Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how toprevent?

From: Mark Lord
Date: Thu Sep 23 2010 - 22:53:38 EST


On 10-09-23 08:05 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Mark,
If you issued the SG_IO ioctl with a timeout of at
least 66 minutes (expressed in milliseconds) then
it looks like ata_scsi_queuecmd() has a problem.
..

Mmm.. more like blk_execute_rq() perhaps.
That's where the wait_for_completion(&wait) call is at.

Perhaps I should change it to wait in smaller increments,
so that the lockup detection doesn't trigger on it..

Doing that seems rather wasteful, though.

Note that this is the ATA "SECURITY ERASE" command,
which doesn't have an "immed" bit to toggle.
So one must wait for it to complete.

cheers
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