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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: block ioctls if controller not in a live state
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 07:17:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180514141734.GA26302@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06b65874-8bc8-b532-ad98-44e64b8440b8@broadcom.com>

On Wed, May 09, 2018@09:29:13AM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> 
> That is the exact intent.? I do want the app to trigger off -EAGAIN in those
> two states and try again after a delay./? Perhaps I should change from !LIVE
> to NEW || RESETTING || CONNECTING to be more explicit.? I assumed !LIVE was
> sufficient as the other states should transition to LIVE or the delete path
> is taken which would remove the fd all together.

The problem is that userspace reasonably expects to be able to call
poll/select when used on a character device and it gets -EAGAIN.

Maybe the right solution here is to just do a wait_event_interruptible to
wait for the controller being live.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-14 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-07 22:55 [PATCH] nvme: block ioctls if controller not in a live state James Smart
2018-05-08  7:15 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-05-09 23:20   ` James Smart
2018-05-11  5:13     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-05-09  5:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-09 16:29   ` James Smart
2018-05-14 14:17     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-05-14 14:47       ` James Smart
2018-05-14 14:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-12 23:11           ` James Smart
2018-06-13  8:09             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-13 14:56               ` James Smart
2018-05-14 15:23 ` Keith Busch
2018-05-14 15:48   ` James Smart

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