Re: [PATCH 4/7] blk-mq: make blk_abort_request() trigger timeout path

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Dec 29 2017 - 05:07:54 EST


On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 04:07:23AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Note that this makes blk_abort_request() asynchronous - it initiates
> abortion but the actual termination will happen after a short while,
> even when the caller owns the request. AFAICS, SCSI and ATA should be
> fine with that and I think mtip32xx and dasd should be safe but not
> completely sure. It'd be great if people who know the drivers take a
> look.

For that you'll need to CC linux-ide and linux-scsi, and for the
SAS drivers some of the usual suspects that touch the SAS code.