Re: How to cleanly shut down a block device

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> I think you are making this way too complicated, it's actually pretty
> simple: you call blk_put_queue() or blk_cleanup_queue() (same thing)
> when _you_ drop your reference to the queue. That's just normal cleanup.
> When a device goes away, you make sure that you know about this. I said
> that SCSI clears q->queuedata, so it knows that when ->request_fn is
> invoked with a NULL q->queuedata (where it stores the device pointer),
> the device is not there and the request should just be flushed to
> heaven.
>   

What about the gendisk object? Since I assigned the queue pointer to it,
it didn't naturally get a chance to increase the reference count. When
can I safely drop my reference without the gendisk getting upset?

> Don't make any assumptions about when request_fn will be called or not.
> That's bound to be racy anyway.
>
>   

Things get a bit muddy by the fact that the mmc layer has a thread that
handles the queue. So I guess we need to have a way to shut down that
thread, but still be able to throw away any stray requests from the
block layer?

Rgds

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