CVR environment, creation of stripe-mirror volume with logtype=dcm failed
* 3358418 (3283525) DCO corruption after volume resize leads to vxconfigd hang
* 3358420 (3236773) Multiple error messages of format  "vxdmp V-5-3-0 dmp_indirect_ioctl: Ioctl 
Failed" can be seen during set/get failover-mode for EMC ALUA disk array.
* 3358423 (3194305) Replication status goes in paused state since the vxstart_vvr start does not start the vxnetd daemon automatically on secondary side.
* 3358429 (3300418) Volume operations (vxassist, vxsnap..) creates IO request to all drives in DG
* 3358430 (3258276) DMP Paths keep huge layer open number which causes ssd driver's total open number overflows (0x80000000)
* 3358433 (3301470) All CVR nodes panic repeatedly due to null pointer dereference in vxio
* 3366688 (2957645) vold restart on linux caused terminal flooded with cvm related error messages.
* 3366703 (3056311) For release < 5.1 SP1, allow disk initialization with CDS format using raw geometry.
* 3367778 (3152274) "dd" command to SRDF-R2 (write disable)device hang, and leads "vm" command hang for long time. but no issue with OS devices
* 3368234 (3236772) resizesrl and resizevol operations are getting failed intermittently, with error "vradmin ERROR Lost connection to host"
* 3368236 (3327842) "vradmin verifydata" failed with "Lost connection to <host>; terminating command execution."
* 3371422 (3087893) EMC TPD emcpower names are changing every reboot with VxVM
* 3374166 (3325371) Panic occurs in the vol_multistepsio_read_source() function when snapshots are 
used.
* 3376953 (3372724) Failed install of VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) panics the server.
* 3387405 (3019684) IO hang on master while SRL is about to overflow
* 3387417 (3107741) vxrvg snapdestroy fails with "Transaction aborted waiting for io drain" error and vxconfigd hangs for around 45 minutes
Patch ID: 6.0.300.100
* 2892702 (2567618) The VRTSexplorer dumps core in vxcheckhbaapi/print_target_map_entry.
* 3090670 (3090667) The system panics or hangs while executing the "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" 
command as part of Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) Storage Foundation (SF) 
discovery.
* 3099508 (3087893) EMC TPD emcpower names are changing every reboot with VxVM
* 3133012 (3160973) vxlist hangs while detecting foreign disk format on EFI disk.
* 3140411 (2959325) The vxconfigd(1M) daemon dumps core while performing the disk group move 
operation.
* 3150893 (3119102) Support LDOM Live Migration with fencing enabled
* 3156719 (2857044) System crash on voldco_getalloffset when trying to resize filesystem.
* 3159096 (3146715) 'Rlinks' do not connect with NAT configurations on Little Endian Architecture.
* 3254227 (3182350) VxVM volume creation or size increase hangs
* 3254229 (3063378) VM commands are slow when Read Only disks are presented
* 3254427 (3182175) "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command can report incorrect File System usage data
* 3280555 (2959733) Handling device path reconfiguration incase the device paths are moved across LUNs or enclosures to prevent vxconfigd coredump.
* 3294641 (3107741) vxrvg snapdestroy fails with "Transaction aborted waiting for io drain" error and vxconfigd hangs for around 45 minutes
* 3294642 (3019684) IO hang on master while SRL is about to overflow
Patch ID: 6.0.300.000
* 2853712 (2815517) vxdg adddisk allows mixing of clone & non-clone disks in a DiskGroup.
* 2860207 (2859470) EMC SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) R2 disk with EFI label is not 
recognized by VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) and its shown in error state.
* 2863672 (2834046) NFS migration failed due to device reminoring.
* 2863708 (2836528) Unable to grow LUN dynamically on Solaris x86 using "vxdisk resize" command.
* 2876865 (2510928) The extended attributes reported by "vxdisk -e list" for the EMC SRDF luns are 
reported as "tdev mirror", instead of "tdev srdf-r1".
* 2892499 (2149922) Record the diskgroup import and deport events in syslog
* 2892571 (1856733) Support for FusionIO on Solaris x64
* 2892590 (2779580) Secondary node gives configuration error (no Primary RVG) after reboot of master node on Primary site.
* 2892621 (1903700) Removing mirror using vxassist does not work.
* 2892630 (2742706) Panic due to mutex not being released in vxlo_open
* 2892643 (2801962) Growing a volume takes significantly large time when the volume has version 20 
DCO attached to it.
* 2892650 (2826125) VxVM script daemon is terminated abnormally on its invocation.
* 2892660 (2000585) vxrecover doesn't start remaining volumes if one of the volumes is removed
during vxrecover command run.
* 2892665 (2807158) On Solaris platform, sometimes system can hang during VM 
upgrade or patch installation.
* 2892682 (2837717) "vxdisk(1M) resize" command fails if 'da name' is specified.
* 2892684 (1859018) "link detached from volume" warnings are displayed when a linked-breakoff snapshot is created
* 2892689 (2836798) In VxVM, resizing simple EFI disk fails and causes system panic/hang.
* 2892698 (2851085) DMP doesn't detect implicit LUN ownership changes for some of the dmpnodes
* 2892702 (2567618) VRTSexplorer coredumps in checkhbaapi/print_target_map_entry.
* 2892716 (2753954) When a cable is disconnected from one port of a dual-port FC 
HBA, the paths via another port are marked as SUSPECT PATH.
* 2922770 (2866997) VxVM Disk initialization fails as an un-initialized variable gets an unexpected 
value after OS patch installation.
* 2922798 (2878876) vxconfigd dumps core in vol_cbr_dolog() due to race between two threads processing requests from the same client.
* 2924117 (2911040) Restore from a cascaded snapshot leaves the volume in
unusable state if any cascaded snapshot is in detached state.
* 2924188 (2858853) After master switch, vxconfigd dumps core on old master.
* 2924207 (2886402) When re-configuring devices, vxconfigd hang is observed.
* 2930399 (2930396) The vxdmpasm command (in 5.1SP1 release) and the vxdmpraw 
command (in 6.0 release) do not work on Solaris platform.
* 2933467 (2907823) If the user removes the lun at the storage layer and at VxVM layer beforehand, 
DMP DR tool is unable to clean-up cfgadm (leadville) stack.
* 2933468 (2916094) Enhancements have been made to the Dynamic Reconfiguration Tool(DR Tool) to 
create a separate log file every time DR Tool is started, display a message if 
a command takes longer time, and not to list the devices controlled by TPD 
(Third Party Driver) in 'Remove Luns' option of DR Tool.
* 2933469 (2919627) Dynamic Reconfiguration tool should be enhanced to remove LUNs feasibly in bulk.
* 2934259 (2930569) The LUNs in 'error' state in output of 'vxdisk list' cannot be removed through
DR(Dynamic Reconfiguration) Tool.
* 2940447 (2940446) Full fsck hangs on I/O in VxVM when cache object size is very large
* 2941167 (2915751) Solaris machine panics during dynamic lun expansion of a CDS disk.
* 2941193 (1982965) vxdg import fails if da-name is based on naming scheme which is different from the prevailing naming scheme on the host
* 2941226 (2915063) Rebooting VIS array having mirror volumes, master node panicked and other nodes CVM FAULTED
* 2941234 (2899173) vxconfigd hang after executing command "vradmin stoprep"
* 2941237 (2919318) The I/O fencing key value of data disk are different and abnormal in a VCS cluster with I/O fencing.
* 2941252 (1973983) vxunreloc fails when dco plex is in DISABLED state
* 2942166 (2942609) Message displayed when user quits from Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations is
shown as error message.
* 2944708 (1725593) The 'vxdmpadm listctlr' command has to be enhanced to print the count of device
paths seen through the controller.
* 2944710 (2744004) vxconfigd is hung on the VVR secondary node during VVR configuration.
* 2944714 (2833498) vxconfigd hangs while reclaim operation is in progress on volumes having instant snapshots
* 2944717 (2851403) System panic is seen while unloading "vxio" module. This happens whenever VxVM uses SmartMove feature and the "vxportal" module gets reloaded (for e.g. during VxFS package upgrade)
* 2944722 (2869594) Master node panics due to corruption if space optimized snapshots are refreshed and 'vxclustadm setmaster' is used to select master.
* 2944724 (2892983) vxvol dumps core if new links are added while the operation is in progress.
* 2944725 (2910043) Avoid order 8 allocation by vxconfigd in node reconfig.
* 2944727 (2919720) vxconfigd core in rec_lock1_5()
* 2944729 (2933138) panic in voldco_update_itemq_chunk() due to accessing invalid buffer
* 2944741 (2866059) Improving error messages hit during vxdisk resize operation
* 2962257 (2898547) vradmind on VVR Secondary Site dumps core, when Logowner Service Group on VVR 
(Veritas Volume Replicator) Primary Site is shuffled across its CVM (Clustered 
Volume Manager) nodes.
* 2964567 (2964547) About DMP message - cannot load module 'misc/ted'.
* 2974870 (2935771) In VVR environment, RLINK disconnects after master switch.
* 2976946 (2919714) On a THIN lun, vxevac returns 0 without migrating unmounted VxFS volumes.
* 2976956 (1289985) vxconfigd core dumps upon running "vxdctl enable" command
* 2976974 (2875962) During the upgrade of VRTSaslapm package, a conflict is encountered with VRTSvxvm package because an APM binary is included in VRTSvxvm package which is already installed
* 2978189 (2948172) Executing "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command can result in panic.
* 2979767 (2798673) System panics in voldco_alloc_layout() while creating volume with instant DCO
* 2983679 (2970368) Enhance handling of SRDF-R2 Write-Disabled devices in DMP.
* 3004823 (2692012) vxevac move error message needs to be enhanced to be less generic and give clear message for failure.
* 3004852 (2886333) vxdg join command should not allow mixing clone & non-clone disks in a DiskGroup
* 3005921 (1901838) Incorrect setting of Nolicense flag can lead to dmp database inconsistency.
* 3006262 (2715129) Vxconfigd hangs during Master takeover in a CVM (Clustered Volume Manager) 
environment.
* 3011391 (2965910) Volume creation with vxassist using "-o ordered alloc=<disk-class>" dumps core.
* 3011444 (2398416) vxassist dumps core while creating volume after adding attribute "wantmirror=ctlr" in default vxassist rulefile
* 3020087 (2619600) Live migration of virtual machine having SFHA/SFCFSHA stack with data disks fencing enabled, causes service groups configured on virtual machine to fault.
* 3025973 (3002770) Accessing NULL pointer in dmp_aa_recv_inquiry() caused system panic.
* 3026288 (2962262) Uninstall of dmp fails in presence of other multipathing solutions
* 3027482 (2273190) Incorrect setting of UNDISCOVERED flag can lead to database inconsistency


DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
This patch fixes the following Symantec incidents:

Patch ID: 6.0.300.200

* 3358311 (Tracking ID: 3152769)

SYMPTOM:
DMP (Dynamic MultiPathing) Path failover takes time on Solaris LDOM environment
when 1 I/O domain is 
down.

DESCRIPTION:
DMP provides SCSI bypass framework, wherein a SCSI buffer is created and
directly sent to HBA bypassing 
OS SCSI driver layer. It has its own merits in performance and diagnostic
purposes in situations of I/O 
errors. However, in Solaris LDOM environments, when one I/O domain goes down, it
takes time as 
validation causes multiple timeouts in LDOM virtual disk client driver layer.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to not use the SCSI bypass framework in LDOM environment.

* 3358313 (Tracking ID: 3194358)

SYMPTOM:
Continuous messages in syslog with EMC not-ready (NR) Logical units.

Messages from syslog (/var/adm/messages):

May 10 18:40:43 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: 
/pci@1e, 600000/SUNW, jfca@2/fp@0, 0/ssd@w5006048c5368e580, 16c (ssd144):
May 10 18:40:43 drive offline
May 10 18:40:43 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: 
/pci@1e, 600000/SUNW, jfca@2/fp@0, 0/ssd@w5006048c536979a0, 127 (ssd392):
May 10 18:40:43 drive offline
May 10 18:40:43  scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: 
/pci@1e, 600000/SUNW, jfca@2/fp@0, 0/ssd@w5006048c5368e5a0, 16b (ssd270):
May 10 18:40:43 drive offline
May 10 18:40:43 i/o error occurred (errno=0x5) on dmpnode 201/0x1c0

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM tries to online the EMC not-ready (NR) logical units. As part of the disk
online process, it tries to read the disk label from the logical unit. Because
the logical unit is NR the I/O fails. The failure messages are displayed in the
syslog file.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to skip the disk online for the EMC NR LUNs.

* 3358342 (Tracking ID: 2724067)

SYMPTOM:
Assume format(1) is run on a disk to change the label type from EFI to SMI 
prior to invoking vxdisksetup. This used to result in failure of vxdisksetup.

DESCRIPTION:
Prior to this enhancement, vxdisksetup used to initialize the disk with 
specified 
VxVM layout (e.g. simple, sliced or cdsdisk) using the pre-existing label type 
(e.g. smi or efi). We used to require users to change the label to the desired 
label type using format(1) prior to invoking vxdisksetup.  When format(1) is 
run on a single physical path to change the label type from EFI to SMI, format
(1) used to update the device special file on that single physical path only; 
this resulted in i/o failure on the remaining physical paths and thereby 
causing vxdisksetup to fail.

RESOLUTION:
vxdisksetup is enhanced such that label type can be specified along with VxVM 
disk layout.  vxdisksetup invokes format(1) on a single physical path to change 
label type.  Then, it invokes dd(1) on the remaining physical paths during the 
very early phase. In turn, dd(1) invokes open(2) on each of the remaining 
physical paths. open(2) updates device special files on each of those physical 
paths to reflect the latest label type.

* 3358345 (Tracking ID: 2091520)

SYMPTOM:
Customers cannot selectively disable VxVM configuration copies on the disks 
associated with a disk group.

