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Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch
 

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Symptoms

Cause

Solution

References

Created from <SR 3-9527794808>

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Symptoms

Customer tries to add partition table to recently upgraded IB GW switch running 2.1.3-4

    gw01#  smpartition start
    gw01#  smpartition add -pkey 0x8006 -port 0x0010effccdcc001 -m full
   Wrong value for pkey. Legal value is 1 to 0x7fff 

Cause

bug 15781777 smpartition should only accept pkey without membership bit as input

This bug was fixed for firmware version 2.1.2, but if users previously have hit
this bug, i.e. added pkey with membership bit in a firmware version prior to
firmware version 2.1.2, the partition will work as before even after upgrade to
firmware version 2.1.2 or newer, but users will not be able to change the partitions
(add members, delete members, modify the partition, or remove the partition) which
have the membership bit set.

 

Solution

 Follow the steps in the IB patch 18144395 /SUN_DCS_GW_2.1.3-4/README_pkey_filter to convert partition.current
  to the new format.

  In the old format, the full member partitions start with high order bit set. ie: partition 0x8006
  Resulting in the error "Wrong value for pkey. Legal value is 1 to 0x7fff"

Verify by checking the output of :

gw01:smpartition list active

<snip>

= 0x8006

  After running the script /SUN_DCS_GW_2.1.3-4/pkey_filter.pl you will notice all partitons
  now begin with "0"  so 0x8006 is now 0x0006

  Now run the following:

gw01# smpartition start
gw01# smpartition add -pkey 0x0006 -port 0x0010effccdcc001 -m full
gw01# smpartition list modified (check that GUIDS now under partiton 0x0006)
  = 0x0006:
0x0010effccdcc001;=full,

gw01# smpartition commit    <  updates standby SM
gw01# smpartition list active  < confirm commit

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