Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] Make scsi_remove_host() wait for device removal

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Hello, Bart.

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:23:59AM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 12/02/12 14:45, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:51:13PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >>+/* Test whether scsi_remove_host() may finish, and if so, wake it up. */
> >>+void __scsi_check_remove_host_done(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
> >>+{
> >>+	lockdep_assert_held(shost->host_lock);
> >>+
> >>+	if (__scsi_remove_host_done(shost))
> >>+		wake_up(&shost->remove_host);
> >>+}
> >
> >This being an one-time thing.  Using completion could be simpler.  e.g.
> 
> Sorry but I'm not sure that would work here. A user can e.g. delete
> all SCSI devices associated with a SCSI host (echo 1
> >/sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/device/target<m>/<lun>/delete) and
> then issue a rescan to re-add LUNs. When using a completion the
> completion would be set as soon as the last SCSI device has been
> deleted instead of only after scsi_remove_host() finished removing
> the re-added SCSI devices.

You can gate the whole thing with test on whether the host is being
removed.  Once removal begins, no device should be allowed to be added
and the completion triggers iff host removal is in progress.  That
should work, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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