Re: [linux-pm] autosuspend for SCSI devices

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 10:04:21 EST


On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > > You'd make scsi driver writers' life easier if you made sure no autosuspends
> > > > happen while they recover from errors. After all, you have no idea which
> > > > commands will get through while the bus is in disarray.
> > >
> > > Well, they have to handle other commands while bus has problems,
> > > anyway, right? So I'm not creating any _new_ problems for them.
> > >
> > > Pavel
> >
> >
> > I am afraid this is not true.
>
> I guess you are right.

> ...but this should fix it, no? [incremental to previous]
> Pavel
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> index 3c184fe..7e5ea0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #define DEBUG
> #include <scsi/scsi.h>
> #include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
> #include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
> +#include <scsi/scsi_eh.h>
>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
>
> @@ -128,8 +129,11 @@ static int autosuspend_check(struct scsi
> if (!(sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_RUNNING ||
> sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_QUIESCE))
> return -ENODEV;
> + if (!scsi_block_when_processing_errors(sdev))
> + return -EBUSY;
>
> suspend_time = sdev->last_busy + sdev->autosuspend_delay;
> + /* FIXME: what if suspend_time - jiffies == -EPERM by some strange chance */
> if (time_before(jiffies, suspend_time))
> return suspend_time - jiffies;
> return 0;

If I'm not mistaken, while error hanlding is in progress we always have
shost->shost_state equal to either SHOST_RECOVERY or
SHOST_CANCEL_RECOVERY. This is a better test to use.

Alan Stern

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