On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:30:45AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:46 -0700, Eric Moore wrote:
> > -                   if (scsi_status == MPI_SCSI_STATUS_BUSY)
> > +                   if (ioc->bus_type != SPI && scsi_status == 
> > MPI_SCSI_STATUS_BUSY)
> >                             sc->result = (DID_BUS_BUSY << 16) | scsi_status;
> >                     else
> >                             sc->result = (DID_OK << 16) | scsi_status;
> 
> DID_BUS_BUSY causes an immediate retry, but it does debit the retry
> count, so it shouldn't cause "infinite retries" ... if it does, there's
> something else wrong here.

I wonder if this is the same bug I'm chasing (on ia64 machines,
reproduced with both Montecito and Madison).  

The symptom is a stack overflow caused by this infinite loop:

generic_unplug_device
__generic_unplug_device
  scsi_request_fn [1]
  blk_requeue_request
  elv_requeue_request
  __elv_add_request
__generic_unplug_device
  scsi_request_fn [2]
  blk_requeue_request
  elv_requeue_request
  __elv_add_request
__generic_unplug_device
  scsi_request_fn [3]
  scsi_dispatch_cmd
  scsi_queue_insert
  blk_insert_request
  scsi_request_fn [4]
  blk_plug_device

(stack dump courtesy of incrementing a counter each time through
__generic_unplug_device and checking it in blk_plug_device() and
__generic_unplug_device)

I don't see how it happens; as far as I can tell, by the time we're
going to call blk_plug_device() in scsi_request_fn [4], there's no way
to unplug the queue again before it gets back to scsi_request_fn [3]
... and from the point where we call scsi_dispatch_cmd(), we immediately
either break or test blk_queue_plugged() and exit.  There should be no
way for it to call blk_requeue_request() again.

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