Re: blkdev_issue_discard() hangs forever if the underlying storagedevice is removed

[Bart Van Assche]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The underlying block device driver is supposed to handle timing out
> of lost IOs and causing them to be completed with an error.
> blkdev_issue_discard() is simply waiting for that error to be
> delivered.

Hi Dave,

You're probably right that it's not a block layer issue. This patch
fixed it for me: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=131680195721932&w=2

Bart.
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