Re: exit_aio() hang after I/O failure

Bart Van Assche
2012-01-23T16:47:28Z

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> writes:
> > Apparently processes can hang in exit_aio() with at least kernel 3.2.1
> > after an I/O failure. Has anyone seen this before ?
> >
> > This occurred after a SCSI device had been removed entirely (and hence
> > after all I/O requests were killed by scsi_remove_host()).
>
> Fixed here:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69e4747ee9727d660b88d7e1efe0f4afcb35db1b

Thanks a lot for the feedback - I'll give this patch a try.

Bart.