This patch removes the legacy usage of se_task->task_timer and associated
infrastructure that originally was used as a way to help manage buggy backend
SCSI LLDs that in certain cases would never return back an outstanding task.
This includes the removal of target_complete_timeout_work(), timeout logic
from transport_complete_task(), transport_task_timeout_handler(),
transport_start_task_timer(), the per device task_timeout configfs attribute,
and all task_timeout associated structure members and defines in
target_core_base.h
This is being removed in preparation to make transport_complete_task() run
in lock-less mode.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch converts target-core to use se_cmd->t_transport_sent instead of
a duplicated se_cmd->transport_sent member in a handful of locations.
It also updates iscsi_target to properly use ->t_transport_sent instead of
it's own iscsi_cmd_t->transport_sent value that was not being assigned.
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
If we only have a single task per command (which at least in my testing
is the by far most common case) we do not have to allocate a new per-task
S/G list but can reuse the one from the command.
(nab: Fix BIDI handling in transport_free_dev_tasks)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes a bug for BIDI handling in transport_generic_new_cmd() where
cmd->t_task_cdbs_left and Co. where not taking into account the extra
task count generated during the first call to transport_allocate_data_tasks().
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
There were only two callers, and one of them always wants the call
to transport_allocate_data_tasks anyway. Also drop the constant
lba argument to transport_allocate_data_tasks and move the variables
inside it into the minimum required scope.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
These are two fairly small functions, and merging them gives a much
more readable control flow, and opportunities for more useful comments.
It also moves all code related to resources allocation closer together
and allows to remove a forward declaration for transport_allocate_tasks.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This field is never used given that BIDI handling happens at the
command and not the task level. Remove it and the dead code in
pscsi that tries to work on it.
It also prevents pSCSI passthrough for the two currently enabled BIDI
commands now that task->task_sg_bidi support has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Remove the now unnecessary extra call to transport_subsystem_check_init() in
target_core_register_fabric(), and also merge transport_subsystem_reqmods()
directly into transport_subsystem_check_init().
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Instead of abusing the target processing thread for offloading I/O
completion in the backends to user context add a new workqueue. This means
completions can be processed as fast as available CPU time allows it,
including in parallel with other completions and more importantly I/O
submission or QUEUE FULL retries. This should give much better performance
especially on loaded systems.
As a fallout we can merge all the completed states into a single
one.
On the downside this change complicates lun reset handling a bit by
requiring us to cancel a work item only for those states that have it
initialized. The alternative would be to either always initialize the work
item to a dummy handler, or always use the same handler and do a switch on
the state. The long term solution will be a flag that says that the command
has an initialized work item, but that's only going to be useful once we
have more users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We never check for this state, and it makes testing for a completed
state much harder given that it overrides the existing state.
Also remove the unused deferred_t_state which is related to it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We never queue an command with this state, and only set it in a completely
bogus place in tcm_fc.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We only need to decrement dev->depth_left if failing a command from
__transport_execute_tasks. Instead of doing it first thing in
transport_generic_request_failure and requiring a pseudo-flag argument
for it just opencode the decrement in the two callers (which should
be factored into a single one anyway)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Currently we stop the timers for all tasks in a command fairly late during
I/O completion, which is fairly pointless and requires all kinds of safety
checks.
Instead delete pending timers early on in transport_complete_task, thus
ensuring no new timers firest after that. We take t_state_lock a bit later
in that function thus making sure currenly running timers are out of the
criticial section. To be completely sure the timer has finished we also
add another del_timer_sync call when freeing the task.
This also allows removing TF_TIMER_RUNNING as it would be equivalent
to TF_ACTIVE now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
TF_TIMER_STOP is useless as it only helps to mitigate a tiny race during
deleting the timer. But given that we have cleared TF_ACTIVE at this point
we already have another mitigation a few lines down the function.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
list_for_each_entry_safe only protects against deletions from the list,
but not against any concurrent modifications. Given that we drop
t_state_lock inside the loop it is not safe in transport_free_dev_tasks.
