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If a controller reset is racing with a namespace revalidation, the revalidation (admin) I/O will surely fail, but we should not remove the namespace as we will execute the I/O when the controller is back up. Same for spurious allocation errors (return -ENOMEM). Fix this by checking the specific error code in nvme_revalidate_disk and if it is a transient error (for example non DNR nvme statuses or a negative ENOMEM as allocation failure), do not remove the namespace as it will either recover when the controller is back up and schedule a subsequent scan, or the controller is going away and the namespaces will be removed anyways. This fixes a hang namespace scanning racing with a controller reset and also sporious I/O errors in path failover coditions where the controller reset is racing with the namespace scan work with multipath enabled. Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.