s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set
authorHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:26:19 +0000 (09:26 +0000)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:31:26 +0000 (17:31 +0200)
commit5ea34a01423a27d4526f3551e8542f2f991bd4a0
treebadb135a40e6070c2a4d474e6a240457cb18b484
parent3d71ad32167c9124d5621b54c37a74ef38aa93b0
s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set

Whenever a DASD request encounters a timeout we might
need to abort all outstanding requests on this or
even other devices.

This is especially useful if one wants to fail all
devices on one side of a RAID10 configuration, even
though only one device exhibited an error.

To handle this I've introduced a new device flag
DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO.
This flag is evaluated in __dasd_process_request_queue()
and will invoke blk_abort_request() for all
outstanding requests with DASD_CQR_FLAGS_FAILFAST set.
This will cause any of these requests to be aborted
immediately if the blk_timeout function is activated.

The DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is also evaluated in
__dasd_process_request_queue to abort all
new request which would have the
DASD_CQR_FLAGS_FAILFAST bit set.

The flag can be set with the new ioctls 'BIODASDABORTIO'
and removed with 'BIODASDALLOWIO'.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/dasd.h
drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h
drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c
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