Hello, James. Hello, Christoph. This patch removes volatile qualifier from scsi_device->device_busy, Scsi_Host->host_busy and ->host_failed as the volatile qualifiers don't serve any purpose now. While at it, convert those fields from unsigned short to unsigned int as suggested by Christoph. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Index: scsi-reqfn-export/include/scsi/scsi_device.h =================================================================== --- scsi-reqfn-export.orig/include/scsi/scsi_device.h 2005-04-10 13:03:14.000000000 +0900 +++ scsi-reqfn-export/include/scsi/scsi_device.h 2005-04-10 13:04:42.000000000 +0900 @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ struct scsi_device { struct list_head siblings; /* list of all devices on this host */ struct list_head same_target_siblings; /* just the devices sharing same target id */ - volatile unsigned short device_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ + unsigned int device_busy; /* commands actually active on + * low-level. protected by queue_lock. */ spinlock_t sdev_lock; /* also the request queue_lock */ spinlock_t list_lock; struct list_head cmd_list; /* queue of in use SCSI Command structures */ Index: scsi-reqfn-export/include/scsi/scsi_host.h =================================================================== --- scsi-reqfn-export.orig/include/scsi/scsi_host.h 2005-04-10 13:03:14.000000000 +0900 +++ scsi-reqfn-export/include/scsi/scsi_host.h 2005-04-10 13:04:42.000000000 +0900 @@ -448,8 +448,14 @@ struct Scsi_Host { wait_queue_head_t host_wait; struct scsi_host_template *hostt; struct scsi_transport_template *transportt; - volatile unsigned short host_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ - volatile unsigned short host_failed; /* commands that failed. */ + + /* + * The following two fields are protected with host_lock; + * however, eh routines can safely access during eh processing + * without acquiring the lock. + */ + unsigned int host_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ + unsigned int host_failed; /* commands that failed. */ unsigned short host_no; /* Used for IOCTL_GET_IDLUN, /proc/scsi et al. */ int resetting; /* if set, it means that last_reset is a valid value */ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html