On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 07:07:20AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> - if (blk_queue_dead(q)) >> + if (blk_queue_dying(q)) >> return -ENOENT; > > I'm missing an explanation of why this patch forbids triggering a queue run > in the dying state. "dying" means that allocation of new requests will > fail. Unless if something fundamentally has changed in the block layer it > should still be safe to trigger a queue run in the "dying" state. It is safe, but not worth having another queue state for given that we can otherwise remove the QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD bit.