Instead of use a local dispose_list that we move all tasks that are
to be deleted to. This is safe because we never do list_emptry checks
on t_list to check if a command is on the list anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Change one remaining user of transport_cmd_check_stop(cmd, 2, 0) to the
transport_cmd_check_stop_to_fabric wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We always operated on the same queue, so move finding it into the function,
just like we do for all other helpers operating on it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Add a new boolean at_head parameter to transport_add_cmd_to_queue and thus
obsolete the SCF_EMULATE_QUEUE_FULL flag.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Remove the need for the transport_qf_callback callback by making
sure we have specific states with specific handlers for the two
queue full cases.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Add a switch statement implementing the CDB LBA/len update directly
in target_get_task_cdb and remove the old ->transport_split_cdb
callback and all its implementations.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Instead of calling out to the backends from the core to get a per-task
CDB and then modify it for the LBA/len pair used for this CDB provide
a helper that writes the adjusted CDB into a provided buffer and call
this method from ->do_task in pscsi.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
The most commonly used file, iblock and rd backends have no use for
a per-task CDB and thus don't need a method to copy it into their
otherwise unused CDB fields.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This is a squashed version of the following unnecessary se_task structure
member removal patches:
target: remove the task_execute_queue field in se_task
Instead of using a separate flag we can simply do list_emptry checks
on t_execute_list if we make sure to always use list_del_init to remove
a task from the list. Also factor some duplicate code into a new
__transport_remove_task_from_execute_queue helper.
target: remove the read-only task_no field in se_task
The task_no field never was initialized and only used in debug printks,
so kill it.
target: remove the task_padded_sg field in se_task
This field is only check in one place and not actually needed there.
Rationale:
- transport_do_task_sg_chain asserts that we have task_sg_chaining
set early on
- we only make use of the sg_prev_nents field we calculate based on it
if there is another sg list that gets chained onto this one, which
never happens for the last (or only) task.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Replace various atomic_t variables that were mostly under t_state_lock
with new flags in task_flags. Note that the execution error path
didn't take t_state_lock before, so add it there.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This is a squashed version of the following se_task cleanup patches:
target: remove the unused task_state_flags field in se_task
target: remove the unused se_obj_ptr field in se_task
target: remove the se_dev field in se_task
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This is a squashed version of the following target_core_base.h
cleanup patches:
target: remove the unused SHUTDOWN_SIGS defintion
target: remove unused se_mem leftovers
target: remove the unused map_func_t typedef
target: move TRANSPORT_IOV_DATA_BUFFER to the iscsi-specific code
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch removes the legacy device active I/O shutdown code that was
originally called from transport_processing_thread() context during shutdown
including transport_processing_shutdown() and transport_release_all_cmds().
This is due to the fact that in modern configfs control plane code by the
time shutdown of an se_device instance in transport_processing_thread()
is allowed to occur via:
rmdir /sys/kernel/config/target/core/$HBA/$DEV
all active I/O will already have been ceased while removing active configfs
fabric Port/LUN symlinks. Eg: the removal of an active se_device is protected
by inter-module VFS references from active Port/LUN symlinks.
Two WARN_ON() checks have been added in their place before exiting
transport_processing_thread() to watch out for any leaked descriptors.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch merges transport_cmd_finish_abort_tmr() logic into a single
transport_cmd_finish_abort() function by adding a cmd->se_tmr_req check
around transport_lun_remove_cmd(), and updates the single caller within
core_tmr_drain_tmr_list().
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch converts se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks(se_cmd, 1) usage to use
transport_generic_free_cmd() directly in target-core and iscsi-target fabric
usage. The includes:
*) Removal of the optional transport_generic_free_cmd() call from within
transport_generic_wait_for_tasks()
*) Usage of existing SCF_SUPPORTED_SAM_OPCODE to determine when
transport_generic_wait_for_tasks() processing may occur instead of
checking se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks()
*) Move transport_generic_wait_for_tasks() call ahead of core_dec_lacl_count()
and transport_lun_remove_cmd() in transport_generic_free_cmd() to follow
existing logic for iscsi-target w/ se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks(se_cmd, 1)
*) Removal of se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks() function pointer
*) Rename transport_generic_wait_for_tasks() -> transport_wait_for_tasks(), and
add docbook comment.
*) Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for transport_wait_for_tasks()
For the case in iscsi_target_erl2.c:iscsit_prepare_cmds_for_realligance()
where se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks(se_cmd, 0) is called, this patch
adds a direct call to transport_wait_for_tasks().
