Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Shutdown when removing dead controller

[Singh, Balbir]

On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 15:13 -0400, Tyler Ramer wrote:
> Always shutdown the controller when nvme_remove_dead_controller is
> reached.
> 
> It's possible for nvme_remove_dead_controller to be called as part of a
> failed reset, when there is a bad NVME_CSTS. The controller won't
> be comming back online, so we should shut it down rather than just
> disabling.
> 

I would add that nvme_timeout() would go through the nvme_should_reset() path
where we don't shutdown the device during nvme_dev_disable, it makes sense to
do a full shutdown during nvme_remove_deal_ctrl work() when reset fails.



> Signed-off-by: Tyler Ramer <tyaramer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index c0808f9eb8ab..c3f5ba22c625 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ static void nvme_pci_free_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>  static void nvme_remove_dead_ctrl(struct nvme_dev *dev)
>  {
>  	nvme_get_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
> -	nvme_dev_disable(dev, false);
> +	nvme_dev_disable(dev, true);
>  	nvme_kill_queues(&dev->ctrl);
>  	if (!queue_work(nvme_wq, &dev->remove_work))
>  		nvme_put_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);