DESCRIPTION:
An enhancement is required to enable customers to selectively disable VxVM 
configuration copies on disks associated with a disk group.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to provide a "keepmeta=skip" option to the vxdiskset(1M) 
command to allow a customer to selectively disable VxVM configuration copies on 
disks that are a part of the disk group.

* 3358346 (Tracking ID: 3353211)

SYMPTOM:
A. After EMC Symmetrix BCV (Business Continuance Volume) device switches to read-
write mode, continuous vxdmp (Veritas Dynamic Multi Pathing) error messages 
flood syslog as shown below:

NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1061 dmp_restore_node: The path 18/0x2 has not yet aged - 
299
NOTE VxVM vxdmp 0 dmp_tur_temp_pgr: open failed: error = 6 dev=0x24/0xD0
NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1062 dmp_restore_node: Unstable path 18/0x230 will not be 
available for I/O until 300 seconds
NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-3-1061 dmp_restore_node: The path 18/0x2 has not yet aged - 
299
NOTE VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 
36/0xD0
..
..

B. DMP metanode/path under DMP metanode getting disabled unexpectedly

DESCRIPTION:
A. DMP caches the last discovery NDELAY open for the BCV dmpnode paths. BCV device 
switching to read-write mode is an array side operation. Typically in such cases 
system admins are required to run 

1. vxdisk rm <accessname>

OR 

In case of parallel backup jobs,

1. vxdisk offline <accessname>
2. vxdisk online <accessname>

This would cause DMP to close cached open and during next discovery, device is 
opened in read-write mode. If the above steps are skipped then it would cause 
DMP device to go in state where 1 of the path is in read-write mode and others 
remain in NDELAY mode. 

If the above layers request for NORMAL open then DMP has the code to close 
NDELAY cached open and reopen in NORMAL mode. During the online of dmpnode this 
happens only for 1 of the paths of dmpnode. 

B. DMP performs error analysis for paths on which I/O failed. In some cases the 
SCSI probes sent, failed with the return value/sense codes that was not handled 
by DMP, causing the paths to get disabled.

RESOLUTION:
A. DMP EMC ASL (Array Support Library) is modified to handle case A for EMC
Symmetrix arrays.

B. DMP code is modified to handle SCSI conditions correctly for case B.

* 3358347 (Tracking ID: 3057554)

SYMPTOM:
The VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) command "vxdiskunsetup -o shred 
=1" failed for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) disks on Solaris X86 system.

DESCRIPTION:
Disk shred is failing on Solaris X86 system for EFI disks 
because I/O to last sector fails. Solaris X86 OS has an issue where last sector 
of a LUN cannot be written.

RESOLUTION:
The code change skip last sector while shredding, this will make 
shred pass with EFI disk.

* 3358348 (Tracking ID: 2665425)

SYMPTOM:
The "vxdisk -px <attribute> list" CLI does not support some basic vxvm
attributes, nor does it allow a user to specify multiple attributes in a
specific sequence. The display layout was not presented in a readable or
parsable manner.

DESCRIPTION:
Some basic vxvm disk attributes are not supported by the "vxdisk -px <attribute>
list" CLI which are useful for customizing the command output.  The
display output is also not aligned by column or suitable for parsing by a
utility.   In addition, the CLI does not allow multiple attributes to be
specified in a usable manner.

RESOLUTION:
Support for the following vxvm disk attributes were added to the CLI:

 SETTINGS              ALERTS                INFO
 HOSTID                DISK_TYPE             FORMAT
 DA_INFO               PRIV_OFF              PRIV_LEN
 PUB_OFF               PUB_LEN               PRIV_UDID
 DG_NAME               DGID                  DG_STATE
 DISKID                DISK_TIMESTAMP        STATE

The CLI has been enhanced to support multiple attributes separated by a comma,
and to align the display output by a column, separable by a comma for 
parsability.

 For example:

 # vxdisk -px ENCLOSURE_NAME, DG_NAME, LUN_SIZE, SETTINGS, state list
 DEVICE ENCLOSURE_NAME DG_NAME LUN_SIZE   SETTINGS             STATE
 sda    disk           -       143374650  -                    online
 sdb    disk           -       143374650  -                    online
 sdc    storwizev70000 fencedg 10485760   thinrclm, coordinator online

* 3358350 (Tracking ID: 3189830)

SYMPTOM:
User cannot specify force (-f) option while using "Mirror volumes on a disk"
operation of vxdiskadm command and has to execute other command (vxmirror) for
force (-f) option manually.

DESCRIPTION:
While using "Mirror volumes on a disk" option of vxdiskadm command for root disk,
if disk geometry does not match then command fails. Currently, vxdiskadm command
does not provide any way to specify -f option for this operation. So, user is
required to manually execute vxmirror command with force (-f) option if they want
to use it.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to allow user to specify force (-f) option through vxdiskadm
interface.

* 3358351 (Tracking ID: 3158320)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) command "vxdisk -px REPLICATED list <disk>" shows 
wrong output.

DESCRIPTION:
"vxdisk -px REPLICATED list <disk>" shows the same output as "vxdisk -px 
REPLICATED_TYPE list <disk>" and doesn't work as designed to show the values 
as "yes", "no" or "-".
It is because the command line parameter specified is parsed wrongly so that 
the REPLICATED attribute is wrongly dealt as REPLICATED_TYPE.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have made to deal "REPLICATED" attribute correctly.

* 3358352 (Tracking ID: 3326964)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) hangs in CVM (Clustered Volume Manager) 
environments in presence of FMR/Flashsnap (Fast Mirror Resync) operations.

DESCRIPTION:
During split brain testing in presence of FMR activities, when there are errors 
on the DCO (Data change object), the DCO error handling code hooks up the CPU 
as the same error gets set again in its handler. This causes the VxVM SIO 
(Staged IO) loop around the same code, thus, causing the hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to appropriately handle the error prone scenario without 
causing an infinite loop.

* 3358353 (Tracking ID: 3271315)

SYMPTOM:
Command 'vxdiskunsetup' with 'shred' option fails to shred 
sliced/simple disks on Solaris X86 platform. Errors of following format can be 
seen:

VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-16576 disk_shred: Shred failed one or more writes
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-16658 disk_shred: Shred wrote 1 pages, of which 1 
encountered errors

DESCRIPTION:
The error occurs as the check for 'disk size' returns incorrect 
value for sliced/simple disks on Solaris x86, as the VTOC values for 
sliced/simple disks are stored on the second sector instead of first.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to check for the second sector as 
well if no valid VTOC is found on the first sector.

* 3358354 (Tracking ID: 3332796)

SYMPTOM:
The following message is seen while initializing any EFI disk, though the disk 
was not used previously as ASM disk.
"VxVM vxisasm INFO v-5-1-0 seeking block #... "

DESCRIPTION:
As a part of disk initialization for every EFI disk, VxVM will check if an EFI 
disk has ASM label. "VxVM vxisasm INFO v-5-1-0 seeking block #..." is printed 
unconditionally and this is unreasonable.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to not display the message.

* 3358357 (Tracking ID: 3277258)

SYMPTOM:
When DRL ( Dirty Region Log ) was off and detach of plex was attempted on a
mirrored volume, the below panic happened :

Unix:panicsys+0x48()
unix:vpanic_common+0x78()
unix:panic+0x1c()
unix:die+0x78()
unix:trap+0x9e0()
unix:ktl0+0x48()
-- trap data  type: 0x31 (data access MMU miss)  rp: 0x2a1033396d0  --
  addr: 0xf0
pc:  0x7c589f8c vxio:vol_mv_pldet_callback+0x94:   lduw [%o1 + 0xf0], %i2
npc: 0x7c589f90 vxio:vol_mv_pldet_callback+0x98:   andcc  %i2, %i5        ( 
btst  %i2 %i5 )

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<trap>vxio:vol_mv_pldet_callback+0x94()
vxio:vol_klog_start+0x98()
vxio:voliod_iohandle+0x30()
vxio:voliod_loop+0x3e0()
unix:thread_start+0x4()
-- end of kernel thread's stack --

DESCRIPTION:
In the plex detach code, there was no conditional check for the presence of DRL
object before checking for DRL version. Here passing a NULL value to check for
DRL version results in system panic.

RESOLUTION:
DRL version check is removed since it is not necessary to have in
place. Further code itself handles version check.

* 3358367 (Tracking ID: 3230148)

SYMPTOM:
Clustered Volume Manager (CVM) hangs during split brain testing.

DESCRIPTION:
During split brain testing in presence of FMR activities, a read-writeback 
operation/SIO (Staged IO) can be issued as part of DCO (Data change object) 
chunk update. This SIO tries to read from plex1, and when this read fails, it 
reads from other available plex(es) and performs a write on all other plexes. 
As the other plex has already failed, write operation also fails and gets 
retried with IOSHIPPING, which also fails due to unavailability of the plex 
from other nodes as well (because of split brain testing). As remote plex is 
unavailable, write will fail again and serialization is called again on this 
sio during which system hangs due to mismatch in active and serial counts.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to take care of active/serial counts when the SIOs 
are restarted with IOSHIPPING.

* 3358368 (Tracking ID: 3249264)

SYMPTOM:
Thin Disks and Disk groups containing thin disk goes in ERROR state or lose the 
configuration copy after a reclaim operation is performed on the disk. The 
following are the commonly observed

DESCRIPTION:
Disks of disk groups with volumes created with option init=zero on thin reclaim 
disks, formatted as sliced, get into the ERROR state after being destroyed with 
the vxdg destroy command. As the partition offset is not taken into 
consideration 
for these types of disks, the private region data is lost resulting in 
the disks going into the Error state.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to consider disk_offset during operations on disks 
formatted as sliced.

* 3358369 (Tracking ID: 3250369)

SYMPTOM:
The following command is triggering number of events.

# vxdisk scandisks

DESCRIPTION:
Execution of the command triggers a re-online of all the disks, which involves 
reading of the private region from all the disks. Failure of these read IOs 
generate error events, which are notified to all the clients waiting on 
"vxnotify". One of such clients is "vxattachd" daemon. The daemon initiates a 
"vxdisk scandisks", when the number of events are more than 256. Thus 
"vxattachd" is initiating another cycle of above activity resulting in endless 
events.

RESOLUTION:
The count value which triggers the vxattachd daemon is changed from 256 to 
1024. 
The DMP events are sub categorized further, as per the requirement of vxattachd 
daemon.

* 3358370 (Tracking ID: 2921147)

SYMPTOM:
The udid_mismatch flag is absent on a clone disk when source disk is 
unavailable. The 'vxdisk list' command does not show the udid_mismatch flag on 
a disk. This happens even when the 'vxdisk -o udid list' or 'vxdisk -v list 
diskname | grep udid' commands show different Device Discovery Layer (DDL) 
generated and private region unique identifier for disks (UDIDs).

DESCRIPTION:
When DDL generates the UDID and private region UDID of a disk do not match, 
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) sets the udid_mismatch flag on the disk. This 
flag is used to detect a disk as clone, which is marked with the clone-disk 
flag. The vxdisk (1M) utility is used to suppress the display of the 
udid_mismatch flag if the source Logical Unit Number (LUN) is unavailable on 
the same host.

RESOLUTION:
The vxdisk (1M) utility is modified to display the udid_mismatch flag, if it is 
set on the disk. Display of this flag is no longer suppressed, even when source 
LUN is unavailable on same host.

* 3358371 (Tracking ID: 3125711)

SYMPTOM:
While reclaim is going on Primary node if secondary node is rebooted then it
panics with following stack:
do_page_fault 
page_fault 
dmp_reclaim_device 
dmp_reclaim_storage
gendmpioctl 
dmpioctl 
vol_dmp_ktok_ioctl 
voldisk_reclaim_region 
vol_reclaim_disk 
vol_subdisksio_start 
voliod_iohandle 
voliod_loop 
...

DESCRIPTION:
In VVR environment, there was a corner case with reclaim operation on secondary
where the reclaim length was calculated incorrectly leading to memory allocation
failure. This resulted in a panic

RESOLUTION:
Modified condition to calculate reclaim length correctly

* 3358372 (Tracking ID: 3156295)

SYMPTOM:
When DMP (Dynamic Multi-pathing) native support is enabled for Oracle ASM
(Automatic Storage Management) devices, the permission and ownership of 
'/dev/raw/raw#' devices goes wrong after reboot.

DESCRIPTION:
When VxVM binds the DMP (Dynamic Multi-pathing) devices to raw devices during a
reboot, it invokes 'raw' command to create raw devices and then tries to set 
the permission and ownership of them immediately after the 'raw' command is
invoked asynchronously. However in some cases the raw device is not yet created 
at the time when VxVM tries to set the permission and ownership. In that case,
eventually the raw device gets created but the correct permission and ownership 
are not set.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to set the permission and ownership of the raw devices
when DMP gets the OS event which implies the raw device creation is finished. It 
ensures to set the correct permission and ownership of the raw devices.

* 3358374 (Tracking ID: 3237503)

SYMPTOM:
System hang may happen after creating space-optimized snapshot with large size
cache volume.

DESCRIPTION:
For all changes written to cache volume after snapshot volume is created, a
translation map with B+tree structure is used to speed up search/insert/delete
operations. When trying to insert a node to the tree, type casting of page
offset to 'unsigned int' causes value truncation for the offset beyond maximum
32bit integer. The value truncation corrupts the B+tree thereby resulting in an
SIO (VxVM Staged IO) hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes were made to remove all type casting to 'unsigned int' in cache
volume code.

* 3358376 (Tracking ID: 3116990)

SYMPTOM:
In case of write protected hardware mirror LUNs , VxVM commands such as 'vxdisk 
scandisks', 'vxdctl enable' and vxconfigd restart emit following error messages 
in console logs 

[..]
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING:/pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/SUNW, qlc@0/fp@0, 0/ssd@w50060e8016
02ba15, 21 (ssd315):
Error for Command: write Error Level: Fatal
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: Write_Protected
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x22 (illegal function), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
[..]

