[S390] dasd: improve error recovery for internal I/O
authorStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:51:51 +0000 (12:51 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <sky@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:51:34 +0000 (12:51 +0100)
commiteb6e199bef288611157b8198c25d12b32bf058d0
tree80737a2703a9f4d09cee2410342aeccb281413ae
parent626350b63ef2cd447023d3dc2a34eaa7ca01bfff
[S390] dasd: improve error recovery for internal I/O

Most of the error conditions reported by a FICON storage server
indicate situations which can be recovered. Sometimes the host just
needs to retry an I/O request, but sometimes the recovery
is more complex and requires the device driver to wait, choose
a different path, etc.

The DASD device driver has a fully featured error recovery
for normal block layer I/O, but not for internal I/O request which
are for example used during the device bring up.
This can lead to situations where the IPL of a system fails because
DASD devices are not properly recognized.
This patch will extend the internal I/O handling to use the existing
error recovery procedures.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h
drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c
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