RE: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to unsent scsi commands after kexec reboot

["Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: 'Neil Horman'; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: ISS StorageDev; akpm@linux-foundation.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] cciss: force ignore of responses to 
> unsent scsi commands after kexec reboot
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman@tuxdriver.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:31 AM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); ISS StorageDev; 
> akpm@linux-foundation.org; 
> > nhorman@tuxdriver.com
> > 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 <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

Nacked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>

> > 
> > 
> >  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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