This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler to the 3.14-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: drivers-scsi-storvsc-implement-a-eh_timed_out-handler.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 56b26e69c8283121febedd12b3cc193384af46b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:48:30 -0700 Subject: Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 56b26e69c8283121febedd12b3cc193384af46b9 upstream. On Azure, we have seen instances of unbounded I/O latencies. To deal with this issue, implement handler that can reset the timeout. Note that the host gaurantees that it will respond to each command that has been issued. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> [hch: added a better comment explaining the issue] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/hyperv.h> #include <linux/mempool.h> +#include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <scsi/scsi.h> #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h> #include <scsi/scsi_host.h> @@ -1518,6 +1519,16 @@ static int storvsc_host_reset_handler(st return SUCCESS; } +/* + * The host guarantees to respond to each command, although I/O latencies might + * be unbounded on Azure. Reset the timer unconditionally to give the host a + * chance to perform EH. + */ +static enum blk_eh_timer_return storvsc_eh_timed_out(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd) +{ + return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER; +} + static bool storvsc_scsi_cmd_ok(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd) { bool allowed = true; @@ -1687,6 +1698,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template scsi_dr .bios_param = storvsc_get_chs, .queuecommand = storvsc_queuecommand, .eh_host_reset_handler = storvsc_host_reset_handler, + .eh_timed_out = storvsc_eh_timed_out, .slave_alloc = storvsc_device_alloc, .slave_destroy = storvsc_device_destroy, .slave_configure = storvsc_device_configure, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/drivers-scsi-storvsc-implement-a-eh_timed_out-handler.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