DESCRIPTION:
As part of the VxVM commands disk online operation is ran on write protected 
disks. Online operation updates disk label if the geometry info in disk label 
is stale or no disk label is present. Such disk writes causes SCSI driver to 
report errors for write protected LUNs.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes were made within VxVM to inform SCSI to suppress these error 
messages.

* 3358377 (Tracking ID: 3199398)

SYMPTOM:
Output of the command "vxdmpadm pgrrereg" depends on the order of DMP (Dynamic MultiPathing) node 
list where the terminal output depends on the last LUN (DMP node).

1. Terminal message when PGR (Persistent Group Reservation) re-registration is succeeded on the last LUN

  # vxdmpadm pgrrereg
  VxVM vxdmpadm INFO V-5-1-0 DMP PGR re-registration done for ALL PGR enabled dmpnodes.

2. Terminal message when PGR re-registration is failed on the last LUN

  # vxdmpadm pgrrereg
  vxdmpadm: Permission denied

DESCRIPTION:
"vxdmpadm pgrrereg" command has been introduced to support the facility to move a guest 
OS on one physical node to another node. In Solaris LDOM environment, the feature is called "Live 
Migration". When a customer is using I/O fencing feature and a guest OS is moved to another physical 
node, I/O will not be succeeded in the guest OS after the physical node migration because each DMP nodes 
of the guest OS doesn't have a valid SCSI-3 PGR key as the physical HBA is changed. This command will 
help on re-registering the valid PGR keys for new physical nodes, however its command output is 
depending on the last LUN (DMP node).

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to log the re-registration failures in System log file. Terminal output now instructs 
to look into the system log when an error is seen on a LUN.

* 3358379 (Tracking ID: 1783763)

SYMPTOM:
In a VVR environment, the vxconfigd(1M) daemon may hang during a configuration 
change operation. The following stack trace is observed:
delay
vol_rv_transaction_prepare
vol_commit_iolock_objects
vol_ktrans_commit
volconfig_ioctl
volsioctl_real
volsioctl
vols_ioctl
...

DESCRIPTION:
Incorrect serialization primitives are used. This results in the vxconfigd(1M) 
daemon to hang.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to use the correct serialization primitives.

* 3358380 (Tracking ID: 2152830)

SYMPTOM:
A diskgroup (DG) import fails with a non-descriptive error message when 
multiple copies (clones) of the same device exist and the original devices are 
either offline or not available.
For example:
# vxdg import mydg
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10978 Disk group mydg: import
failed:
No valid disk found containing disk group

DESCRIPTION:
If the original devices are offline or unavailable, the vxdg(1M) command picks 
up cloned disks for import.DG import fails unless the clones are tagged and the 
tag is specified during the DG import. The import failure is expected, but the 
error message is non-descriptive and does not specify the corrective action to 
be taken by the user.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to give the correct error message when duplicate clones 
exist during import. Also, details of the duplicate clones are reported in the 
system log.

* 3358381 (Tracking ID: 2859470)

SYMPTOM:
The EMC SRDF-R2 disk may go in error state when the Extensible Firmware 
Interface (EFI) label is created on the R1 disk. For example:
R1 site
# vxdisk -eo alldgs list | grep -i srdf
emc0_008c auto:cdsdisk emc0_008c SRDFdg online c1t5006048C5368E580d266 srdf-r1

R2 site
# vxdisk -eo alldgs list | grep -i srdf
emc1_0072 auto - - error c1t5006048C536979A0d65 srdf-r2

DESCRIPTION:
Since R2 disks are in write protected mode, the default open() call made for 
the read-write mode fails for the R2 disks, and the disk is marked as invalid.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to change Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) to be able to read 
the EFI label even on a write-protected SRDF-R2 disk.

* 3358382 (Tracking ID: 3086627)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command fails with error:
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-16282 Cannot retrieve stats: Bad address

DESCRIPTION:
This issue happens when system has more than 200 LUNs. VxVM reads file system
statistical information for each lun to generate file system size data. But 
after
reading the information for first 200 luns, buffer was not reset correctly. So,
subsequent access to buffer address will generate this error.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to properly reset buffer address.

* 3358404 (Tracking ID: 3021970)

SYMPTOM:
Secondary node panics due to NULL pointer dereference while freeing an 
interlock.

page_fault
volsio_ilock_free
vol_rv_inactivate_wsio
vol_rv_restart_wsio
vol_rv_serialise_sec_logging
vol_rv_serialize
vol_rv_errorhandler_start
voliod_iohandle
voliod_loop
...

DESCRIPTION:
The panic is seen if there is a node crash/node reconfiguration on the Primary.
The secondary did not correctly handle the updates for the period of crash
correctly and resulted in a panic.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary code changes have been done to properly handle the freeing of 
interlock
for node crash/reconfigurations on the Primary side.

* 3358405 (Tracking ID: 3026977)

SYMPTOM:
DR (Dynamic Reconfiguration) option with 'vxdiskadm' removes Luns even which are
not in Failing/Unusable state.

DESCRIPTION:
We use "grep" with "-i" option in the script 'SunOS.pm' for retrieving the
information of failing/unusable disks. As this option yields multiple entries
including unrequired disks, it leads to removal of luns even which are not in
failing/unusable state.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to retrieve the correct information of
failing/unusable disks.

* 3358407 (Tracking ID: 3107699)

SYMPTOM:
System panic in below stack when shutdown/reboot.

unix:panic+0x1c()
unix:mutex_enter() 
vxio:volinfo_ioctl+0x140()
vxio:volsioctl_real+0x300()
genunix:cdev_ioctl()
vxdmp:dmp_signal_vold+0x1a8()
vxdmp:dmp_throttle_paths+0x424()
vxdmp:dmp_process_stats+0x278()
vxdmp:dmp_daemons_loop+0x160()
unix:thread_start+0x4()

DESCRIPTION:
In the special scenario of system shutdown/reboot, the DMP (Dynamic Multi-
Pathing) I/O statistic daemon tries to call the ioctl functions in VXIO module 
which is being unloaded. It causes the system panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to stop DMP I/O statistic daemon before system 
shutdown/reboot.

* 3358408 (Tracking ID: 3115206)

SYMPTOM:
When ZFS root and dmp_native_support is enabled, system paniced with following 
stack:
bp_mapout+0x58()
vdev_disk_io_intr+0x70()
gendmpiodone+0x1c8()
sd_return_command+0x2f0()
sdintr+0x3a8()
xsvhba_complete_cmd_and_callback+0xb4()
xsvhba_process_rsp+0x1204()
xsvhba_process_dqp_msg+0x110()
xsvhba_process_data_buffers+0xc0()
xsvhba_data_recv_handler+4()
xstl_chan_recv_handler+0x160()
taskq_thread+0x3a8()
thread_start+4()

DESCRIPTION:
when IO completed, in some conditions, operation system will access 
the "b_shadow" field in the return buffer. Since DMP doesn't return the correct 
field value to the operating system, the "b_shadow" will be NULL. As a result, 
system panic due to the NULL pointer.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to return the correct value of buffer's "b_shadow" 
field to the operating system.

* 3358414 (Tracking ID: 3139983)

SYMPTOM:
Failed I/Os from SCSI are retried only on very few paths to a LUN instead of 
utilizing all the available paths. At times this results in multiple IO retries 
without success thus DMP sending IO failure to the application bounded by the 
recoveryoption tunable. 
 
 The following messages are displayed in the console log:
 [..]
 Mon Apr xx 04:18:01.885: I/O analysis done as DMP_PATH_OKAY on Path
 <path-name> belonging to Dmpnode <dmpnode-name> Mon Apr xx 04:18:01.885: I/O 
error occurred (errno=0x0) on Dmpnode <dmpnode-name> [..]

DESCRIPTION:
When I/O failure is returned to DMP with a retry error from SCSI, DMP retries 
that IO on another path. However, it failed to choose the path that has the 
higher probability of successfully handling the IO.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to implement this intelligence of choosing appropriate 
paths that can successfully process the I/Os during retries.

* 3358416 (Tracking ID: 3312162)

SYMPTOM:
Data Corruption may occur on VVR DR (Secondary) Site. Following signs may 
indicate corruption:
1) 'vradmin verifydata' reports data differences even though replication is up-
to-date.
2) Secondary site may require a Full Fsck after 'Migrate'/'Takeover' Operations.
3) Error messages of following form may appear:
Example:
msgcnt 21 mesg 017: V-2-17: vx_dirlook - /dev/vx/dsk/<dgname>/<volname>  file 
system inode <inode number> marked bad incore
4) Silent corruption may occur without any visible errors.

DESCRIPTION:
With Secondary Logging enabled, replicated data on DR site gets written on to 
its SRL first, and later applied on the corresponding Data Volumes. While the 
writes from SRL are being flushed on to the data volumes, data corruption might 
occur, provided all the following conditions occur together:
 
1) Multiple writes for the same data block must occur in a short span of time, 
i.e while the given set of SRL writes are being flushed on to its data 
volumes.  (and)
2) Based on relative timing, locks to perform these writes (which occur on the 
same data block) get granted out of order, thus, leading to writes themselves 
being applied out of order.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to protect write order fidelity in strict order by 
ensuring that locks are granted in its strict order.

* 3358417 (Tracking ID: 3325122)

SYMPTOM:
In CVR environment, creation of stripe-mirror volume with logtype=dcm failed with
following error:
VxVM vxplex ERROR V-5-1-10128  Unexpected kernel error in configuration update

DESCRIPTION:
In layered volumes, DCM plexes are attached to the storage volumes and not to
the top level volume. There was error condition not handled correctly in the CVR
configuration.

RESOLUTION:
Modified code to handle the DCM plex placement in the layered volume case.

* 3358418 (Tracking ID: 3283525)

SYMPTOM:
Stopping and Starting the data volume (with an associated DCO volume) results in 
a vxconfigd hang with the below stack. The data volume has undergone vxresize 
earlier.


#0 [ffff882fdf625708] schedule at ffffffff8143f640
#1 [ffff882fdf625850] volsync_wait at ffffffffa10117a5 [vxio]
#2 [ffff882fdf6258c0] volsiowait at ffffffffa10af89b [vxio]
#3 [ffff882fdf625940] volpvsiowait at ffffffffa10af968 [vxio]
#4 [ffff882fdf625a30] voldco_get_accumulator at ffffffffa1037741 [vxio]
#5 [ffff882fdf625a50] voldco_acm_pagein at ffffffffa1037864 [vxio]
#6 [ffff882fdf625b30] voldco_write_pervol_maps_instant at ffffffffa103acb0 
[vxio]
#7 [ffff882fdf625bb0] voldco_write_pervol_maps at ffffffffa101d34d [vxio]
#8 [ffff882fdf625c70] volfmr_copymaps_instant at ffffffffa1072c49 [vxio]
#9 [ffff882fdf625d00] vol_mv_precommit at ffffffffa10885db [vxio]
#10 [ffff882fdf625d40] vol_commit_iolock_objects at ffffffffa107fd9a [vxio]
#11 [ffff882fdf625d90] vol_ktrans_commit at ffffffffa1080b80 [vxio]
#12 [ffff882fdf625de0] volconfig_ioctl at ffffffffa10f41b9 [vxio]
#13 [ffff882fdf625e10] volsioctl_real at ffffffffa10fc513 [vxio]
#14 [ffff882fdf625ee0] vols_ioctl at ffffffffa05fe113 [vxspec]
#15 [ffff882fdf625f00] vols_compat_ioctl at ffffffffa05fe18c [vxspec]
#16 [ffff882fdf625f10] compat_sys_ioctl at ffffffff8119b413
#17 [ffff882fdf625f80] sysenter_dispatch at ffffffff8144aaf0

DESCRIPTION:
In the VxVM code, Data Change Object (DCO) Table of Content (TOC) entry was not 
marked with an appropriate flag which prevents the incore new map size to be 
flushed to disk. This leads to corruption. A subsequent stop and start of the 
volume will read the incorrect TOC from disk detecting the corruption and 
resulting in vxconfigd hang.

RESOLUTION:
Mark the DCO TOC entry with the appropriate flag which will ensure that the 
incore data is flushed to disk to prevent the corruption and the subsequent 
vxconfigd hang.

During grow of volume, if grow of paging module fails, DCO TOC may not be 
updated as per current size and could lead to inconsistent DCO. The fix is to 
make sure to fail the precommit if paging module grow failed.

* 3358420 (Tracking ID: 3236773)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdmpadm getattr enclosure <enclr_name> failovermode" generates multiple "vxdmp 
V-5-3-0 dmp_indirect_ioctl: Ioctl Failed" error messages in syslog if the
enclosure is configured as EMC ALUA.

DESCRIPTION:
EMC disk array with ALUA mode only supports "implicit" type of failover-mode.
Moreover such disk array doesn't support set or get failover-mode. Then any 
set/get attempts for the failover-mode attribute generate "Ioctl Failed" error 
messages.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified while set/get failover-mode for EMC ALUA hardware 
configuration.

* 3358423 (Tracking ID: 3194305)

SYMPTOM:
In VVR environment, replication status goes in paused state since the 
vxstart_vvr start does not start vxnetd daemon automatically on secondary side.

vradmin -g vvrdg repstatus vvrvg
Replicated Data Set: vvrvg
Primary:
  Host name:                  Host IP
  RVG name:                   vvrvg
  DG name:                    vvrdg
  RVG state:                  enabled for I/O
  Data volumes:               1
  VSets:                      0
  SRL name:                   srlvol
  SRL size:                   5.00 G
  Total secondaries:          1
Secondary:
  Host name:                  Host IP
  RVG name:                   vvrvg
  DG name:                    vvrdg
  Data status:                consistent, up-to-date
  Replication status:         paused due to network disconnection
  Current mode:               asynchronous
  Logging to:                 SRL
  Timestamp Information:      behind by  0h 0m 0s

DESCRIPTION:
vxnetd daemon is seen stopped on secondary as a result of which replication 
status is seen paused on primary. vxnetd needs to start gracefully on secondary 
for the replication to be in proper state.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary code changes have been done to implement internal retry able mechanism
for starting vxnetd.

