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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jthumshirn@suse.de,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:56:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151019155658.GA11453@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56250DF7.6050803@sandisk.com>

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:36:23AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Thanks for looking into this. However, I think we need a motivation in the 
> patch description why this patch does not reintroduce the soft lockup 
> documented in patch "scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot 
> remove" (commit bc3f02a795d3).

Interesting.  I tried to find the original report and what state
changes would cause an endless loop here.  Dan, do you remember any
details about this bug report?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-19 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-19 14:35 [PATCH] scsi: restart list search after unlock in scsi_remove_target Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-19 15:36 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-10-19 15:56   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-10-19 16:01     ` James Bottomley
2015-10-19 17:21     ` Dan Williams
2015-10-26  8:35 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-10-27 20:14   ` Bart Van Assche
2015-10-30  8:26     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-10-27 16:33 ` Johannes Thumshirn

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