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Subject[PATCH] block: Refine blk_abort_request() documentation
Document when it is safe to call this function for blk-mq queues.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
---
block/blk-timeout.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-timeout.c b/block/blk-timeout.c
index 246dfb1..d162500 100644
--- a/block/blk-timeout.c
+++ b/block/blk-timeout.c
@@ -149,10 +149,13 @@ void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(unsigned long data)
* blk_abort_request -- Request request recovery for the specified command
* @req: pointer to the request of interest
*
- * This function requests that the block layer start recovery for the
+ * This function requests that the block layer starts recovery for the
* request by deleting the timer and calling the q's timeout function.
* LLDDs who implement their own error recovery MAY ignore the timeout
- * event if they generated blk_abort_req. Must hold queue lock.
+ * event if they generated blk_abort_req. The caller must hold the queue lock
+ * if @req->q is a traditional block layer queue. However, if @req->q is a
+ * blk-mq queue then it is up to the caller to ensure that this function is
+ * only called after @req->q->mq_ops->queue_rq(@req) has finished.
*/
void blk_abort_request(struct request *req)
{
--
2.1.4


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