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    [S390] dasd: improve error recovery for internal I/O · eb6e199b
    Stefan Weinhuber authored
    Most of the error conditions reported by a FICON storage server
    indicate situations which can be recovered. Sometimes the host just
    needs to retry an I/O request, but sometimes the recovery
    is more complex and requires the device driver to wait, choose
    a different path, etc.
    
    The DASD device driver has a fully featured error recovery
    for normal block layer I/O, but not for internal I/O request which
    are for example used during the device bring up.
    This can lead to situations where the IPL of a system fails because
    DASD devices are not properly recognized.
    This patch will extend the internal I/O handling to use the existing
    error recovery procedures.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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