On 5/9/19 11:58 AM, Ewan D. Milne wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 07:06 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 5/9/19 6:18 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> The 'qla_tgt_wq' workqueue is used for generic command aborts, >>> not just target-related functions. So allocate the workqueue >>> always to avoid a kernel crash when aborting commands. >> >> Can the abort code be called directly? This means not queueing the abort >> work? Do you perhaps know why the target workqueue is used for >> processing aborts? In other words, can the abort functions be modified >> to use one of the system workqueues instead of always allocating the >> target workqueue? > > How exactly is the qla_tgt_wq used for generic command aborts? > Do you mean initiator mode aborts from the SCSI EH calls? Those look > like they issue mailbox commands to the HBA directly. > Or do we get frames received even if we are not using target mode or something? Hi Ewan, To me your questions seem like questions about the original patch. Are your questions perhaps intended for Hannes? Bart.
