On 10/28/2014 03:47 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 07:50:03AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: >> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 09:37 -0500, Brian King wrote: >>> The ipr driver does not yet support async aborts, so disable this >>> for now. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> By "does not yet support" do you mean doesn't work with or merely not >> tested with but seems to work OK? if the former, then surely this >> should be a fixes patch with a cc to stable for all the kernels async >> abort is in (which is 3.14) > > I'm pretty sure this patch is incorrect, and that what ever issue should > have been described in this patch are the same EH problems we fixed in > the last couple releases. I've also talked to Hannes a while ago, and > we agree that we want to remove this flag ASAP as it's inviting this I think we can likely drop the first in the series here. I've reverted it and have been running abort testing for a bit and haven't hit any issues. Unless I see anything overnight, I'll resend the second patch by itself and cc stable. Thanks, Brian -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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