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The 'nvme show-topology /dev/' form fails on some nvme-cli builds, returning {"error": "Invalid device name"} instead of a valid JSON topology. Additionally, in multi-path subsystems where two controllers (e.g. nvme0 and nvme3) share a namespace (e.g. nvme3n1), the namespace block device is named after only one of the controllers, making a namespace name constructed from controller_name unreliable.

Enhance get_ns_status with a two-stage approach:

Primary path (unchanged behaviour):
nvme show-topology /dev/<controller_name> -o json
Parses the original JSON structure where paths["Name"] matches
the controller name. Returns immediately on success.

Fallback path (new):
nvme show-topology -o json (whole-system, no device argument)
Triggered when the primary path returns an error payload (dict
instead of list), raises JSONDecodeError, or yields no match.
Locates the correct path by matching NSID and Controller.Name
inside the Paths[].Controller[] array, which is unambiguous
across multi-controller subsystems and avoids any namespace
device name construction.

Both paths return [State, ANAState] preserving the existing API.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved NVMe namespace status detection for multipath configurations, including peer controllers and nested topology data.
    • Added a whole-system topology fallback when controller-specific queries fail or return no matching namespace.
    • Improved handling of malformed, incomplete, or unavailable topology data, returning an empty result when fallback data is invalid.
    • Added support for NVMe CLI versions that reject controller-addressed topology queries.
  • Documentation

    • Updated release notes to document the improved NVMe namespace status handling.

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get_ns_status now handles invalid or incomplete controller-specific topology JSON. When that query fails or finds no match, it queries whole-system topology and matches namespace IDs with nested controller names. It returns controller and ANA states, or an empty result for invalid fallback JSON. The release notes document this fix.

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The fallback improves NVMe topology lookup, but incomplete topology records can still cause namespace status collection to fail. The missing-field handling should be corrected before merge.

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Ran it on multiple nvme device with multi-controller and single controller, Didn't observed any issues and no issue with backward compatibility

from avocado.utils import nvme

NVME with Multi-controller

nvme.get_ns_status("nvme0", 1)
['live', 'optimized']
nvme.get_ns_status("nvme3", 1)
['live', 'optimized']
nvme.get_ns_status("nvme2", 1)

NVME with Single-controller

nvme.get_ns_status("nvme4", 1)
['live', 'optimized']

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@maramsmurthy maramsmurthy changed the title utils/nvme: Enhanced get_ns_status to support namespace-based topology falback utils/nvme: Enhanced get_ns_status to support ns topology falback Sep 3, 2026
@maramsmurthy maramsmurthy changed the title utils/nvme: Enhanced get_ns_status to support ns topology falback utils/nvme: Enhanced get_ns_status to support ns topology fallback Sep 3, 2026
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118-118: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Parse decimal namespace IDs with base 10.

int(ns_id_hex, 16) parses "10" as 16. The decimal fallback does not run because digit-only decimal values are valid hexadecimal. This returns wrong namespace IDs when nvme list-ns uses decimal output.

Proposed fix
-                    namespaces.append(int(ns_id_hex, 16))
+                    base = 16 if ns_id_hex.lower().startswith("0x") else 10
+                    namespaces.append(int(ns_id_hex, base))
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326-326: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Query the namespace through the controller device. When a multipath namespace is exposed only through a peer controller, get_current_ns_list(controller_name) can synthesize a nonexistent /dev/<controller_name>n<nsid> path. nvme id-ns can query /dev/<controller_name> with --namespace-id=<nsid>, which avoids the failed query and fallback to incorrect FLBAS assumptions.

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In `@avocado/utils/nvme.py` at line 326, Update the namespace discovery around
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controller device using nvme id-ns with the namespace ID, rather than
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LGTM other than docstring message.
@maramsmurthy Thanks for the PR
@PraveenPenguin please review and merge if you don't have any review comments

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- Line 681: Guard topology records for both State and ANAState before the
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nsid = namespace.get("NSID")
for path in namespace.get("Paths", []):
if nsid == ns_id and path.get("Name") == controller_name:
stat.extend([path["State"], path["ANAState"]])

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Guard incomplete topology records before indexing status fields.

If a matching record lacks State or ANAState, get_ns_status raises KeyError before the whole-system fallback at line 681. The fallback path has the same failure at line 709. Skip incomplete records before calling stat.extend.

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@maramsmurthy This is quite deep nesting, I assume nothing can be done to flatting this some more?

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@pevogam Yes you are true, As it's a json data with nested parameters we don't have an alteranate way to shorten it.

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@pevogam Done few changes as per your inputs, Request you to re-review it.

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The 'nvme show-topology /dev/<controller>' form fails on some nvme-cli
builds, returning {"error": "Invalid device name"} instead of a valid
JSON topology. Additionally, in multi-path subsystems where two
controllers (e.g. nvme0 and nvme3) share a namespace (e.g. nvme3n1),
the namespace block device is named after only one of the controllers,
making a namespace name constructed from controller_name unreliable.

Enhance get_ns_status with a two-stage approach and unified parsing:

- Introduce _iter_topology_paths() generator helper to normalize and
  flatten the topology traversal across differing JSON schemas:
  - Targeted schema: where Name and State reside directly on Path
  - Whole-system schema: where Name and State are nested under Controller[]
- Primary path:
  nvme show-topology /dev/<controller_name> -o json
  Queries targeted controller and extracts state using the helper.
  Returns immediately on match.
- Fallback path:
  nvme show-topology -o json (whole-system, no device argument)
  Triggered when primary path returns an error payload, raises
  JSONDecodeError, or yields no match. Uses the same helper to match
  NSID and Controller.Name unambiguously across multi-controller subsystems.

Both paths return [State, ANAState], preserving existing API and behavior.

Signed-off-by: Maram Srimannarayana Murthy <msmurthy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Re-executed after changing the code

Multi-Controller output

nvme.get_ns_status("nvme0",1)
['live', 'optimized']
nvme.get_ns_status("nvme3",1)
['live', 'optimized']

Single-Controller output

nvme.get_ns_status("nvme4",1)
['live', 'optimized']

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@maramsmurthy thanks for accommodating the suggestions.
LGTM

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Hi @maramsmurthy, this looks better but two points remain from an actual review right now:

  1. Could you provide a unit test for the function in a test_nvme.py file?
  2. Do you think you could later on help us migrate this util to aautils? Better yet, could you help us combine this util and the nvme.py from Avocado VT in aautils?

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