Mark, If you issued the SG_IO ioctl with a timeout of at least 66 minutes (expressed in milliseconds) then it looks like ata_scsi_queuecmd() has a problem. The SCSI FORMAT UNIT command can take a long time. It has an IMMED bit which when set will return after the command and its parameters have been received. The progress of the format can then be polled by other commands. With the IMMED bit clear the FORMAT UNIT returns when the format completes (i.e. after an hour or so). Either way, setting the timeout on the SG_IO ioctl works as expected. Doug Gilbert On 10-09-23 07:41 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
What's the purpose of this stack dump, and how can it be prevented in this NORMAL situation?? The command was "hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb", which takes about 66 minutes to complete on this particular drive. I don't see any obvious way for the task to mark itself as needing longer than 120 secs to complete the operation. Thanks. [ 1800.373281] INFO: task hdparm:1979 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 1800.373288] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 1800.373294] hdparm D f64a4c00 0 1979 1718 0x00000000 [ 1800.373303] f3065c38 00200086 c11be0e3 f64a4c00 c1439ac0 c1439ac0 c1439ac0 c1439ac0 [ 1800.373317] f571bdb8 c1439ac0 c1439ac0 dbdc5ec7 00000163 dbdb0cfb 00000163 f571bb60 [ 1800.373329] 00000001 f3065d18 7fffffff f571bb60 f3065c64 c1270527 f684ca50 f684ca50 [ 1800.373341] Call Trace: [ 1800.373355] [<c11be0e3>] ? ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x6a/0x73 [ 1800.373366] [<c1270527>] schedule_timeout+0x16/0xa5 [ 1800.373376] [<c111a4a2>] ? __blk_run_queue+0x3d/0x5e [ 1800.373383] [<c1118626>] ? elv_insert+0x67/0x18f [ 1800.373389] [<c126fd6a>] wait_for_common+0x8a/0xd9 [ 1800.373399] [<c1028b75>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd [ 1800.373406] [<c126fe3a>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14 [ 1800.373413] [<c111d02f>] blk_execute_rq+0x76/0x8f [ 1800.373420] [<c111cf1c>] ? blk_end_sync_rq+0x0/0x28 [ 1800.373428] [<c111cc3f>] ? blk_rq_append_bio+0x14/0x3b [ 1800.373434] [<c111ce95>] ? blk_rq_map_user+0x12e/0x1b5 [ 1800.373442] [<c11201f8>] sg_io+0x269/0x343 [ 1800.373450] [<c11204be>] scsi_cmd_ioctl+0x1ec/0x396 [ 1800.373457] [<c11993cf>] ? get_device+0x13/0x18 [ 1800.373464] [<c11aeabd>] ? sd_open+0x45/0x104 [ 1800.373472] [<c11aea0e>] sd_ioctl+0x6b/0x8c [ 1800.373479] [<c111e2fe>] __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x66/0x87 [ 1800.373486] [<c111ebb2>] blkdev_ioctl+0x5fe/0x62c [ 1800.373495] [<c1061e3f>] ? filemap_fault+0xb5/0x2fc [ 1800.373503] [<c10a7bde>] block_ioctl+0x2a/0x32 [ 1800.373509] [<c10a7bde>] ? block_ioctl+0x2a/0x32 [ 1800.373518] [<c109345a>] vfs_ioctl+0x27/0x91 [ 1800.373524] [<c10a7bb4>] ? block_ioctl+0x0/0x32 [ 1800.373531] [<c109398d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x42a/0x45b [ 1800.373538] [<c10727b7>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x3d8/0x7c2 [ 1800.373547] [<c1088e98>] ? fsnotify_modify+0x4f/0x5a [ 1800.373555] [<c101b8f9>] ? do_page_fault+0x1e4/0x243 [ 1800.373562] [<c10939ec>] sys_ioctl+0x2e/0x48 [ 1800.373570] [<c1002750>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
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