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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] Make __scsi_remove_device go straight from
        BLOCKED to DEL
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 09:18:20 +0200
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Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>, Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>, Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 04:27:05PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> If a device is blocked, make __scsi_remove_device() cause it to
> transition to the DEL state. This means that all the commands
> issued in .shutdown() will error in the mid-layer, thus making
> the removal proceed without being stopped.
> 
> This patch is a slightly modified version of a patch from James
> Bottomley. This patch avoids that the following lockup occurs:

Do we really need the printk for this case?  And if we do we should
probably rate limit it.