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

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 13:23:41 EST


From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>

[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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

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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