| Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.8 068/133] [SCSI] fix our current target reap infrastructure | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2014 03:03:12 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 13:13 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > 3.8.13.22 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> > > commit e63ed0d7a98014fdfc2cfeb3f6dada313dcabb59 upstream. > > This patch eliminates the reap_ref and replaces it with a proper kref. > On last put of this kref, the target is removed from visibility in > sysfs. The final call to scsi_target_reap() for the device is done from > __scsi_remove_device() and only if the device was made visible. This > ensures that the target disappears as soon as the last device is gone > rather than waiting until final release of the device (which is often > too long). > > Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> > Tested-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> [...]
This and the next patch had the comment "delay backport by 2 months for field testing".
Ben.
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