* 3358429 (Tracking ID: 3300418)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM volume operations on shared volumes cause unnecessary read I/Os 
against disks that have both config copy and log copy disabled on slaves.

DESCRIPTION:
The unnecessary disk read I/Os are generated on slaves while 
refreshing private region info into memory during VxVM transaction, no need to 
refresh private region info when the disk already has config copy and log copy 
disabled.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to skip the refreshing if both config copy and 
log copy are disabled on master and slaves.

* 3358430 (Tracking ID: 3258276)

SYMPTOM:
DMP(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) paths keep huge layer open number which causes SSD 
driver's total open number overflows (0x80000000), when dmp_cache_open is 
enabled. System panic with following stack:
unix:panicsys+0x48()
unix:vpanic_common+0x78()
genunix:cmn_err+0x98()
genunix:mod_rele_dev_by_major+0x80()
genunix:ddi_rele_driver()
vxdmp:dmp_dev_close+0x18()
vxdmp:gendmpclose+0x29c()
genunix:dev_close() 
vxdmp:dmp_dev_close+0xec()
vxdmp:dmp_indirect_ioctl+0x1b4()
vxdmp:gendmpioctl() 
vxdmp:dmpioctl+0x20()
specfs:spec_ioctl() 
genunix:fop_ioctl+0x20()
genunix:ioctl+0x184()
unix:syscall_trap32+0xcc()

DESCRIPTION:
There is an open leak in DMP which causes SSD driver's total open number 
overflows, and lead to system panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to avoid any open leaks.

* 3358433 (Tracking ID: 3301470)

SYMPTOM:
In CVR environment, a recovery on the primary side is causing all the nodes to
panic with following stack:
trap
ktl0
search_vxvm_mem
voliomem_range_iter
vol_ru_alloc_buffer_start
voliod_iohandle
voliod_loop

DESCRIPTION:
Recovery is trying to do a zero size readback from the SRL. This is resulting in 
a
panic

RESOLUTION:
Modified code to handle the corner case which was resulting in a zero sized 
readback.

* 3366688 (Tracking ID: 2957645)

SYMPTOM:
Terminal flooded with error messages like bellow:

VxVM INFO V-5-2-16543 connresp: new client ID allocation failed for cvm nodeid 
* with error *.

DESCRIPTION:
When restart vxconfigd, if failed to get a client ID, there is no need to print 
the error message as the default level. The messages will flood the terminal.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to print those messages only in debug level.

* 3366703 (Tracking ID: 3056311)

SYMPTOM:
Following problems can be seen on disks initialized with 5.1SP1 listener and which
are being used for older releases like 4.1, 5.0, 5.0.1:
1. Creation of a volume failed on a disk indicating in-sufficient space available.
2. Data corruption seen. CDS backup label signature seen within PUBLIC region data.
3. Disks greater than 1TB in size will appear "online invalid" after on older
releases.

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM listener can be used to initialize Boot disks and Data disks which can be
used with older VxVM releases. Eg: 5.1SP1 Listener can be used to initialize
disks which can be used with all previous VxVM releases like 5.0.1, 5.0, 4.1 etc.
With 5.1SP1 onwards VxVM always uses Fabricated geometry while initializing disk
with CDS format.
Older releases like 4.1, 5.0, 5.0.1 use Raw geometry. These releases do not
honor LABEL geometry. Hence, if a disk was initialized through 5.1SP1 listener,
disk would be stamped with Fabricated geometry. When such a disk was used with
older VxVM releases like 5.0.1, 5.0, 4.1, there can be a mismatch between the
stamped geometry (Fabricated) and in-memory geometry (Raw). If on-disk cylinder
size < in-memory cylinder size, we might encounter data corruption issues.
To prevent any data corruption issues, we need to initialize disks through
listener with older CDS format by using raw geometry.
Also, if disk size is >= 1TB, 5.1SP1 VxVM will initialize the disk with CDS EFI
format. Older releases like 4.1, 5.0, 5.0.1 etc. do not understand EFI format.

RESOLUTION:
From releases 5.1SP1 onwards, through HP-UX listener, disk to be used for older
releases like 4.1, 5.0, 5.0.1 will be initialized with raw geometry. 
Also, initialization of disk through HPUX listener whose size is greater than 1TB
will fail.

* 3367778 (Tracking ID: 3152274)

SYMPTOM:
I/O hang seen with Not-Ready(NR) OR write-disabled(WD) LUNs. System syslog
floods with I/O error messages like:

Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751628] 
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751632] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o
error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 201/0xb0
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751634] 
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751637] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o
error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 201/0xb0
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751639] 
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751643] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o
error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 201/0xb0
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751644] 
Apr 22 03:09:51 d2950rs3 kernel: [162164.751648] VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-0 [Error] i/o
error occurred (errno=0x6) on dmpnode 201/0xb0
..
..

DESCRIPTION:
For performance reasons, DMP immediately routes failed I/O through alternate
available path while performing asynchronous error analysis on I/O failed path. 
Not-ready (NR) rejects all kind of I/O requests. Write-disabled(WD) devices
rejects write I/O requests. But these devices respond fine to SCSI probes like
inquiry. so for those devices I/O was getting retried through DMP asynchronous
error analysis for different paths and was not actually getting terminated due
to code bug.

RESOLUTION:
DMP code was modified to better handle Not-Ready (NR) OR Write-Disabled (WD)
kind of devices. DMP async error analysis code was modified to handle such 
cases.

* 3368234 (Tracking ID: 3236772)

SYMPTOM:
With IO load on primary and replication going on, if we run "vradmin resizevol"
on primary, often these operations terminate with error message "vradmin ERROR
Lost connection to host".

DESCRIPTION:
There was a race condition on the secondary between the transaction and messages
delivered from Primary to Secondary. This resulted in repeated timeouts of
transactions on the Secondary. The repeated transaction timeout resulted in
session timeouts between Primary and secondary vradmind.

RESOLUTION:
Modified code to resolve the race condition.

* 3368236 (Tracking ID: 3327842)

SYMPTOM:
In CVR environment, with IO load on primary and replication going on, if we run
"vradmin resizevol" on primary, often these operations terminate with error
message "vradmin ERROR Lost connection to host".

DESCRIPTION:
There was a race condition on the secondary between the transaction and messages
delivered from Primary to Secondary. This resulted in repeated timeouts of
transactions on the Secondary. The repeated transaction timeout resulted in
session timeouts between Primary and secondary vradmind.

RESOLUTION:
Modified code to resolve the race condition.

* 3371422 (Tracking ID: 3087893)

SYMPTOM:
EMC PowerPath pseudo device mappings change with each reboot with VxVM 
(Veritas Volume Manager).

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM invokes PowerPath command 'powermt display unmanaged' to discover
 PowerPath unmanaged devices. This command destroys PowerPath devices mappings 
during early boot stage when PowerPath isn't fully up.

RESOLUTION:
EMC fixed the issue by introducing an environment variable MPAPI_EARLY_BOOT to 
powermt command. VxVM startup script set the variable to TRUE before calling 
powermt command. Powermt understands the early boot phase and does things 
differently. The variable is unset by VxVM after device discovery.

* 3374166 (Tracking ID: 3325371)

SYMPTOM:
Panic occurs in the vol_multistepsio_read_source() function when VxVM's 
FastResync feature is used. The stack trace observed is as following:
vol_multistepsio_read_source()
vol_multistepsio_start()
volkcontext_process()
vol_rv_write2_start()
voliod_iohandle()
voliod_loop()
kernel_thread()

DESCRIPTION:
When a volume is resized, Data Change Object (DCO) also needs to be resized. 
However, the old accumulator contents are not copied into the new accumulator. 
Thereby, the respective regions are marked as invalid. Subsequent I/O on these 
regions triggers the panic.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to appropriately copy the accumulator contents during the 
resize operation.

* 3376953 (Tracking ID: 3372724)

SYMPTOM:
System panics while installing VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) with the following 
warnings:
vxdmp: WARNING: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-216 mod_install returned 6 vxspec V-5-0-0 
vxspec: vxio not loaded. Aborting vxspec load

DESCRIPTION:
During installation of VxVM, if DMP (Dynamic Multipathing) module fails to load, 
the cleanup procedure fails to reset the statistics timer (which is set while 
loading). As a result, the timer dereferences a function pointer which is 
already unloaded. Hence, the panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to perform a complete cleanup when DMP fails to 
load.

* 3387405 (Tracking ID: 3019684)

SYMPTOM:
IO hang is observed when SRL is about to overflow after logowner switch from
slave to master. Stack trace looks like:

biowait
default_physio
volrdwr
fop_write
write
syscall_trap32

DESCRIPTION:
Delineating the steps, with slave as logowner, overflow the SRL and following it
up with DCM resync. Then, switching back logowner to master and trying to
overflow SRL again would manifest the IO hang in the master when SRL is about to
overflow. This happens because the master has a stale flag set with incorrect
value related to last SRL overflow.

RESOLUTION:
Reset the stale flag and ensure that flag is reset whether the logowner is
master or slave.

* 3387417 (Tracking ID: 3107741)

SYMPTOM:
"vxrvg snapdestroy" command fails with error message "Transaction aborted
waiting for io drain", and vxconfigd hang is observed. vxconfigd stack trace is:

vol_commit_iowait_objects
vol_commit_iolock_objects
vol_ktrans_commit
volconfig_ioctl
volsioctl_real
vols_ioctl
vols_compat_ioctl
compat_sys_ioctl
...

DESCRIPTION:
The smartmove query of VxFS depends on some reads and writes. If some
transaction in VxVM blocks the new read and write, then API is hung waiting for
the response. This creates a deadlock-like situation with Smartmove API is
waiting for transaction to complete and transaction waiting Smartmove API is
hung waiting for transaction, and hence the hang.

RESOLUTION:
Disallow transactions during the Smartmove API.

Patch ID: 6.0.300.100

* 2892702 (Tracking ID: 2567618)

SYMPTOM:
The VRTSexplorer dumps core with the segmentation fault in 
checkhbaapi/print_target_map_entry. The stack trace is observed as follows:
 print_target_map_entry()
check_hbaapi()
main()
_start()

DESCRIPTION:
The checkhbaapi utility uses the HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() API which returns 
the current set of mappings between the OS and the Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) 
devices for a given Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port. The maximum limit for mappings 
is set to 512 and only that much memory is allocated. When the number of 
mappings returned is greater than 512, the function that prints this 
information tries to access the entries beyond that limit, which results in 
core dumps.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to allocate enough memory for all the mappings returned by 
the HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() API.

* 3090670 (Tracking ID: 3090667)

SYMPTOM:
The "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command can cause system to hang or panic due 
to a kernel memory corruption. This command is also issued by Veritas 
Operations Manager (VOM) internally during Storage Foundation (SF) discovery. 
The following stack trace is observed:
 panic string:   kernel heap corruption detected
 vol_objioctl
vol_object_ioctl
voliod_ioctl - frame recycled
volsioctl_real

DESCRIPTION:
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) allocates data structures and invokes thin 
Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) specific function handlers, to determine the disk 
space that is actively used by the file system. One of the function handlers 
wrongly accesses the system memory beyond the allocated data structure, which 
results in the kernel memory corruption.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified so that the problematic function handler accesses only the 
allocated memory.

* 3099508 (Tracking ID: 3087893)

SYMPTOM:
EMC PowerPath pseudo device mappings change with each reboot with VxVM 
(Veritas Volume Manager).

DESCRIPTION:
VxVM invokes PowerPath command 'powermt display unmanaged' to discover
 PowerPath unmanaged devices. This command destroys PowerPath devices mappings 
during early boot stage when PowerPath isn't fully up.

RESOLUTION:
EMC fixed the issue by introducing an environment variable MPAPI_EARLY_BOOT to 
powermt command. VxVM startup script set the variable to TRUE before calling 
powermt command. Powermt understands the early boot phase and does things 
differently. The variable is unset by VxVM after device discovery.

* 3133012 (Tracking ID: 3160973)

SYMPTOM:
vxlist(1M) hangs while executing on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
formatted disk is attached to host. Following is the stack trace:
 [1] _read(0xa, 0xfe3fdf40, 0x400), 
  [2] read(0xa, 0xfe3fdf40, 0x400), 
  [3] is_asmdisk_efi(0xa, 0xfe3fe868, 0xfe3fe814, 0x200), 
  [4] is_asmdisk(0xfe3fe868, 0xfe3fe814, 0xfe3fec68), 
  [5] is_foreign_disk(0xfe3fe868, 0x0, 0xfe3fec68), 
  [6] vol_is_foreign_disk(0x8126304, 0x0), 
=>[7] isForeignDisk(da = 0x8125f68), 
  [8] getDaState(da = 0x8125f68), 
  [9] buildMapsForDeportedDgs(cfgvect = 0x81106d8, dacmap = 0x80e8ab8, newdb =
1), 
  [10] buildMapsForDgVec(vcfg = 0x81106c0, vectmap = 0xfe60eff0, dacmap =
0x80e8ab8), 
  [11] initDB(), 
  [12] init_db(),
  [13] doVmNotify(a = (nil)), 
  [14] _thr_setup(0xfe971200),
  [15] _lwp_start(),

DESCRIPTION:
vxvm reads partition table and checks for various foreign format signatures
within those partitions. Solaris/x86 SCSI driver cannot access the last sector
due to Solaris off-by-one bug. Please see Sun-Solaris Bug Id 6342431. If during 
this
partition recognition, last sector of the disk is accessed, read system call
hangs causing vxlist to hang.

RESOLUTION:
If the partition does contain the very last sector of the disk, we skip skip
reading that particular partition.

