On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:03:13 +0200 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> This is a re-send of a patch series Hannes sent last january. Stefan > looked at the patches and our tests went well, so I guess this is ready > for upstream integration. > > The changes to block/blk-core.c and block/blk-timeout.c look good > to me, but I would like to request an acked-by from Jens for the > block layer parts in patch #6 and #7 of the series (pretty please :-) > > The original patch description from Hannes: > > This patch series implements a block timeout handler for > DASDs. The main impetus was to allow for a fixed upper > timeout value after which a request is aborted. > This is required eg when implementing a host-based > mirroring system where otherwise the entire mirror > would stall under certain circumstances. > > Changes since v1: > - Fixed lock inversion in dasd_times_out() > - Checked for 'device->block' when writing to 'timeout' attribute > - Check against 'UINT_MAX' when verifying the 'timeout' value > > Once I got the required acked-by I can carry the patch set in the > linux-s390 tree for the next merge window. > > Hannes Reinecke (9): > dasd: Clarify comment > dasd: make number of retries configurable > dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet > dasd: Implement block timeout handling > dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors > block,dasd: detailed I/O errors > block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out() > dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute > dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set > > arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/dasd.h | 4 ++ > block/blk-core.c | 3 + > block/blk-timeout.c | 5 +- > drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 115 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/s390/block/dasd_diag.c | 8 ++- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c | 15 +++-- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_erp.c | 8 +++ > drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c | 10 +++- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h | 10 ++++ > drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++ > 11 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > Ping. Jens could you please look at patch #6 and #7? I don't want to do a please pull with block layer parts without your consent. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
