From: sujith_pandel@dell.com (Sujith Pandel)
Subject: [PATCH for-4.4] NVMe: IO ending fixes on surprise removal
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:19:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151218051936.GA9107@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449864868-8216-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com>
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015@02:14:28PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> This patch fixes a lost request discovered during IO + hot removal.
>
> The driver's pci removal deletes gendisks prior to shutting down the
> controller to allow dirty data to sync. Dirty data can not be synced on
> a surprise removal, though, and would potentially block indefinitely.
>
> The driver previously had marked the queue as dying in this scenario
> to prevent new requests from attempting, however it will still block
> for requests that already entered the queue. This patch fixes this by
> quiescing IO first, then aborting the requeued requests before deleting
> disks.
>
> Reported-by: Sujith Pandel <sujith_pandel at dell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Tested this patch against linux-4.4-rc4.
I/O terminated successfully everytime and hotplug-removal is clean i.e
no remnants of the removed NVMe disk is present.
Tested-by: Sujith Pandel <sujith_pandel at dell.com>
Thanks and Regards,
Sujith
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-18 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 20:14 [PATCH for-4.4] NVMe: IO ending fixes on surprise removal Keith Busch
2015-12-13 14:59 ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-12-14 16:29 ` Keith Busch
2015-12-15 15:45 ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-12-18 5:19 ` Sujith Pandel [this message]
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