* 3140411 (Tracking ID: 2959325)

SYMPTOM:
The vxconfigd(1M) daemon dumps core while performing the disk group move 
operation with the following stack trace:
 dg_trans_start ()
 dg_configure_size ()
 config_enable_copy ()
 da_enable_copy ()
 ncopy_set_disk ()
 ncopy_set_group ()
 ncopy_policy_some ()
 ncopy_set_copies ()
 dg_balance_copies_helper ()
 dg_transfer_copies ()
 in vold_dm_dis_da ()
 in dg_move_complete ()
 in req_dg_move ()
 in request_loop ()
 in main ()

DESCRIPTION:
The core dump occurs when the disk group move operation tries to reduce the 
size of the configuration records in the disk group, when the size is large and 
the disk group move operation needs more space for the new- configrecord 
entries. Since, both the reduction of the size of configuration records 
(compaction) and the configuration change by disk group move operation cannot 
co-exist, this result in the core dump.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to make the compaction first before the configuration 
change by the disk group move operation.

* 3150893 (Tracking ID: 3119102)

SYMPTOM:
Live migration of virtual machine having Storage Foundation stack with data
disks fencing enabled, causes service groups configured on virtual machine to 
fault.

DESCRIPTION:
After live migration of virtual machine having Storage Foundation stack with
data disks fencing enabled is done, I/O fails on shared SAN devices with
reservation conflict and causes service groups to fault. 

Live migration causes SCSI initiator change. Hence I/O coming from migrated 
server to shared SAN storage fails with reservation conflict.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are added to check whether the host is fenced off from cluster. If 
host is not fenced off, then registration key is re-registered for dmpnode
through migrated server and restart IO.

Admin needs to manually invoke 'vxdmpadm pgrrereg' from guest which was live
migrated after live migration.

* 3156719 (Tracking ID: 2857044)

SYMPTOM:
System crashes with following stack when resizing volume with DCO version 30.

PID: 43437  TASK: ffff88402a70aae0  CPU: 17  COMMAND: "vxconfigd"
 #0 [ffff884055a47600] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103284b
 #1 [ffff884055a47660] crash_kexec at ffffffff810ba972
 #2 [ffff884055a47730] oops_end at ffffffff81501860
 #3 [ffff884055a47760] no_context at ffffffff81043bfb
 #4 [ffff884055a477b0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81043e85
 #5 [ffff884055a47800] bad_area at ffffffff81043fae
 #6 [ffff884055a47830] __do_page_fault at ffffffff81044760
 #7 [ffff884055a47950] do_page_fault at ffffffff8150383e
 #8 [ffff884055a47980] page_fault at ffffffff81500bf5
    [exception RIP: voldco_getalloffset+38]
    RIP: ffffffffa0bcc436  RSP: ffff884055a47a38  RFLAGS: 00010046
    RAX: 0000000000000001  RBX: ffff883032f9eac0  RCX: 000000000000000f
    RDX: ffff88205613d940  RSI: ffff8830392230c0  RDI: ffff883fd1f55800
    RBP: ffff884055a47a38   R8: 0000000000000000   R9: 0000000000000000
    R10: 000000000000000e  R11: 000000000000000d  R12: ffff882020e80cc0
    R13: 0000000000000001  R14: ffff883fd1f55800  R15: ffff883fd1f559e8
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
#9 [ffff884055a47a40] voldco_get_map_extents at ffffffffa0bd09ab [vxio]
#10 [ffff884055a47a90] voldco_update_extents_info at ffffffffa0bd8494 [vxio]
#11 [ffff884055a47ab0] voldco_instant_resize_30 at ffffffffa0bd8758 [vxio]
#12 [ffff884055a47ba0] volfmr_instant_resize at ffffffffa0c03855 [vxio]
#13 [ffff884055a47bb0] voldco_process_instant_op at ffffffffa0bcae2f [vxio]
#14 [ffff884055a47c30] volfmr_process_instant_op at ffffffffa0c03a74 [vxio]
#15 [ffff884055a47c40] vol_mv_precommit at ffffffffa0c1ad02 [vxio]
#16 [ffff884055a47c90] vol_commit_iolock_objects at ffffffffa0c1244f [vxio]
#17 [ffff884055a47cf0] vol_ktrans_commit at ffffffffa0c131ce [vxio]
#18 [ffff884055a47d70] volconfig_ioctl at ffffffffa0c8451f [vxio]
#19 [ffff884055a47db0] volsioctl_real at ffffffffa0c8c9b8 [vxio]
#20 [ffff884055a47e90] vols_ioctl at ffffffffa0040126 [vxspec]
#21 [ffff884055a47eb0] vols_compat_ioctl at ffffffffa004034d [vxspec]
#22 [ffff884055a47ee0] compat_sys_ioctl at ffffffff811ce0ed
#23 [ffff884055a47f80] sysenter_dispatch at ffffffff8104a880

DESCRIPTION:
While updating DCO TOC(Table Of Content) entries into in-core TOC, a TOC entry 
is wrongly freed and zeroed out. As a result, traversing TOC entries leads to 
NULL pointer dereference and thus, causing the panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to appropriately update the TOC entries.

* 3159096 (Tracking ID: 3146715)

SYMPTOM:
The 'rinks' do not connect with the Network Address Translation (NAT) 
configurations on Little Endian Architecture (LEA).

DESCRIPTION:
On LEAs, the Internet Protocol (IP) address configured with the NAT mechanism 
is not converted from the host-byte order to the network-byte order. As a 
result, the address used for the rlink connection mechanism gets distorted and 
the 'rlinks' fail to connect.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified to convert the IP address to the network-byte order before 
it is used.

* 3254227 (Tracking ID: 3182350)

SYMPTOM:
If there are more than 8192 paths in the system, the 
vxassist command hangs while creating a new VxVM volume or 
increasing the existing volume's size.

DESCRIPTION:
The vxassist command creates a hash table with max 8192 entries. Hence
other paths greater than 8192 will get hashed to an overlapping bucket
in this hash table. In such case, multiple paths which hash to the same bucket 
are linked in a chain.

In order to find a particular path in a specified bucket, vxassist command 
needs to traverse the entire linked chain. However vxassist only searches
the first element and hangs.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modifed to traverse the entire linked chain.

* 3254229 (Tracking ID: 3063378)

SYMPTOM:
Some VxVM (Volume Manager) commands run slowly when "read only" devices (e.g. 
EMC SRDF-WD, BCV-NR) are presented and managed by EMC PowerPath.

DESCRIPTION:
When performing IO write on a "read only" device, IO fails and retry will be 
done if IO is on TPD(Third Party Driver) device and path status is okay. Owing 
to the retry, IO will not return until timeout reaches which gives the 
perception that VxVM commands run slowly.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been done to return IO immediately with disk media failure if 
IO fails on any TPD device and path status is okay.

* 3254427 (Tracking ID: 3182175)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" command can report incorrect File System usage 
data.

DESCRIPTION:
An integer overflow in the internal calculation can cause this command to report 
incorrect per disk FS usage.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made so that the command would report the correct File System 
usage data.

* 3280555 (Tracking ID: 2959733)

SYMPTOM:
When device paths are moved across LUNs or enclosures, vxconfigd daemon can dump
core or data corruption can occur due to internal data structure inconsistencies.

DESCRIPTION:
When the device path configuration is changed after a planned or unplanned
disconnection by moving only a subset of the device paths across LUNs or other
storage arrays (enclosures), the DMP's internal data structures get messed up
leading to vxconfigd daemon dumping core and in some situations data corruption
due to incorrect LUN to path mappings.

RESOLUTION:
To resolve this issue, the vxconfigd code was modified to detect such situations
gracefully and modify the internal data structures accordingly to avoid a
vxconfigd coredump and data corruption

* 3294641 (Tracking ID: 3107741)

SYMPTOM:
"vxrvg snapdestroy" command fails with error message "Transaction aborted
waiting for io drain", and vxconfigd hang is observed. vxconfigd stack trace is:

vol_commit_iowait_objects
vol_commit_iolock_objects
vol_ktrans_commit
volconfig_ioctl
volsioctl_real
vols_ioctl
vols_compat_ioctl
compat_sys_ioctl
...

DESCRIPTION:
The smartmove query of VxFS depends on some reads and writes. If some
transaction in VxVM blocks the new read and write, then API is hung waiting for
the response. This creates a deadlock-like situation with Smartmove API is
waiting for transaction to complete and transaction waiting Smartmove API is
hung waiting for transaction, and hence the hang.

RESOLUTION:
Disallow transactions during the Smartmove API.

* 3294642 (Tracking ID: 3019684)

SYMPTOM:
IO hang is observed when SRL is about to overflow after logowner switch from
slave to master. Stack trace looks like:

biowait
default_physio
volrdwr
fop_write
write
syscall_trap32

DESCRIPTION:
Delineating the steps, with slave as logowner, overflow the SRL and following it
up with DCM resync. Then, switching back logowner to master and trying to
overflow SRL again would manifest the IO hang in the master when SRL is about to
overflow. This happens because the master has a stale flag set with incorrect
value related to last SRL overflow.

RESOLUTION:
Reset the stale flag and ensure that flag is reset whether the logowner is
master or slave.

Patch ID: 6.0.300.000

* 2853712 (Tracking ID: 2815517)

SYMPTOM:
vxdg adddisk succeeds to add a clone disk to non-clone and non-clone disk to 
clone diskgroup, resulting in mixed diskgroup.

DESCRIPTION:
vxdg import fails for diskgroup which has mix of clone and non-clone disks. So 
vxdg adddisk should not allow creation of mixed diskgroup.

RESOLUTION:
vxdisk adddisk code is modified to return an error for an attempt to add clone 
disk to non-clone or non-clone disks to clone diskgroup, Thus it prevents 
addition of disk in diskgroup which leads to mixed diskgroup.

* 2860207 (Tracking ID: 2859470)

SYMPTOM:
The EMC SRDF-R2 disk may go in error state when you create EFI label on the R1 
disk. For example:

R1 site
# vxdisk -eo alldgs list | grep -i srdf
emc0_008c auto:cdsdisk emc0_008c SRDFdg online c1t5006048C5368E580d266 srdf-r1

R2 site
# vxdisk -eo alldgs list | grep -i srdf
emc1_0072 auto - - error c1t5006048C536979A0d65 srdf-r2

DESCRIPTION:
Since R2 disks are in write protected mode, the default open() call (made for 
read-write mode) fails for the R2 disks, and the disk is marked as invalid.

RESOLUTION:
As a fix, DMP was changed to be able to read the EFI label even on a write 
protected SRDF-R2 disk.

* 2863672 (Tracking ID: 2834046)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM dynamically reminors all the volumes during DG import if the DG base minor
numbers are not in the correct pool. This behaviour cases NFS client to have to
re-mount all NFS file systems in an environment where CVM is used on the NFS
server side.

DESCRIPTION:
Starting from 5.1, the minor number space is divided into two pools, one for
private disk groups and another for shared disk groups. During DG import, the DG
base minor numbers will be adjusted automatically if not in the correct pool,
and so do the volumes in the disk groups. This behaviour reduces many minor
conflicting cases during DG import. But in NFS environment, it makes all file
handles on the client side stale. Customers had to unmount files systems and
restart applications.

RESOLUTION:
A new tunable, "autoreminor", is introduced. The default value is "on". Most of
the customers don't care about auto-reminoring. They can just leave it as it is.
For a environment that autoreminoring is not desirable, customers can just turn
it off. Another major change is that during DG import, VxVM won't change minor 
numbers as long as there is no minor conflicts. This includes the cases that 
minor numbers are in the wrong pool.

* 2863708 (Tracking ID: 2836528)

SYMPTOM:
vxdisk resize fails with an error " New geometry makes partition unaligned "

bash# vxdisk -g testdg resize disk01 length=8g
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device disk01: resize failed: New geometry makes
partition unaligned

DESCRIPTION:
On Solaris X86 system, the partition 8 is not necessary to align with
cylinder size. However VxVM requires this partition to be cylinder aligned. 
Hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Issue is fixed by doing the necessary changes to skip alignment check
for partition 8 on Solaris X86 platform.

* 2876865 (Tracking ID: 2510928)

SYMPTOM:
The extended attributes reported by "vxdisk -e list" for the EMC SRDF luns are 
reported as "tdev mirror", instead of "tdev srdf-r1". Example,

# vxdisk -e list 
DEVICE       TYPE           DISK        GROUP        STATUS              
OS_NATIVE_NAME   ATTR        
emc0_028b    auto:cdsdisk   -            -           online thin         
c3t5006048AD5F0E40Ed190s2 tdev mirror

DESCRIPTION:
The extraction of the attributes of EMC SRDF luns was not done properly. Hence,
EMC SRDF luns are erroneously reported as "tdev mirror", instead of "tdev srdf-
r1".

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to extract the correct values.

* 2892499 (Tracking ID: 2149922)

SYMPTOM:
Record the diskgroup import and deport events in 
the /var/adm/messages file.
Following type of message can be logged in syslog:
vxvm:vxconfigd: V-5-1-16254 Disk group import of <dgname> succeeded.

DESCRIPTION:
With the diskgroup import or deport, appropriate success message 
or failure message with the cause for failure should be logged.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to log diskgroup import and deport events in 
syslog.

* 2892571 (Tracking ID: 1856733)

SYMPTOM:
Add support for FusionIO on Solaris x64

DESCRIPTION:
FusionIO was not previously supported on Solaris x64 platform.

RESOLUTION:
Support for FusionIO is added for Solaris x64.

* 2892590 (Tracking ID: 2779580)

SYMPTOM:
Secondary node gives configuration error 'no Primary RVG' when primary master 
node(default logowner) is rebooted and slave becomes new master.

DESCRIPTION:
After reboot of primary master, new master sends handshake request for vradmind
communication to secondary. As a part of handshake request, secondary deletes 
the old configuration including primary RVG. During this phase, secondary 
receives configuration update message from primary for old configuration. 
Secondary does not find old primary RVG configuration for processing this 
message. Hence, it cannot proceed with the pending handshake request and gives 
'no Primary RVG' configuration error.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done such that during handshake request phase, configuration 
messages of old primary RVG are discarded.

