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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
To: "James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com"
	<James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"martin.petersen@oracle.com" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Avoid that __scsi_remove_device() hangs
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:50:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493232656.2632.7.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425205354.21181-1-bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>

On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 13:53 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> __scsi_remove_device() hangs if it is waiting for the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE
> command submitted by the sd driver to finish if the block layer queue is
> stopped and does not get restarted. This patch series avoids that that
> hang occurs.
> [ ... ]

Hello Martin and James,

Even with this version of this patch series there is still a lockup possible,
namely if the sd events checker submits a TUR while a SCSI device is blocked
and before __scsi_remove_device() calls device_del(). The latter function
namely waits for sd_check_events() to finish.

Bart.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-26 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25 20:53 [PATCH v5 0/4] Avoid that __scsi_remove_device() hangs Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] Introduce scsi_start_queue() Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] Introduce scsi_execute_async() Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] sd: Make synchronize cache upon shutdown asynchronous Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] Avoid that __scsi_remove_device() hangs Bart Van Assche
2017-04-26 18:50 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]

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