Yes Thomas, we need to reset the non_operational_loop to zero after the 
transient event.

Thanks,
Sreekanth.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas Henzl [mailto:the...@redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:43 PM
To: Reddy, Sreekanth
Cc: j...@kernel.org; Nandigama, Nagalakshmi; jbottom...@parallels.com; 
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Prakash, Sathya
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt2sas: fix for driver fails EEH recovery from 
injected pci bus error

On 12/17/2012 10:58 PM, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> This patch stops the driver to invoke kthread (which remove the dead 
> ioc) for some time while EEH recovery has started.

Thank you for posting this, the issue we have seen is resolved now.
Shouldn't be an additional initialization added?
So after a transient event the non_operational_loop is reset again?

Tomas
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c 
b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
index fd3b3d7..480111c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ _base_fault_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
                return; /* don't rearm timer */
        }
 
+       ioc->non_operational_loop = 0;
+
        if ((doorbell & MPI2_IOC_STATE_MASK) == MPI2_IOC_STATE_FAULT) {
                rc = mpt2sas_base_hard_reset_handler(ioc, CAN_SLEEP,
                    FORCE_BIG_HAMMER);



>
> Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.re...@lsi.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c 
> b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
> index ffd85c5..2349531 100755
> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ _base_fault_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
>       struct task_struct *p;
>  
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->ioc_reset_in_progress_lock, flags);
> -     if (ioc->shost_recovery)
> +     if (ioc->shost_recovery || ioc->pci_error_recovery)
>               goto rearm_timer;
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->ioc_reset_in_progress_lock, flags);
>  
> @@ -164,6 +164,20 @@ _base_fault_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
>               printk(MPT2SAS_INFO_FMT "%s : SAS host is non-operational 
> !!!!\n",
>                       ioc->name, __func__);
>  
> +             /* It may be possible that EEH recovery can resolve some of
> +              * pci bus failure issues rather removing the dead ioc function
> +              * by considering controller is in a non-operational state. So
> +              * here priority is given to the EEH recovery. If it doesn't
> +              * not resolve this issue, mpt2sas driver will consider this
> +              * controller to non-operational state and remove the dead ioc
> +              * function.
> +              */
> +             if (ioc->non_operational_loop++ < 5) {
> +                     spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->ioc_reset_in_progress_lock,
> +                                                      flags);
> +                     goto rearm_timer;
> +             }
> +
>               /*
>                * Call _scsih_flush_pending_cmds callback so that we flush all
>                * pending commands back to OS. This call is required to aovid 
> @@ 
> -4386,6 +4400,7 @@ mpt2sas_base_attach(struct MPT2SAS_ADAPTER *ioc)
>       if (missing_delay[0] != -1 && missing_delay[1] != -1)
>               _base_update_missing_delay(ioc, missing_delay[0],
>                   missing_delay[1]);
> +     ioc->non_operational_loop = 0;
>  
>       return 0;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h 
> b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h
> index 543d8d6..c6ee7aa 100755
> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h
> @@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ struct MPT2SAS_ADAPTER {
>       u16             cpu_msix_table_sz;
>       u32             ioc_reset_count;
>       MPT2SAS_FLUSH_RUNNING_CMDS schedule_dead_ioc_flush_running_cmds;
> +     u32             non_operational_loop;
>  
>       /* internal commands, callback index */
>       u8              scsi_io_cb_idx;
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