* 2892621 (Tracking ID: 1903700)

SYMPTOM:
vxassist remove mirror does not work if nmirror and alloc is specified,
giving an error "Cannot remove enough mirrors"

DESCRIPTION:
During remove mirror operation, VxVM does not perform correct
analysis of plexes. Hence the issue.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary code changes have been done so that vxassist works properly.

* 2892630 (Tracking ID: 2742706)

SYMPTOM:
The system panic can happen with following stack, when the Oracle 10G Grid
Agent Software invokes the command :-

     # nmhs get_solaris_disks

<leaf trap>unix:lock_try+0x0()
genunix:turnstile_interlock+0x1c()
genunix:turnstile_block+0x1b8()
unix:mutex_vector_enter+0x428()
unix:mutex_enter() - frame recycled
vxlo:vxlo_open+0x2c()
genunix:dev_open() - frame recycled
specfs:spec_open+0x4f4()
genunix:fop_open+0x78()
genunix:vn_openat+0x500()
genunix:copen+0x260()
unix:syscall_trap32+0xcc()

DESCRIPTION:
The open system call code path of the vxlo (Veritas Loopback Driver) is not
releasing the acquired global lock after the work is completed. The panic may
occur when the next open system call tries to acquire the lock.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to release the global lock appropriately.

* 2892643 (Tracking ID: 2801962)

SYMPTOM:
Operations that lead to growing of volume, including 'vxresize', 'vxassist 
growby/growto' take significantly larger time if the volume has version 20 
DCO(Data Change Object) attached to it in comparison to volume which doesn't 
have DCO attached.

DESCRIPTION:
When a volume with a DCO is grown, it needs to copy the existing map in DCO and 
update the map to track the grown regions.  The algorithm was such that for 
each region in the map it would search for the page that contains that region 
so as to update the map. Number of regions and number of pages containing them 
are proportional to volume size. So, the search complexity is amplified and 
observed primarily when the volume size is of the order of terabytes. In the 
reported instance, it took more than 12 minutes to grow a 2.7TB volume by 50G.

RESOLUTION:
Code has been enhanced to find the regions that are contained within a page and 
then avoid looking-up the page for all those regions.

* 2892650 (Tracking ID: 2826125)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM script daemons are not up after they are invoked with the vxvm-recover 
script.

DESCRIPTION:
When the VxVM script daemon is starting, it will terminate any stale instance
if it does exist. When the script daemon is invoking with exactly the same 
process id of the previous invocation, the daemon itself is abnormally 
terminated by killing one own self through a false-positive detection.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to handle the same process id situation correctly.

* 2892660 (Tracking ID: 2000585)

SYMPTOM:
If 'vxrecover -sn' is run and at the same time one volume is removed, vxrecover 
exits with the error 'Cannot refetch volume', the exit status code is zero but 
no volumes are started.

DESCRIPTION:
vxrecover assumes that volume is missing because the diskgroup must have been
deported while vxrecover was in progress. Hence, it exits without starting
remaining volumes. vxrecover should be able to start other volumes, if the DG 
is not deported.

RESOLUTION:
Modified the source to skip missing volume and proceed with remaining volumes.

* 2892665 (Tracking ID: 2807158)

SYMPTOM:
During VM upgrade or patch installation on Solaris platform, 
sometimes the system can hang due to deadlock with following stack:

genunix:cv_wait
genunix:ndi_devi_enter
genunix:devi_config_one
genunix:ndi_devi_config_one
genunix:resolve_pathname
genunix:e_ddi_hold_devi_by_path
vxspec:_init
genunix:modinstall
genunix:mod_hold_installed_mod
genunix:modrload
genunix:modload
genunix:mod_hold_dev_by_major
genunix:ndi_hold_driver
genunix:probe_node
genunix:i_ndi_config_node
genunix:i_ddi_attachchild

DESCRIPTION:
During the upgrade or patch installation, the vxspec module is 
unloaded and reloaded. In the vxspec module initialization, it tries to lock 
root node during the pathname go-through while already holding the subnode, 
i.e, /pseudo. Meanwhile, if there is another process holding the lock of root
node is acquiring the lock of the subnode /pseudo, the deadlock occurs since
each process tries to get the lock already hold by peer.

RESOLUTION:
APIs which are introducing deadlock are replaced.

* 2892682 (Tracking ID: 2837717)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdisk(1M) resize" command fails if 'da name' is specified.

DESCRIPTION:
The scenario for 'da name' is not handled in the resize code path.

RESOLUTION:
The code is modified such that if 'dm name' is not specified to resize, then 'da 
name' specific operation is performed.

* 2892684 (Tracking ID: 1859018)

SYMPTOM:
"Link <link-name> link detached from volume <volume-name>" warnings are 
displayed when a linked-breakoff snapshot is created.

DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of these message is to let user and administrators know about the 
detach of link due to I/O errors. These messages get displayed uneccesarily 
whenever linked-breakoff snapshot is created.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to display messages only when link is detached due to I/O 
errors on volumes involved in link-relationship.

* 2892689 (Tracking ID: 2836798)

SYMPTOM:
'vxdisk resize' fails with the following error on the simple format EFI 
(Extensible Firmware Interface) disk expanded from array side and system may 
panic/hang after a few minutes.
 
# vxdisk resize disk_10
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device disk_10: resize failed:
Configuration daemon error -1

DESCRIPTION:
As VxVM doesn't support Dynamic Lun Expansion on simple/sliced EFI disk, last 
usable LBA (Logical Block Address) in EFI header is not updated while expanding 
LUN. Since the header is not updated, the partition end entry was regarded as 
illegal and cleared as part of partition range check. This inconsistent 
partition information between the kernel and disk causes system panic/hang.

RESOLUTION:
Added checks in VxVM code to prevent DLE on simple/sliced EFI disk.

* 2892698 (Tracking ID: 2851085)

SYMPTOM:
DMP doesn't detect implicit LUN ownership changes

DESCRIPTION:
DMP does ownership monitoring for ALUA arrays to detect implicit LUN ownership
changes. This helps DMP to always use Active/Optimized path for sending down I/O.
 This feature is controlled using dmp_monitor_ownership tune and is enabled by
default. 

In case of partial discovery triggered through event source daemon (vxesd), ALUA
information kept in kernel data structure for ownership monitoring was getting
wiped. This causes ownership monitoring to not work for these dmpnodes.

RESOLUTION:
Source has been updated to handle such case.

* 2892702 (Tracking ID: 2567618)

SYMPTOM:
VRTSexplorer coredumps in checkhbaapi/print_target_map_entry which looks like:
print_target_map_entry()
check_hbaapi()
main()
_start()

DESCRIPTION:
checkhbaapi utility uses HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() API which returns the current 
set of mappings between operating system and fibre channel protocol (FCP) 
devices for a given HBA port. The maximum limit for mappings was set to 512 and 
only that much memory was allocated. When the number of mappings returned was 
greater than 512, the function that prints this information used to try to 
access the entries beyond that limit, which resulted in core dumps.

RESOLUTION:
The code has been changed to allocate enough memory for all the mappings 
returned by HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping().

* 2892716 (Tracking ID: 2753954)

SYMPTOM:
When cable is disconnected from one port of a dual-port FC HBA, only 
paths going through the port should be marked as SUSPECT. But paths going 
through other port are also getting marked as SUSPECT.

DESCRIPTION:
Disconnection of a cable from a HBA port generates a FC event. 
When the event is generated, paths of all ports of the corresponding HBA are 
marked as SUSPECT.

RESOLUTION:
The code changes are done to mark the paths only going through the 
port on which FC event is generated.

* 2922770 (Tracking ID: 2866997)

SYMPTOM:
After applying Solaris patch 147440-20, disk initialization using vxdisksetup 
command fails with following error, 

VxVM vxdisksetup ERROR V-5-2-43 <disk>: Invalid disk
device for vxdisksetup

DESCRIPTION:
A un-initialized variable gets a different value after OS patch installation, 
thereby making vxparms command outputs give an incorrect result.

RESOLUTION:
Initialize the variable with correct value.

* 2922798 (Tracking ID: 2878876)

SYMPTOM:
vxconfigd, VxVM configuration daemon dumps core with the following stack.

vol_cbr_dolog ()
vol_cbr_translog ()
vold_preprocess_request () 
request_loop ()
main     ()

DESCRIPTION:
This core is a result of a race between two threads which are processing the 
requests from the same client. While one thread completed processing a request 
and is in the phase of releasing the memory used, other thread is processing a 
request "DISCONNECT" from the same client. Due to the race condition, the 
second thread attempted to access the memory which is being released and dumped 
core.

RESOLUTION:
The issue is resolved by protecting the common data of the client by a mutex.

* 2924117 (Tracking ID: 2911040)

SYMPTOM:
Restore operation from a cascaded snapshot succeeds even when it's one
of the source is inaccessible. Subsequently, if the primary volume is made
accessible for operation, IO operations may fail on the volume as the source of
the volume is inaccessible. Deletion of snapshots would as well fail due to
dependency of the primary volume on the snapshots. In such case, following error
is thrown when try to remove any snapshot using 'vxedit rm' command:
""VxVM vxedit ERROR V-5-1-XXXX Volume YYYYYY has dependent volumes"

DESCRIPTION:
When a snapshot is restored from any snapshot, the snapshot becomes
the source of data for regions on primary volume that differ between the two
volumes. If the snapshot itself depends on some other volume and that volume is
not accessible, effectively primary volume becomes inaccessible after restore
operation. In such case, the snapshots cannot be deleted as the primary volume
depends on it.

RESOLUTION:
If a snapshot or any later cascaded snapshot is inaccessible,
restore from that snapshot is prevented.

* 2924188 (Tracking ID: 2858853)

SYMPTOM:
In CVM(Cluster Volume Manager) environment, after master switch, vxconfigd 
dumps core on the slave node (old master) when a disk is removed from the disk 
group.

dbf_fmt_tbl()
voldbf_fmt_tbl()
voldbsup_format_record()
voldb_format_record()
format_write()
ddb_update()
dg_set_copy_state()
dg_offline_copy()
dasup_dg_unjoin()
dapriv_apply()
auto_apply()
da_client_commit()
client_apply()
commit()
dg_trans_commit()
slave_trans_commit()
slave_response()
fillnextreq()
vold_getrequest()
request_loop()
main()

DESCRIPTION:
During master switch, disk group configuration copy related flags are not 
cleared on the old master, hence when a disk is removed from a disk group, 
vxconfigd dumps core.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary code changes have been made to clear configuration copy related flags 
during master switch.

* 2924207 (Tracking ID: 2886402)

SYMPTOM:
When re-configuring dmp devices, typically using command 'vxdisk scandisks', 
vxconfigd hang is observed. Since it is in hang state, no VxVM(Veritas volume 
manager)commands are able to respond.

Following process stack of vxconfigd was observed.

dmp_unregister_disk
dmp_decode_destroy_dmpnode
dmp_decipher_instructions
dmp_process_instruction_buffer
dmp_reconfigure_db
gendmpioctl
dmpioctl
dmp_ioctl
dmp_compat_ioctl
compat_blkdev_ioctl
compat_sys_ioctl
cstar_dispatch

DESCRIPTION:
When DMP(dynamic multipathing) node is about to be destroyed, a flag is set to 
hold any IO(read/write) on it. The IOs which may come in between the process of 
setting flag and actual destruction of DMP node, are placed in dmp queue and are
never served. So the hang is observed.

RESOLUTION:
Appropriate flag is set for node which is to be destroyed so that any IO after
marking flag will be rejected so as to avoid hang condition.

* 2930399 (Tracking ID: 2930396)

SYMPTOM:
The vxdmpasm/vxdmpraw command does not work on Solaris. For 
example:

#vxdmpasm enable user1 group1 600 emc0_02c8
expr: syntax error
/etc/vx/bin/vxdmpasm: test: argument expected

#vxdmpraw enable user1 group1 600 emc0_02c8
expr: syntax error
/etc/vx/bin/vxdmpraw: test: argument expected

DESCRIPTION:
The "length" function of expr command does not work on 
Solaris.
This function was used in the script and used to give error.

RESOLUTION:
The expr command has been replaced by awk command.

* 2933467 (Tracking ID: 2907823)

SYMPTOM:
Unconfiguring devices in 'failing' or 'unusable' state (as shown by cfgadm
utility) cannot be done using VxVM Dynamic reconfiguration(DR) tool.

DESCRIPTION:
If devices are not removed properly then they can be in 'failing' or 'unusable'
state as shown below:

c1::5006048c5368e580, 255       disk         connected    configured   failing
c1::5006048c5368e580, 326       disk         connected    configured   unusable

Such devices are ignored by DR Tool, and they need to be manually unconfigured 
using cgadm utility.

RESOLUTION:
To fix this, code changes are done so that DR Tool asks user if they wants to 
unconfigure 'failed' or 'unusable' devices and takes action accordingly.

* 2933468 (Tracking ID: 2916094)

SYMPTOM:
These are the issues for which enhancements are done:
1. All the DR operation logs are accumulated in one log file 'dmpdr.log', and 
this file grows very large.
2. If a command takes long time, user may think DR operations have stuck.
3. Devices controlled by TPD are seen in list of luns that can be removed
in 'Remove Luns' operation.

DESCRIPTION:
1. All the logs of DR operations accumulate and form one big log file which 
makes it difficult for user to get to the current DR operation logs.
2. If a command takes time, user has no way to know whether the command has 
stuck.
3. Devices controlled by TPD are visible to user which makes him think that he 
can remove those devices without removing them from TPD control.

RESOLUTION:
1. Now every time user opens DR Tool, a new log file of form
dmpdr_yyyymmdd_HHMM.log is generated.
2. A messages is displayed to inform user if a command takes longer time than 
expected.
3. Changes are made so that devices controlled by TPD are not visible during DR
operations.

* 2933469 (Tracking ID: 2919627)

SYMPTOM:
While doing 'Remove Luns' operation of Dynamic Reconfiguration Tool, there is no
feasible way to remove large number of LUNs, since the only way to do so is to
enter all LUN names separated by comma.

