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SCSI maintains its own driver private data hooked off of each SCSI request, and the pridate data won't be freed after scsi_queue_rq() returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE or BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE. An upper layer driver (e.g. dm-rq) may need to retry these SCSI requests, before SCSI has fully dispatched them, due to a lower level SCSI driver's resource limitation identified in scsi_queue_rq(). Currently SCSI's per-request private data is leaked when the upper layer driver (dm-rq) frees and then retries these requests in response to BLK_STS_RESOURCE or BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE returns from scsi_queue_rq(). This usecase is so specialized that it doesn't warrant training an existing blk-mq interface (e.g. blk_mq_free_request) to allow SCSI to account for freeing its driver private data -- doing so would add an extra branch for handling a special case that all other consumers of SCSI (and blk-mq) won't ever need to worry about. So the most pragmatic way forward is to delegate freeing SCSI driver private data to the upper layer driver (dm-rq). Do so by adding new .cleanup_rq callback and calling a new blk_mq_cleanup_rq() method from dm-rq. A following commit will implement the .cleanup_rq() hook in scsi_mq_ops. Cc: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 396eaf21ee17 ("blk-mq: improve DM's blk-mq IO merging via blk_insert_cloned_request feedback") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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.