> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: 'Neil Horman'; [email protected]
> Cc: ISS StorageDev; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to
> unsent scsi commands after kexec reboot
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Horman [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:31 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); ISS StorageDev;
> [email protected];
> > [email protected]
> > Subject: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to unsent scsi
> > commands after kexec reboot
> >
> > Hey -
> > cciss hardware currently can continue to send responses to scsi
> > commands after the host system has undergone a kexec
> reboot. The way
> > the drier is currently written, reception of these commands
> results in
> > a BUG halt, since it can't match the response to any issued command
> > since the boot. This patch corrects that by using the kexec
> > reset_devices command line paramter to force ignore any
> commands that
> > it cant correlate.
> >
> > Regards
> > Neil
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Nacked-by: Mike Miller <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > cciss.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index
> > 5acc6c4..ec1c1d2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > @@ -2131,6 +2131,14 @@ static int add_sendcmd_reject(__u8 cmd, int
> > ctlr, unsigned long complete)
> > ctlr, complete);
> > /* not much we can do. */
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
> > + /* We might get notification of completion of commands
> > + * which we never issued in this kernel if this boot is
> > + * taking place after previous kernel's crash. Simply
> > + * ignore the commands in this case.
> > + */
> > + if (reset_devices)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > return 1;
> > }
> >
> I don't understand how this will help. We need to reset the
> controller which reset_devices cannot do alone. I just
> haven't have the time to implement the fix yet.
>
> mikem
>
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