(hch: Fix transport_generic_free_cmd() usage in iscsit_release_commands_from_conn)
(nab: Add patch: Ensure that TMRs hit wait_for_tasks logic during release)
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
The cdb_none, map_data_SG and map_control_SG methods have no callers left
and can be removed now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch removes the unnecessary session_reinstatement parameter from
se_cmd->transport_wait_for_tasks(), logic in transport_generic_wait_for_tasks,
and usage within iscsi-target code.
This also includes the removal of the 'bool' return from transport_put_cmd() +
transport_generic_free_cmd() that is no longer necessary.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Push session reinstatement out of transport_generic_free_cmd into the only
caller that actually needs it. Clean up transport_generic_free_cmd a bit,
and remove the useless comment. I'd love to add a more useful kerneldoc
comment for it, but as this point I'm still a bit confused in where it
stands in the command release stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
All callers that never have the session_reinstatement flag set can trivially
be converted to transport_put_cmd. Opencode the session reinstatement code
in transport_generic_free_cmd, which was the only caller ever asking for it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Inline two simple functions only used by it, and replace a goto
with a simple if else construct.
Note that the code moved from transport_dec_and_check seems fairly
buggy - the atomic_read check on a variable where we'd do an
atomic_dec_and_test looks racy if we'll ever get someone increment
it without the lock held around them (which it looks like we do),
and not decrementing the second counter if the first one doesn't
hit zero also at least needs an explanation.
(nab: Fix transport_put_cmd breakage)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Instead of duplicating the code from transport_release_fe_cmd re-use it by
allowing transport_release_fe_cmd to return wether it actually freed the
command or not. Also rename transport_release_fe_cmd to transport_put_cmd
and add a kerneldoc comment for it to make the use case more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
It is only called by transport_release_cmd, so inline it there. Also add
a kerneldoc comment for transport_release_cmd while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes a bug where transport_send_task_abort() could be called
during LUN_RESET to return SAM_STAT_TASK_ABORTED + tfo->queue_status(), when
SCF_SENT_CHECK_CONDITION -> tfo->queue_status() has already been sent from
within another context via transport_send_check_condition_and_sense().
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
This patch fixes a bug in LUN_RESET operation with transport_cmd_finish_abort()
where transport_remove_cmd_from_queue() was incorrectly being called, causing
descriptors with t_state == TRANSPORT_FREE_CMD_INTR to be incorrectly removed
from qobj->qobj_list during process context release. This change ensures the
descriptor is only removed via transport_remove_cmd_from_queue() when doing a
direct release via transport_generic_remove().
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
This patch addresses a bug with the lio-core-2.6.git conversion of
transport_add_cmd_to_queue() to use a single embedded list_head, instead
of individual struct se_queue_req allocations allowing a single se_cmd to
be added to the queue mulitple times. This was changed in the following:
commit 2a9e4d5ca5d99f4c600578d6285d45142e7e5208
Author: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Apr 26 17:45:51 2011 -0700
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
The problem is that some target code still assumes performing multiple
adds is allowed via transport_add_cmd_to_queue(), which ends up causing
list corruption in qobj->qobj_list code. This patch addresses this
by removing an existing struct se_cmd from the list before the add, and
removes an unnecessary list walk in transport_remove_cmd_from_queue()
It also changes cmd->t_transport_queue_active to use explict sets intead
of increment/decrement to prevent confusion during exception path handling.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
When work is scheduled with schedule_work(), the work can end up
running on multiple CPUs at the same time -- this happens if
the work is already running on one CPU and schedule_work() is called
on another CPU. This leads to list corruption with target_qf_do_work(),
which is roughly doing:
spin_lock(...);
list_for_each_entry_safe(...) {
list_del(...);
spin_unlock(...);
// do stuff
spin_lock(...);
}
With multiple CPUs running this code, one CPU can end up deleting the
list entry that the other CPU is about to work on.
Fix this by splicing the list entries onto a local list and then
operating on that in the work function. This way, each invocation of
target_qf_do_work() operates on its own local list and so multiple
invocations don't corrupt each other's list. This also avoids dropping
and reacquiring the lock for each list entry.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
At least the tcm_qla2xxx fabric driver calls into transport_deregister_session()
while holding an IRQ-disabled spinlock, so the inner locking needs to
use spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock_bh().
