[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 140a5e37a24db46f057f7e91cdf1dbbfa4e1027d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:48:30 -0700
Subject: Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler

commit 56b26e69c8283121febedd12b3cc193384af46b9 upstream.

On Azure, we have seen instances of unbounded I/O latencies. To deal with
this issue, implement handler that can reset the timeout. Note that the
host gaurantees that it will respond to each command that has been issued.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
[hch: added a better comment explaining the issue]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
index 7e8a642..2b8595b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/hyperv.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
@@ -1518,6 +1519,16 @@ static int storvsc_host_reset_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
 	return SUCCESS;
 }

+/*
+ * The host guarantees to respond to each command, although I/O latencies might
+ * be unbounded on Azure.  Reset the timer unconditionally to give the host a
+ * chance to perform EH.
+ */
+static enum blk_eh_timer_return storvsc_eh_timed_out(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
+{
+	return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;
+}
+
 static bool storvsc_scsi_cmd_ok(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
 {
 	bool allowed = true;
@@ -1697,6 +1708,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template scsi_driver = {
 	.bios_param =		storvsc_get_chs,
 	.queuecommand =		storvsc_queuecommand,
 	.eh_host_reset_handler =	storvsc_host_reset_handler,
+	.eh_timed_out =		storvsc_eh_timed_out,
 	.slave_alloc =		storvsc_device_alloc,
 	.slave_destroy =	storvsc_device_destroy,
 	.slave_configure =	storvsc_device_configure,
--
1.9.1