3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>

commit 57fc2e335fd3c2f898ee73570dc81426c28dc7b4 upstream.

Rapid ata hotplug on a libsas controller results in cases where libsas
is waiting indefinitely on eh to perform an ata probe.

A race exists between scsi_schedule_eh() and scsi_restart_operations()
in the case when scsi_restart_operations() issues i/o to other devices
in the sas domain.  When this happens the host state transitions from
SHOST_RECOVERY (set by scsi_schedule_eh) back to SHOST_RUNNING and
->host_busy is non-zero so we put the eh thread to sleep even though
->host_eh_scheduled is active.

Before putting the error handler to sleep we need to check if the
host_state needs to return to SHOST_RECOVERY for another trip through
eh.  Since i/o that is released by scsi_restart_operations has been
blocked for at least one eh cycle, this implementation allows those
i/o's to run before another eh cycle starts to discourage hung task
timeouts.

Reported-by: Tom Jackson <thomas.p.jack...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Jackson <thomas.p.jack...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
index d0f71e5..804f632 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
@@ -1687,6 +1687,20 @@ static void scsi_restart_operations(struct Scsi_Host 
*shost)
         * requests are started.
         */
        scsi_run_host_queues(shost);
+
+       /*
+        * if eh is active and host_eh_scheduled is pending we need to re-run
+        * recovery.  we do this check after scsi_run_host_queues() to allow
+        * everything pent up since the last eh run a chance to make forward
+        * progress before we sync again.  Either we'll immediately re-run
+        * recovery or scsi_device_unbusy() will wake us again when these
+        * pending commands complete.
+        */
+       spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
+       if (shost->host_eh_scheduled)
+               if (scsi_host_set_state(shost, SHOST_RECOVERY))
+                       WARN_ON(scsi_host_set_state(shost, 
SHOST_CANCEL_RECOVERY));
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
 }
 
 /**


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