1. 03 Jul, 2009 2 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: don't merge requests of different failfast settings · ab0fd1de
      Tejun Heo authored
      Block layer used to merge requests and bios with different failfast
      settings.  This caused regular IOs to fail prematurely when they were
      merged into failfast requests for readahead.
      
      Niel Lambrechts could trigger the problem semi-reliably on ext4 when
      resuming from STR.  ext4 uses readahead when reading inodes and
      combined with the deterministic extra SATA PHY exception cycle during
      resume on the specific configuration, non-readahead inode read would
      fail causing ext4 errors.  Please read the following thread for
      details.
      
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/23/21
      
      This patch makes block layer reject merging if the failfast settings
      don't match.  This is correct but likely to lower IO performance by
      preventing regular IOs from mingling into surrounding readahead
      requests.  Changes to allow such mixed merges and handle errors
      correctly will be added later.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarNiel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
      Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
      ab0fd1de
    • Hannes Reinecke's avatar
      cciss: Ignore stale commands after reboot · b59e64d0
      Hannes Reinecke authored
      When doing an unexpected shutdown like kexec the cciss
      firmware might still have some commands in flight, which
      it is trying to complete.
      The driver is doing it's best on resetting the HBA,
      but sadly there's a firmware issue causing the firmware
      _not_ to abort or drop old commands.
      So the firmware will send us commands which we haven't
      accounted for, causing the driver to panic.
      
      With this patch we're just ignoring these commands as
      there is nothing we could be doing with them anyway.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarMike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
      b59e64d0
  2. 01 Jul, 2009 38 commits