DESCRIPTION:
When removing luns in bulk during 'Remove Luns' option of Dynamic
Reconfiguration Tool, it would not be feasible to enter all the luns separated
by comma.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done in Dynamic Reconfiguration scripts to accept file
containing luns to be removed as input.

* 2934259 (Tracking ID: 2930569)

SYMPTOM:
The LUNs in 'error' state in output of 'vxdisk list' cannot be removed through
DR(Dynamic Reconfiguration) Tool.

DESCRIPTION:
The LUNs seen in 'error' state in VM(Volume Manager) tree are not listed by
DR(Dynamic Reconfiguration) Tool while doing 'Remove LUNs' operation.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary changes have been made to display LUNs in error state while doing
'Remove LUNs' operation in DR(Dynamic Reconfiguration) Tool.

* 2940447 (Tracking ID: 2940446)

SYMPTOM:
I/O can hang on volume with space optimized snapshot if the underlying cache 
object is of very large size. It can also lead to data corruption in cache-
object.

DESCRIPTION:
Cache volume maintains B+ tree for mapping the offset and its actual location 
in cache object. Copy-on-write I/O generated on snapshot volumes needs to 
determine the offset of particular I/O in cache object. Due to incorrect type-
casting the value calculated for large offset truncates to smaller value due to 
overflow, leading to data corruption.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to avoid overflow during offset calculation in cache 
object.

* 2941167 (Tracking ID: 2915751)

SYMPTOM:
Solaris machine panics while resizing CDS-EFI LUN or CDS VTOC to EFI conversion
case where new size of resize is greater than 1TB.

DESCRIPTION:
While resizing a disk having CDS-EFI format or while resizing a CDS disk from less
than 1TB to >= 1TB, machine panics because of the incorrect use of device numbers.
VxVM uses the whole slice number s0 instead of s7 which represents the whole
device for EFI format. Hence, the device open fails and the incorrect disk
maxiosize was populated. While doing an I/O, machine panics with divide by zero
error.

RESOLUTION:
While resizing a disk having CDS-EFI format or while resizing a CDS disk from less
than 1TB to >= 1TB, VxVM now correctly uses device number corresponding to
partition 7 of the device.

* 2941193 (Tracking ID: 1982965)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdg import DGNAME <da-name..>" fails when "da-name" used as an input to vxdg
command is based on namingscheme which is different from the prevailing
namingscheme on the host. Error message seen is:

VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-530 Device c6t50060E801002BC73d240 not found in 
configuration
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10978 Disk group x86dg: import failed:
Not a disk access record

DESCRIPTION:
vxconfigd stores Disk Access (DA) records based on DMP names. If "vxdg" passes a
name other than DMP name for the device, vxconfigd cannot map it to a DA record.
As vxconfigd cannot locate a DA record corresponding to passed input name from
vxdg, it fails the import operation.

RESOLUTION:
vxdg command now converts the input name to DMP name before passing it to
vxconfigd for further processing.

* 2941226 (Tracking ID: 2915063)

SYMPTOM:
System panic with following stack during detaching plex of volume in CVM 
environment.

vol_klog_findent()
vol_klog_detach()
vol_mvcvm_cdetsio_callback()
vol_klog_start()
voliod_iohandle()
voliod_loop()

DESCRIPTION:
During plex-detach operation VxVM searches the plex object to be detached in 
kernel. In case if there is some transaction in progress on any diskgroup in 
the system, incorrect plex object gets selected sometime, which results into 
dereference of invalid address and panics the system.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes done to make sure that correct plex object is getting selected.

* 2941234 (Tracking ID: 2899173)

SYMPTOM:
In CVR environment, SRL failure may result into vxconfigd hang and eventually
resulting into 'vradmin stoprep' command hang.

DESCRIPTION:
'vradmin stoprep' command is hung because vxconfigd is waiting indefinitely in
transaction. Transaction was waiting for IO completion on SRL. 
We generate error handler to handle IO failure on SRL. But if we are in
transaction, this error was not getting handled properly resulting into
transaction hang.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is provided such that when SRL failure is encountered, transaction itself 
handles IO error on SRL.

* 2941237 (Tracking ID: 2919318)

SYMPTOM:
In a CVM environment with fencing enabled, wrong fencing keys are registered for
opaque disks during node join or dg import operations.

DESCRIPTION:
During cvm node join and shared dg import code path, when opaque disk 
registration happens, fencing keys in internal dg records are not in sync with
actual keys generated. This was causing wrong fencing keys registered for opaque
disks. For rest disks fencing key registration happens correctly.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to copy correctly generated key to internal dg record for current dg
import/node join scenario and use it for disk registration.

* 2941252 (Tracking ID: 1973983)

SYMPTOM:
Relocation is failing with following error when DCO(data change 
object) plex is in disabled state.
VxVM vxrelocd ERROR V-5-2-600 Failure recovering <DCO> in disk group <diskgroup>

DESCRIPTION:
When a mirror-plex is added to a volume using "vxassist 
snapstart", attached DCO plex can be in DISABLED/DCOSNP state. While recovering 
such DCO plexes, if enclosure is disabled, plex can get in DETACHED/DCOSNP 
state and relocation fails.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to handle DCO plexs in disabled state in 
relocation.

* 2942166 (Tracking ID: 2942609)

SYMPTOM:
You will see following message as error message when quiting from Dynamic
Reconfiguration Tool.
"FATAL: Exiting the removal operation."

DESCRIPTION:
When user quits from an operation, Dynamic Reconfiguration Tool displays it is
quiting as error message.

RESOLUTION:
Made changes to display the message as Info.

* 2944708 (Tracking ID: 1725593)

SYMPTOM:
The 'vxdmpadm listctlr' command does not show the count of device paths seen
through it

DESCRIPTION:
The 'vxdmpadm listctlr' currently does not show the number of device paths seen
through it. The CLI option has been enhanced to provide this information as an
additional column at the end of each line in the CLI's output

RESOLUTION:
The number of paths under each controller is counted and the value is displayed
as the last column in the 'vxdmpadm listctlr' CLI output

* 2944710 (Tracking ID: 2744004)

SYMPTOM:
When VVR is configured, vxconfigd on secondary gets hung. Any vx 
commands issued during this time does not complete.

DESCRIPTION:
Vxconfigd is waiting for IOs to drain before allowing a 
configuration change command to proceed. The IOs never drain completely 
resulting into the hang. This is because there is a deadlock where pending IOs 
are unable to start and vxconfigd keeps waiting for their completion.

RESOLUTION:
Changed the code so that this deadlock does not arise. The IOs can 
be started properly and complete allowing vxconfigd to function properly.

* 2944714 (Tracking ID: 2833498)

SYMPTOM:
vxconfigd daemon hangs in vol_ktrans_commit() while reclaim operation is in 
progress on volumes having instant snapshots. Stack trace is given below:

vol_ktrans_commit
volconfig_ioctl

DESCRIPTION:
Storage reclaim leads to the generation of special IOs (termed as Reclaim IOs), 
which can be very large in size(>4G) and unlike application IOs, these are not 
broken into smaller sized IOs. Reclaim IOs need to be tracked in snapshot maps 
if the volume has full snapshots configured. The mechanism to track reclaim IO 
is not capable of handling such large IOs causing hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to use the alternative mechanism in Volume manager to 
track the reclaim IOs.

* 2944717 (Tracking ID: 2851403)

SYMPTOM:
System panics while unloading 'vxio' module when VxVM SmartMove feature is used
and the "vxportal" module gets reloaded (for e.g. during VxFS package upgrade).
Stack trace looks like:

vxportalclose()
vxfs_close_portal()
vol_sr_unload()
vol_unload()

DESCRIPTION:
During a smart-move operation like plex attach, VxVM opens the 'vxportal' module
to read in-use file system maps information. This file descriptor gets closed
only when 'vxio' module is unloaded. If the 'vxportal' module is unloaded and
reloaded before 'vxio', the file descriptor with 'vxio' becomes invalid and
results in a panic.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to close the file descriptor for 'vxportal' after reading
free/invalid file system map information. This ensures that stale file
descriptors don't get used for 'vxportal'.

* 2944722 (Tracking ID: 2869594)

SYMPTOM:
Master node would panic with following stack after a space optimized snapshot is
refreshed or deleted and master node is selected using 'vxclustadm setmaster'

volilock_rm_from_ils
vol_cvol_unilock
vol_cvol_bplus_walk
vol_cvol_rw_start
voliod_iohandle
voliod_loop
thread_start

In addition to this, all space optimized snapshots on the corresponding cache
object may be corrupted.

DESCRIPTION:
In CVM, the master node owns the responsibility of maintaining the cache object
indexing structure for providing space optimized functionality. When a space
optimized snapshot is refreshed or deleted, the indexing structure would get
rebuilt in background after the operation is returned. When the master node is
switched using 'vxclustadm setmaster' before index rebuild is complete, both old
master and new master nodes would rebuild the index in parallel which results in
index corruption. Since the index is corrupted, the data stored on space 
optimized snapshots should not be trusted. I/Os issued on corrupted index would 
lead to panic.

RESOLUTION:
When the master role is switched using 'vxclustadm setmaster', the index rebuild
on old master node would be safely aborted. Only new master node would be 
allowed to rebuild the index.

* 2944724 (Tracking ID: 2892983)

SYMPTOM:
vxvol command dumps core with the following stack trace, if executed 
parallel to vxsnap addmir command

strcmp()
do_link_recovery
trans_resync_phase1()
vxvmutil_trans()
trans()
common_start_resync()
do_noderecover()
main()

DESCRIPTION:
During creation of link between two volumes if vxrecover is triggered, vxvol 
command may not have information about the newly created links. This leads to 
NULL pointer dereference and dumps core.

RESOLUTION:
The code has been modified to check if links information is 
properly present with vxvol command and fail operation with appropriate error 
message.

* 2944725 (Tracking ID: 2910043)

SYMPTOM:
Frequent swapin/swapout seen due to higher order memory requests

DESCRIPTION:
In VxVM operations such as plex attach, snapshot resync/reattach issue 
ATOMIC_COPY IOCTL's. Default I/O size for these operation is 1MB and VxVM 
allocates this memory from operating system. Memory allocations of such large 
size can results into swapin/swapout of pages and are not very efficient. In 
presence of lot of such operations , system may not work very efficiently.

RESOLUTION:
VxVM has its own I/O memory management module, which allocates pages from 
operating system and efficiently manage them. Modified ATOMIC_COPY code to make 
use of VxVM's internal I/O memory pool instead of directly allocating memory 
from operating system.

* 2944727 (Tracking ID: 2919720)

SYMPTOM:
vxconfigd dumps core in rec_lock1_5() function.

rec_lock1_5()
rec_lock1()
rec_lock()
client_trans_start()
req_vol_trans()
request_loop()
main()

DESCRIPTION:
During any configuration changes in VxVM, vxconfigd locks all involved objects 
in operations to avoid any unexpected modification. Some objects which do not 
belong to the context of current transactions are not handled properly which 
resuls in core dump. This case is particularly seen during snapshots operation 
of cross-dg linked volume snapshots.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to avoid locking of records which are not yet part of the 
committed VxVM configuration.

* 2944729 (Tracking ID: 2933138)

SYMPTOM:
System panics with stack trace given below:

voldco_update_itemq_chunk()
voldco_chunk_updatesio_start()
voliod_iohandle()
voliod_loop()

DESCRIPTION:
While tracking IOs in snapshot MAPS information is stored in-
memory pages. For large sized IOs (such as reclaim IOs), this information can 
span across multiple pages. Sometimes the pages are not properly referenced in 
MAP update for IOs of larger size which lead to panic because of invalid page 
addresses.

RESOLUTION:
Code is modified to properly reference pages during MAP update for 
large sized IOs.

* 2944741 (Tracking ID: 2866059)

SYMPTOM:
When disk resize fails, following messages can appear on screen:
1. "VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device <device-name>: resize failed: One or 
more subdisks do not fit in pub reg"
or
2. "VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device <disk-name>: resize failed: Cannot 
remove last disk in disk group"

DESCRIPTION:
In first message extra information should be provided like which 
subdisk is under consideration and what are subdisk and public region lengths 
etc. After vxdisk resize fails with the second message, if -f(force) option is 
used, resize operation succeeds. This message can be improved by suggesting the 
user to use -f (force) option for resizing

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to improve the error messages.

* 2962257 (Tracking ID: 2898547)

SYMPTOM:
vradmind dumps core on VVR (Veritas Volume Replicator) Secondary site in a CVR 
(Clustered Volume Replicator) environment. 
Stack trace would look like:

__kernel_vsyscall
raise
abort
fmemopen
malloc_consolidate
delete
delete[]
IpmHandle::~IpmHandle
IpmHandle::events
main

DESCRIPTION:
When Logowner Service Group is moved across nodes on the Primary Site, it 
induces deletion of IpmHandle of the old Logowner Node, as the IpmHandle of the 
new Logowner Node gets created. During destruction of IpmHandle object, a 
pointer '_cur_rbufp' is not set to NULL, which can lead to freeing up of memory 
which is already freed, and thus, causing 'vradmind' to dump core.

RESOLUTION:
Destructor of IpmHandle is modified to set the pointer to NULL after it is 
deleted.

* 2964567 (Tracking ID: 2964547)

SYMPTOM:
Whenever system reboots, below messages are logged on system console:

Oct 10 19:10:01 sol11_server unix: [ID 779321 kern.notice] vxdmp: unable to resolve 
dependency, 
Oct 10 19:10:01 sol11_server unix: [ID 969242 kern.notice] cannot load 
module 'misc/ted'

DESCRIPTION:
Module 'misc/ted' is part of debug package. It was wrongly getting linked with
vxdmp driver for non-debug builds.

These are harmless messages.

RESOLUTION:
Source makefile was modified to remove this dependency for non-debug packages.

* 2974870 (Tracking ID: 2935771)

SYMPTOM:
Rlinks disconnect after switching the master.

