[ewg] [PATCH] ib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlock

[Tziporet Koren]

Rupert
I must get your input for SRP stability to know when we can build a new RC 

Thanks
Tziporet

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:34 PM
To: Rupert Dance
Cc: 'Bart Van Assche'; 'ewg'; Tziporet Koren
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlock

On 10/15/2012 04:46 PM, Rupert Dance wrote:
> Vlad,
>
> Thanks for getting this done. Is this in today's daily build or if not 
> when will I have access?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rupert

Hi Rupert,
Yes, today's daily build includes this fix.

Regards,
Vladimir

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:28 AM
> To: Bart Van Assche
> Cc: Rupert Dance; ewg; Tziporet Koren
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a 
> deadlock
>
> On 10/12/2012 02:03 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Avoid that scsi_remove_host() is invoked from the context of a work 
>> queue thread on which work has been queued that scsi_remove_host() 
>> might be waiting for. That avoids that module removal of ib_srp 
>> triggers a deadlock on a pre-2.6.36 kernel. This patch has been 
>> tested on RHEL 6.1, RHEL 6.2, RHEL 6.3 and SLES 11 SP2.
>>
>> Reported-by: Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
>> ---
>
> Applied,
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
>
>