Mike Anderson wrote:
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 05 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
>>> Commands needing to be retried (TUR in this case) would result in a block
>>> I/O request being re-used, without being re-initialized properly. This
>>> patch ensures that the requests are correctly re-initialized via
>>> standard allocation means.
>>>
>>> Prior to this patch, boots were failing consistently as in:
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/161
>>>
>>> With this patch in place, the system is booting reliably.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
>>> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
>> Looks good.
>>
>> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
>>
>> Perhaps James can push it in, I'm about to shutdown for the day...
>>
> 
> I know a failure was not detected in the hp_sw_start_stop function, but it
> uses the same retry method as hp_sw_tur we should update this function
> also.
> 
> I made a quick scope of callers of blk_get_request and I did not see a
> repeated of this retry usage model. I will make another pass to see if I
> missed something.

drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:cdrom_read_cdda_bpc() is even worse: it gets one
request, then sits in a while loop re-using the same request over and
over again.

Since blk_rq_init() is an exported symbol, perhaps instead of having the
three callers realloc, it _may_ be sufficient to just have them call
that before re-use? (See attached un-tested patch for an example.)

Regards,
Alan