Hot-remove of a device with a mounted partition
Keith Busch
keith.busch at intel.com
Wed Apr 29 07:44:19 PDT 2015
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Sunad Bhandary wrote:
> 1) When the device is removed , sometimes(around 4-5 out of 10 times) the
> removal process hangs. The device nodes are still present under /dev. It
> seems like call to del_gendisk function is hung and not returning.
Looks like it's stuck entrying a frozen queue. I'm not sure why it ever
succeeds in your test. :)
Thanks for the catch. We'll have to figure out some way to coordinate
this with blk-mq so its safe in all scenarios.
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