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authorJames Bottomley2005-08-06 04:45:40 +0200
committerJames Bottomley2005-08-08 16:55:39 +0200
commitb21a41385118f9a6af3cd96ce71090c5ada52eb5 (patch)
tree4eb9124ae72e1a905094c259465718793698e603 /include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
parent[SCSI] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference count and related fixes (diff)
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[SCSI] add global timeout to the scsi mid-layer
There are certain rogue devices (and the aic7xxx driver) that return BUSY or QUEUE_FULL forever. This code will apply a global timeout (of the total number of retries times the per command timer) to a given command. If it is exceeded, the command is completed regardless of its state. The patch also removes the unused field in the command: timeout and timeout_total. This solves the problem of detecting an endless loop in the mid-layer because of BUSY/QUEUE_FULL bouncing, but will not recover the device. In the aic7xxx case, the driver can be recovered by sending a bus reset, so possibly this should be tied into the error handler? Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h')
-rw-r--r--include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
index 9957f16dcc5d..bed4b7c9be99 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
@@ -51,12 +51,16 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
* printk's to use ->pid, so that we can kill this field.
*/
unsigned long serial_number;
+ /*
+ * This is set to jiffies as it was when the command was first
+ * allocated. It is used to time how long the command has
+ * been outstanding
+ */
+ unsigned long jiffies_at_alloc;
int retries;
int allowed;
int timeout_per_command;
- int timeout_total;
- int timeout;
unsigned char cmd_len;
unsigned char old_cmd_len;