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    [SCSI] aacraid: Abort management FIBs · d18b448f
    Mark Haverkamp authored
    
    
    Received from Mark Salyzyn:
    
    Add code to abort outstanding management ioctl fibs when the blinkLED recovery
    is performed. This code is 'clunky' and does not have any real feedback in that
    the reset could progress before the user application has gotten it's
    notification of command completion. We put a schedule() call to delay just the
    right amount for most cases, because we tried a spin and still managed to find
    cases where we would spin forever waiting for the management application to
    acknowledge the impending doom surrounding the cause of the BlinkLED. Will
    cause an oops in the context of the management application if we proceed too
    quickly. I view this as the lesser of many evils since currently if there are
    outstanding management ioctls during a need to reset/recover the adapter, the
    management application just locks up and waits forever. The best practices fix
    for this problem not going to be simple or easy (at least the fixes I imagine
    today); and we found a balance between the needs of the driver to proceed, and
    the applications that locked or confused that would hold back the driver. I
    just do not like the idea of a kernel oops in an application to deal with low
    priority, sluggish or misbehaving applications.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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