DESCRIPTION:
Sometimes switching a master on the primary can cause the Rlinks to disconnect.
vradmin repstatus would show "paused due to network disconnection" as the
replication status. VVR uses a connection to check if the secondary is alive.
The secondary responds to these requests by replying back, indicating that it 
is alive. On a master switch, the old master fails to close this connection with 
the secondary. Thus after the master switch the old master as well as the new 
master would send the requests to the secondary. This causes a mismatch of 
connection numbers on the secondary and the secondary does not reply to the 
requests of the new master. Thus it causes the Rlinks to disconnect.

RESOLUTION:
The solution is to close the connection of the old master with the secondary, so
that it does not keep sending connection requests to the secondary.

* 2976946 (Tracking ID: 2919714)

SYMPTOM:
On a THIN lun, vxevac returns 0 without migrating unmounted VxFS volumes.  The
following error messages are displayed when an unmounted VxFS volumes is processed:

 VxVM vxsd ERROR V-5-1-14671 Volume v2 is configured on THIN luns and not mounted.
Use 'force' option, to bypass smartmove. To take advantage of smartmove for
supporting thin luns, retry this operation after mounting the volume.
 VxVM vxsd ERROR V-5-1-407 Attempting to cleanup after failure ...

DESCRIPTION:
On a THIN lun, VM will not move or copy data on an unmounted VxFS volumes unless
smartmove is bypassed.  The vxevac command fails needs to be enhanced to detect
unmounted VxFS volumes on THIN luns and to support a force option that allows the
user to bypass smartmove.

RESOLUTION:
The vxevac script has been modified to check for unmounted VxFS volumes on THIN
luns prior to performing the migration. If an unmounted VxFS volume is detected
the command fails with a non-zero return code and displays a message notifying
the user to mount the volumes or bypass smartmove by specifying the force option: 

 VxVM vxevac ERROR V-5-2-0 The following VxFS volume(s) are configured
 on THIN luns and not mounted:

         v2

 To take advantage of smartmove support on thin luns, retry this operation
 after mounting the volume(s).  Otherwise, bypass smartmove by specifying
 the '-f' force option.

* 2976956 (Tracking ID: 1289985)

SYMPTOM:
vxconfigd core dumps upon running "vxdctl enable" command, as vxconfigd is not 
checking the status value returned by the device when it sends SCSI mode sense 
command to the device.

DESCRIPTION:
vxconfigd sends SCSI mode sense command to the device to obtain device 
information, but it only checks the return value of ioctl(). The return value 
of ioctl() only stands if there is an error while sending the command to target 
device. Vxconfigd should also check the value of SCSI status byte returned by 
the device to get the real status of SCSI command execution.

RESOLUTION:
The code has been changed to check the value of SCSI status byte returned by 
the device and it takes appropriate action if status value is nonzero.

* 2976974 (Tracking ID: 2875962)

SYMPTOM:
When an upgrade install is performed from VxVM 5.0MPx to VxVM 5.1(and higher) 
the installtion script may give the following message:
    The following files are already installed on the system and are being
    used by another package:
      /usr/lib/vxvm/root/kernel/drv/vxapm/dmpsvc.SunOS_5.10
    Do you want to install these conflicting files [y, n,?, q]

DESCRIPTION:
A VxVM 5.0MPx patch incorrectly packaged the IBM SanVC APM with a VxVM patch, 
which was subsequently corrected in a later patch. Any upgrade performed from 
that 5.0MPx patch to 5.1 or higher will result in this packaging message.

RESOLUTION:
Added code to the packaging script of the VxVM package to remove the APM files 
so that a conflict between VRTSaslapm and VRTSvxvm packages are resolved.

* 2978189 (Tracking ID: 2948172)

SYMPTOM:
Execution of command "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" can cause hang or panic.

Hang stack trace might look like:
pse_block_thread
pse_sleep_thread
.hkey_legacy_gate
volsiowait
vol_objioctl
vol_object_ioctl
voliod_ioctl
volsioctl_real
volsioctl

Panic stack trace might look like:
voldco_breakup_write_extents
volfmr_breakup_extents
vol_mv_indirect_write_start
volkcontext_process
volsiowait
vol_objioctl
vol_object_ioctl
voliod_ioctl
volsioctl_real
vols_ioctl
vols_compat_ioctl
compat_sys_ioctl
sysenter_dispatch

DESCRIPTION:
Command "vxdisk -o thin, fssize list" triggers reclaim I/Os to get file system
usage from veritas file system on veritas volume manager mounted volumes. We
currently do not support reclamation on volumes with space optimized (SO) snapshots.
But because of a bug, reclaim IOs continue to execute for volumes with SO
Snapshots leading to system panic/hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to not to allow reclamation IOs to proceed on volumes with
SO Snapshots.

* 2979767 (Tracking ID: 2798673)

SYMPTOM:
System panic is observed with the stacktrace given below:

voldco_alloc_layout
voldco_toc_updatesio_done
voliod_iohandle
voliod_loop

DESCRIPTION:
DCO (data change object) contains metadata information required to 
start DCO volume and decode further information from the DCO volume. This 
information is stored in the 1st block of DCO volume. If this metadata 
information is incorrect/corrupted, the further processing of volume start 
resulted into panic due to divide-by-zero error in kernel.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to verify the correctness of DCO volumes 
metadata information during startup. If the information read is incorrect, 
volume start operations fails.

* 2983679 (Tracking ID: 2970368)

SYMPTOM:
SRDF-R2 WD(write-disabled)devices are shown in error state and lots of path
enable/disable messages are generated in /etc/vx/dmpevents.log file.

DESCRIPTION:
DMP(dynamic multi-pathing driver) disables the paths of write protected devices.
Therefore these devices are shown in error state. Vxattachd daemon tries to
online these devices and executes partial device discovery for these devices. As
part of partial device discovery, enabling and disabling the paths of such write
protected devices generate lots of path enable/disable messages in
/etc/vx/dmpevents.log file.

RESOLUTION:
This issue is addressed by not disabling paths of write protected devices in DMP.

* 3004823 (Tracking ID: 2692012)

SYMPTOM:
When moving subdisks using vxassist move (or using vxevac command which
in turn call vxassist move), if the disk tag are not same for source &
destination, the command used to fail with generic message which does not convey
exactly why the operation failed.

You will see following generic message:
VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-438 Cannot allocate space to replace subdisks

DESCRIPTION:
When moving subdisks using vxassist move, it uses available disks 
from disk group to move, if no target disk is specified. If these disks have 
site tag set and value of site tag attribute is not same, then vxassist move is 
expected to fail. But it fails with generic message that does not specify why 
the operation failed. Expectation is to introduce message that precisely convey 
user why the operation failed.

RESOLUTION:
New message is introduced which precisely conveys that disk failure 
is due to site tag attribute mismatch.

You will see following message along with the generic message that conveys the
actual reason for failure:
VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-0 Source and/or target disk belongs to site, can not 
move over sites

* 3004852 (Tracking ID: 2886333)

SYMPTOM:
"vxdg(1M) join" command allowed mixing clone and non-clone disk group. 
Subsequent import of new joined disk group fails.

DESCRIPTION:
Mixing of clone and non-clone disk group is not allowed. The part of the code
where join operation is done is not validating the mix of clone and non-clone 
disk group and it was going ahead with the operation. This resulted in the new
joined disk group having mix of clone & non-clone disks. Subsequent import of
new joined disk group fails.

RESOLUTION:
During disk group join operation, both the disk groups are checked, if there is 
a mix of clone and non-clone disk group found, the join operation is failed.

* 3005921 (Tracking ID: 1901838)

SYMPTOM:
After addition of a license key that enables multi-pathing, the state of the
controller is still shown as DISABLED in the vxdmpadm CLI output.

DESCRIPTION:
When the multi-pathing license key is added, the state of active paths of a LUN is
changed to ENABLED but the state of the controller is not updated.

RESOLUTION:
As a fix, whenever multipathing license key is installed, the operation updates
the state of the controller in addition to that of the LUN paths.

* 3006262 (Tracking ID: 2715129)

SYMPTOM:
Vxconfigd hangs during Master takeover in a CVM (Clustered Volume Manager) 
environment. This results in vx command hang.

DESCRIPTION:
During Master takeover, VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) kernel signals Vxconfigd 
with the information of new Master. Vxconfigd then proceeds with a vxconfigd-
level handshake with the nodes across the cluster. Before kernel could signal 
to vxconfigd, vxconfigd handshake mechanism got started, resulting in the hang.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are done to ensure that vxconfigd handshake gets started only upon 
receipt of signal from the kernel.

* 3011391 (Tracking ID: 2965910)

SYMPTOM:
vxassist dumps core with following stack:
setup_disk_order()
volume_alloc_basic_setup()
fill_volume()
setup_new_volume()
make_trans()
vxvmutil_trans()
trans()
transaction()
do_make()
main()

DESCRIPTION:
When -o ordered is used, vxassist handles non-disk parameters in a 
different way. This scenario may result in invalid comparison, leading to a 
core dump.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are made to handle the parameter comparison logic 
properly.

* 3011444 (Tracking ID: 2398416)

SYMPTOM:
vxassist dumps core with the following stack:
 merge_attributes()
 get_attributes()
 do_make()
 main()
 _start()

DESCRIPTION:
vxassist dumps core while creating volume when 
attribute 'wantmirror=ctlr' is added to the '/etc/default/vxassist' file. 
vxassist reads this default file initially and uses the attributes specified to 
allocate the storage during the volume creation. However, during the merging of 
attributes specified in the default file, it accesses NULL attribute structure 
causing the core dump.

RESOLUTION:
Necessary code changes have been done to check the attribute
structure pointer before accessing it.

* 3020087 (Tracking ID: 2619600)

SYMPTOM:
Live migration of virtual machine having SFHA/SFCFSHA stack with data disks 
fencing enabled, causes service groups configured on virtual machine to fault.

DESCRIPTION:
After live migration of virtual machine having SFHA/SFCFSHA stack with data 
disks fencing enabled is done, I/O fails on shared SAN devices with reservation 
conflict and causes service groups to fault. 

Live migration causes SCSI initiator change. Hence I/O coming from migrated 
server to shared SAN storage fails with reservation conflict.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes are added to check whether the host is fenced off from cluster. If 
host is fenced off, then registration key is re-registered for dmpnode through 
migrated server and restart IO.

* 3025973 (Tracking ID: 3002770)

SYMPTOM:
The system panics with the following stack trace:

vxdmp:dmp_aa_recv_inquiry
vxdmp:dmp_process_scsireq
vxdmp:dmp_daemons_loop
unix:thread_start

DESCRIPTION:
The panic happens while handling the SCSI response for SCSI Inquiry command. 
In order to determine if the path on which SCSI Inquiry command was issued is 
read-only, the code needs to check the error buffer. However the error buffer is 
not always prepared. So the code should examine if the error buffer is valid 
before further checking. Without such error buffer examination, the system may 
panic with NULL pointer.

RESOLUTION:
The source code is modified to verify the error buffer to be valid.

* 3026288 (Tracking ID: 2962262)

SYMPTOM:
When DMP Native Stack support is enabled and some devices are being managed by 
a multipathing solution other than DMP, then uninstalling DMP fails with an 
error for not being able to turn off DMP Native Stack support.

 Performing DMP prestop tasks ...................................... Done
The following errors were discovered on the systems:
CPI ERROR V-9-40-3436 Failed to turn off dmp_native_support tunable on
pilotaix216. Refer to Dynamic Multi-Pathing Administrator's guide to determine
the reason for the failure and take corrective action.
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15690 Operation failed for one or more volume groups


The CLI 'vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=off' also fails with following 
error.

# vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=off
VxVM vxdmpadm ERROR V-5-1-15690 Operation failed for one or more volume groups

DESCRIPTION:
With DMP Native Stack support it is expected that devices which are being used 
by LVM are multipathed by DMP. Co-existence with other multipath solutions in 
such cases is not supported. Having some other multipath solution results in 
this error.

RESOLUTION:
Code changes have been made to not error out while turning off DMP Native 
Support if device is not being managed by DMP.

* 3027482 (Tracking ID: 2273190)

SYMPTOM:
The device discovery commands 'vxdisk scandisks' or 'vxdctl enable' issued just
after license key installation may fail and abort.

DESCRIPTION:
After addition of license key that enables multi-pathing, the state of paths
maintained at user level is incorrect.

RESOLUTION:
As a fix, whenever multi-pathing license key is installed, the operation 
updates 
the state of paths both at user level and kernel level.



INSTALLATION PRE-REQUISITES
---------------------------
VRTSvxvm 6.0.300.200 requires VRTSaslapm version 06.00.0100.0202 or higher as a prerequisite. Make sure to install VRTSaslapm version 06.00.0100.0202 at https://sort.symantec.com/asl/details/644.


INSTALLING THE PATCH
--------------------
o Before-the-upgrade :-
  (a) Stop applications using any VxVM volumes.
  (b) Stop I/Os to all the VxVM volumes.
  (c) Umount any filesystems with VxVM volumes.
  (d) In case of multiple boot environments, boot using the BE you wish to install the patch on.
For Solaris 11 release, refer to the man pages for instructions on using install and uninstall options of 'pkg' command provided with Solaris.
Any other special or non-generic installation instructions should be described below as special instructions.
The following example installs a patch to a standalone machine:
        example# pkg install --accept -g /patch_location/VRTSvxvm.p5p VRTSvxvm
After 'pkg install' please follow mandatory configuration steps mentioned in special instructions


REMOVING THE PATCH
------------------
The following example removes a patch from a standalone system:
        example# pkg uninstall VRTSvxvm
Note: Uninstalling the patch will remove the entire package. If you need earlier version of the package, install it f
rom the original source media.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
--------------------
1) Delete '.vxvm-configured'
    # rm  /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/.vxvm-configured
2) Refresh vxvm-configure
    # svcadm refresh vxvm-configure
3) Delete  'install-db'
    # rm /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db
4) Reboot the system using shutdown command.
You need to use the shutdown command to reboot the system after patch installation or de-installation:


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