On 5/9/19 11:58 AM, Ewan D. Milne wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 07:06 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 5/9/19 6:18 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> The 'qla_tgt_wq' workqueue is used for generic command aborts, >>> not just target-related functions. So allocate the workqueue >>> always to avoid a kernel crash when aborting commands. >> >> Can the abort code be called directly? This means not queueing the abort >> work? Do you perhaps know why the target workqueue is used for >> processing aborts? In other words, can the abort functions be modified >> to use one of the system workqueues instead of always allocating the >> target workqueue? > > How exactly is the qla_tgt_wq used for generic command aborts? > Do you mean initiator mode aborts from the SCSI EH calls? Those look > like they issue mailbox commands to the HBA directly. > Or do we get frames received even if we are not using target mode or > something?
Hi Ewan, To me your questions seem like questions about the original patch. Are your questions perhaps intended for Hannes? Bart.
