From: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
yangxingui <yangxingui@huawei.com>, <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
<martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linuxarm@huawei.com>, <liyihang9@h-partners.com>,
<liuyonglong@huawei.com>, <kangfenglong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 21:27:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78a9384c-7a1d-43b7-a16f-d0bc6863fd1e@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c2341ae-ffda-412a-af7f-5458e621fa33@oracle.com>
在 2025/12/1 20:51, John Garry 写道:
> On 27/11/2025 07:27, yangxingui wrote:
>> Hi, John
>>
>> I'm glad to receive your reply.
>>
>> On 2025/11/27 14:47, John Garry wrote:
>>> On 27/11/2025 00:59, yangxingui wrote:
>>>> Kindly ping for upstream.
>>>>
>>>> On 2025/10/21 15:34, Xingui Yang wrote:
>>>
>>> Your reasons for revert is light on details.
>>>
>>>>> This reverts commit ab2068a6fb84751836a84c26ca72b3beb349619d.
>>>>>
>>>>> As the disk may fall into an abnormal loop of probe when it fails
>>>>> to probe
>>>>> due to physical reasons and cannot be repaired.
>>>
>>> So for a faulty disk we get into a indefinite loop, right?
>> Yes, because a hard reset for SATA disk is executed during the error
>> handler, a BC event will be received after the disk probe fails, and
>> the probe will be re-executed on the disk.
>
> You need to add these details to the commit log.
>
>>>
>>> What about case where this was helping before?
>> A temporary fault injected into the disk or link, which can be
>> recovered after a short time.
>
> I'm ok with this if Jason is...
I think we can merge this patch first and fix the previous issue later
because this issue is more critical. So:
Reviewed-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-01 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-21 7:34 [PATCH] Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed" Xingui Yang
2025-11-27 0:59 ` yangxingui
2025-11-27 6:47 ` John Garry
2025-11-27 7:27 ` yangxingui
2025-12-01 12:51 ` John Garry
2025-12-01 13:27 ` Jason Yan [this message]
2025-12-02 7:00 ` yangxingui
2025-11-27 7:21 ` Jason Yan
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