linux/include
Martin K. Petersen 18a4d0a22e [SCSI] Handle disk devices which can not process medium access commands
We have experienced several devices which fail in a fashion we do not
currently handle gracefully in SCSI. After a failure these devices will
respond to the SCSI primary command set (INQUIRY, TEST UNIT READY, etc.)
but any command accessing the storage medium will time out.

The following patch adds an callback that can be used by upper level
drivers to inspect the results of an error handling command. This in
turn has been used to implement additional checking in the SCSI disk
driver.

If a medium access command fails twice but TEST UNIT READY succeeds both
times in the subsequent error handling we will offline the device. The
maximum number of failed commands required to take a device offline can
be tweaked in sysfs.

Also add a new error flag to scsi_debug which allows this scenario to be
easily reproduced.

[jejb: fix up integer parsing to use kstrtouint]
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-02-19 10:14:52 -06:00
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acpi Merge branches 'atomicio-apei', 'hotplug', 'sony-nvs-nosave' and 'thermal-netlink' into release 2012-01-23 19:47:06 -05:00
asm-generic lib: add NO_GENERIC_PCI_IOPORT_MAP 2012-01-31 23:19:47 +02:00
crypto
drm drm: Fix authentication kernel crash 2012-01-25 09:27:45 +00:00
keys keys: add a "logon" key type 2012-01-17 22:39:40 -06:00
linux [SCSI] virtio-scsi: SCSI driver for QEMU based virtual machines 2012-02-19 09:50:20 -06:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-01-18 12:53:54 -08:00
misc
mtd mtd: document that MEMWRITE ioctl is NAND-specific 2012-01-09 18:18:36 +00:00
net netprio_cgroup: fix wrong memory access when NETPRIO_CGROUP=m 2012-02-10 15:08:57 -05:00
pcmcia
rdma rdma/core: Fix sparse warnings 2012-01-04 09:17:45 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] Handle disk devices which can not process medium access commands 2012-02-19 10:14:52 -06:00
sound Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linus 2012-01-31 15:13:14 +01:00
target target: Change target_submit_cmd() to return void 2012-02-07 06:41:04 +00:00
trace writeback: fix dereferencing NULL bdi->dev on trace_writeback_queue 2012-02-06 11:17:25 +08:00
video fbdev fixes for 3.3 2012-02-07 15:54:02 -08:00
xen Merge branch 'for-3.3/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2012-01-15 12:48:41 -08:00
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