This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtip32xx: Fix broken service thread handling to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtip32xx-fix-broken-service-thread-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cfc05bd31384c4898bf2437a4de5557f3cf9803a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Asai Thambi SP <asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:16:00 -0800 Subject: mtip32xx: Fix broken service thread handling From: Asai Thambi SP <asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cfc05bd31384c4898bf2437a4de5557f3cf9803a upstream. Service thread does not detect the need for taskfile error hanlding. Fixed the flag condition to process taskfile error. Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 6 +++--- drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c +++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c @@ -2924,9 +2924,7 @@ static int mtip_service_thread(void *dat * is in progress nor error handling is active */ wait_event_interruptible(port->svc_wait, (port->flags) && - !(port->flags & MTIP_PF_PAUSE_IO)); - - set_bit(MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_ACTIVE_BIT, &port->flags); + (port->flags & MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_WORK)); if (kthread_should_stop() || test_bit(MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_STOP_BIT, &port->flags)) @@ -2936,6 +2934,8 @@ static int mtip_service_thread(void *dat &dd->dd_flag))) goto st_out; + set_bit(MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_ACTIVE_BIT, &port->flags); + restart_eh: /* Demux bits: start with error handling */ if (test_bit(MTIP_PF_EH_ACTIVE_BIT, &port->flags)) { --- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h +++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h @@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ enum { MTIP_PF_REBUILD_BIT = 6, MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_STOP_BIT = 8, + MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_WORK = ((1 << MTIP_PF_EH_ACTIVE_BIT) | + (1 << MTIP_PF_ISSUE_CMDS_BIT) | + (1 << MTIP_PF_REBUILD_BIT) | + (1 << MTIP_PF_SVC_THD_STOP_BIT)), + /* below are bit numbers in 'dd_flag' defined in driver_data */ MTIP_DDF_SEC_LOCK_BIT = 0, MTIP_DDF_REMOVE_PENDING_BIT = 1, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mtip32xx-print-exact-time-when-an-internal-command-is-interrupted.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-implement-timeout-handler.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-cleanup-queued-requests-after-surprise-removal.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-avoid-issuing-standby-immediate-cmd-during-ftl-rebuild.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-handle-safe-removal-during-io.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-remove-unwanted-code-from-taskfile-error-handler.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-handle-ftl-rebuild-failure-state-during-device-initialization.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-fix-for-rmmod-crash-when-drive-is-in-ftl-rebuild.patch queue-4.4/mtip32xx-fix-broken-service-thread-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html