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* [patch 7/9] s390: fail-fast requests on quiesced devices.
@ 2006-04-03 17:23 Martin Schwidefsky
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From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2006-04-03 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, peter.oberparleiter, linux-kernel

From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>

[patch 7/9] s390: fail-fast requests on quiesced devices.

Using the fail-fast flag in i/o requests on a dasd disk which has
been quiesced leads to kernel panics. Modify the request start
function to only work on requests in a valid state.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/s390/block/dasd.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c	2006-04-03 18:46:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c	2006-04-03 18:46:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -1257,25 +1257,28 @@ __dasd_start_head(struct dasd_device * d
 	if (list_empty(&device->ccw_queue))
 		return;
 	cqr = list_entry(device->ccw_queue.next, struct dasd_ccw_req, list);
-        /* check FAILFAST */
+	if (cqr->status != DASD_CQR_QUEUED)
+		return;
+	/* Non-temporary stop condition will trigger fail fast */
 	if (device->stopped & ~DASD_STOPPED_PENDING &&
 	    test_bit(DASD_CQR_FLAGS_FAILFAST, &cqr->flags) &&
 	    (!dasd_eer_enabled(device))) {
 		cqr->status = DASD_CQR_FAILED;
 		dasd_schedule_bh(device);
+		return;
 	}
-	if ((cqr->status == DASD_CQR_QUEUED) &&
-	    (!device->stopped)) {
-		/* try to start the first I/O that can be started */
-		rc = device->discipline->start_IO(cqr);
-		if (rc == 0)
-			dasd_set_timer(device, cqr->expires);
-		else if (rc == -EACCES) {
-			dasd_schedule_bh(device);
-		} else
-			/* Hmpf, try again in 1/2 sec */
-			dasd_set_timer(device, 50);
-	}
+	/* Don't try to start requests if device is stopped */
+	if (device->stopped)
+		return;
+
+	rc = device->discipline->start_IO(cqr);
+	if (rc == 0)
+		dasd_set_timer(device, cqr->expires);
+	else if (rc == -EACCES) {
+		dasd_schedule_bh(device);
+	} else
+		/* Hmpf, try again in 1/2 sec */
+		dasd_set_timer(device, 50);
 }
 
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