This fixes warnings seen with tcm_qla2xxx like:
WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:159 local_bh_enable_ip+0x98/0xb0()
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8104e65f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff8104e6ba>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff81055368>] local_bh_enable_ip+0x98/0xb0
[<ffffffff814d5284>] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffffa027b7f6>] transport_deregister_session+0x96/0x180 [target_core_mod]
[<ffffffffa00f7731>] tcm_qla2xxx_free_session+0xd1/0x170 [tcm_qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa01b9173>] qla_tgt_sess_put+0xc3/0x140 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa01bf40f>] qla_tgt_stop_phase1+0x8f/0x2c0 [qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa00f735e>] tcm_qla2xxx_tpg_store_enable+0x6e/0xd0 [tcm_qla2xxx]
[<ffffffffa026ca29>] target_fabric_tpg_attr_store+0x39/0x40 [target_core_mod]
[<ffffffffa00a575d>] configfs_write_file+0xbd/0x120 [configfs]
[<ffffffff811464a6>] vfs_write+0xc6/0x180
[<ffffffff811467c1>] sys_write+0x51/0x90
[<ffffffff814dd382>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes two bugs associated with transport_do_task_sg_chain()
operation where transport_allocate_data_tasks() was incorrectly setting
task_padded_sg for all tasks, and causing bogus task->task_sg_nents
assignments + OOPsen with fabrics depending upon this code. The first bit
here adds a task_sg_nents_padded check in transport_allocate_data_tasks()
to include an extra SGL vector when necessary for tasks that expect to
be linked using sg_chain().
The second change involves making transport_do_task_sg_chain() properly
account for the extra SGL vector when task->task_padded_sg is set for
the non trailing ->task_sg or single ->task_sg allocations. Note this
patch also removes the BUG_ON(!task->task_padded_sg) check within
transport_do_task_sg_chain() as we expect this to happen normally
with the updated logic in transport_allocate_data_tasks(), along with
being bogus for CONTROL_SG_IO_CDB type payloads.
So far this bugfix has been tested with tcm_qla2xxx and iblock backends
in (task_count > 1)( and (task_count == 1) operation.
Reported-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Cc: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch addresses recent breakage with multiple se_task (task_count > 1)
operation following backend dev->se_sub_dev->se_dev_attrib.max_sectors in new
transport_allocate_data_tasks() code. The initial bug here was a bogus
task->task_sg_nents assignment in transport_allocate_data_tasks() based on
the passed parameter, which now uses DIV_ROUND_UP(task_size, PAGE_SIZE) to
determine the proper number of per task SGL entries for the (task_count > 1)
case.
This also means we now need to enforce a PAGE_SIZE aligned max_sector count
value for this to work as expected without bringing back the pre v3.1
transport_map_mem_to_sg() logic to handle SGL offsets across multiple tasks.
So this patch adds se_dev_align_max_sectors() to round down max_sectors as
necessary to ensure this alignment via se_dev_set_default_attribs() and
se_dev_align_max_sectors() and keeps it simple for (task_count > 1)
operation.
So far this bugfix has been tested with (task_count > 1) operation
using iscsi-target and iblock backends.
Reported-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch adds the missing transport_cmd_get_valid_sectors() check for
SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB type payloads to ensure that a received LBA + range
does not exeed past the end of associated backend struct se_device.
This patch also fixes a bug in the failure path of transport_new_cmd_obj()
where this check can fail, so change to use a signed 'rc' and return '-EINVAL'
to signal proper transport_generic_request_failure() handling.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE CDB handling bug with IBLOCK/FILEIO
backends where transport_cmd_get_valid_sectors() was incorrectly rejecting
a zero LBA + range CDB from being processed, and returning CHECK_CONDITION.
This includes changing transport_cmd_get_valid_sectors() to return '0' on
success and '-EINVAL' on failure (this makes more sense than sectors),
and to only check transport_cmd_get_valid_sectors() when a non zero LBA +
range SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE operation has been receieved for the non passthrough
case.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
For all flavours of WRITE_SAME, we only expect to handle a single block
of data-out buffer payload, regardless of the number of logical blocks
presented in the CDB. This patch changes all flavours of WRITE_SAME in
transport_generic_cmd_sequencer() to pass '1' into transport_get_size()
instead of the extracted 'sectors' to properly handle the default usage
of sg_write_same without the --xferlen parameter.
Reported-by: Eric Seppanen <eric@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>