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authorMark Haverkamp2006-03-27 19:44:26 +0200
committerJames Bottomley2006-04-13 17:13:20 +0200
commitdc4adbf41385486b0c73e7382ce73f0e8b873243 (patch)
tree8275237e742bd3f7b749172128977772c4fa097d /drivers/scsi/aacraid
parent[SCSI] aacraid: General driver cleanup (diff)
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[SCSI] aacraid: Re-start helper thread if it dies
Received from Mark Salyzyn Since the helper thread for the driver can be killed unceremoniously by an application, we detect the loss of the helper and restart it. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/aacraid')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
index 47fefca72695..9f75144e5247 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -293,6 +295,16 @@ return_fib:
status = 0;
} else {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->fib_lock, flags);
+ /* If someone killed the AIF aacraid thread, restart it */
+ status = !dev->aif_thread;
+ if (status && dev->queues && dev->fsa_dev) {
+ /* Be paranoid, be very paranoid! */
+ kthread_stop(dev->thread);
+ ssleep(1);
+ dev->aif_thread = 0;
+ dev->thread = kthread_run(aac_command_thread, dev, dev->name);
+ ssleep(1);
+ }
if (f.wait) {
if(down_interruptible(&fibctx->wait_sem) < 0) {
status = -EINTR;