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* [PATCH v8 0/10] More device removal fixes
@ 2013-02-05 12:44 Bart Van Assche
  2013-02-05 12:45 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] Fix race between starved list processing and device removal Bart Van Assche
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  0 siblings, 11 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Bart Van Assche @ 2013-02-05 12:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi, James Bottomley, Mike Christie, Tejun Heo, Chanho Min,
	David Milburn

Fix a few race conditions that can be triggered by removing a device:
- Fix a race between starved list processing and device removal.
- Avoid that a SCSI LLD callback can get invoked after
   scsi_remove_host() finished.
- Speed up device removal by stopping error handling as soon as
   the SHOST_DEL or SHOST_DEL_RECOVERY state has been reached.
- Save and restore the host_scribble field during error handling

These patches have been tested on top of kernel v3.8-rc6 and are also 
available here: 
http://github.com/bvanassche/linux/tree/device-removal-fixes.

Sorry for the delay between v7 and v8 - the past few weeks were really 
hectic.

Changes compared to v7:
- Addressed the review comments posted by Hannes Reinecke and Rolf Eike
   Beer.
- Modified patch "Make scsi_remove_host() wait until error handling
   finished" such that it is also safe for SCSI timeout values below
   the maximum LLD response time by modifying scsi_send_eh_cmnd() such
   that it does not invoke any LLD code after scsi_remove_host() started.
- Added a patch to save and restore the host_scribble field.
- Refined / clarified several patch descriptions.
- Rebased and retested on top of kernel v3.8-rc6.

Changes compared to v6:
- Dropped the first six patches since Jens queued these for 3.8.
- Added patch to avoid that __scsi_remove_device() is invoked twice.
- Restore error recovery in the SHOST_CANCEL state.

Changes compared to v5:
- Avoid that block layer work can be scheduled on a dead queue.
- Do not invoke any SCSI LLD callback after scsi_remove_host() finished.
- Stop error handling as soon as scsi_remove_host() started.
- Remove the unused function bsg_goose_queue().
- Avoid that scsi_device_set_state() triggers a race condition.

Changes compared to v4:
- Moved queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, q) from blk_drain_queue() into
   blk_cleanup_queue().
- Declared the new __blk_run_queue_uncond() function inline. Checked in
   the generated assembler code that this function is really inlined in
   __blk_run_queue().
- Elaborated several patch descriptions.
- Added sparse annotations to scsi_request_fn().
- Split several patches.

Changes compared to v3:
- Fixed a race condition by setting QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD earlier.
- Added a patch for fixing a race between starved list processing
   and device removal to this series.

Changes compared to v2:
- Split second patch into two patches.
- Refined patch descriptions.

Changes compared to v1:
- Included a patch to rename QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD.
- Refined the descriptions of the __blk_run_queue_uncond() and
   blk_cleanup_queue() functions.

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2013-02-05 12:44 [PATCH v8 0/10] More device removal fixes Bart Van Assche
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2013-02-05 12:46 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] Remove get_device() / put_device() pair from scsi_request_fn() Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] Introduce scsi_device_being_removed() Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] Remove offline devices when removing a host Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:48 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] Disallow changing the device state via sysfs into "deleted" Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:49 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] Avoid saving/restoring interrupt state inside scsi_remove_host() Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:49 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] Make scsi_remove_host() wait for device removal Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:50 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] Make scsi_remove_host() wait until error handling finished Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:51 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] Avoid that scsi_device_set_state() triggers a race Bart Van Assche
2013-02-05 12:51 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] Save and restore host_scribble during error handling Bart Van Assche
2013-02-06 22:31 ` [PATCH v8 0/10] More device removal fixes Joe Lawrence
2013-02-07 10:40   ` Bart Van Assche
2013-02-07 11:33   ` Bart Van Assche
2013-02-08 23:29     ` Joe Lawrence
2013-02-09  9:28       ` Bart Van Assche
2013-02-11 20:36         ` Bart Van Assche

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