[PATCH 3/3] Revert "block: Fix a lockdep complaint triggered by request queue flushing"
Bart Van Assche
bvanassche at acm.org
Thu Nov 12 10:29:13 EST 2020
On 11/12/20 7:12 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/11/20 11:55 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
>> This reverts commit b3c6a59975415bde29cfd76ff1ab008edbf614a9.
>>
>> Now we can avoid nvme-loop lockdep warning of 'lockdep possible recursive
>> locking' by nvme-loop's lock class, no need to apply dynamically
>> allocated lock class key, so revert commit b3c6a5997541("block: Fix a
>> lockdep complaint triggered by request queue flushing").
>>
>> This way fixes horrible SCSI probe delay issue on megaraid_sas, and it
>> is reported the whole probe may take more than half an hour.
>
> The code touched by this patch is compiled out with locked disabled so
> it is not clear to me how this patch could affect a probe delay for
> megaraid_sas? Has the megaraid_sas probe issue perhaps not been root
> caused correctly?
(replying to my own email)
I found the answer in the descriptions of the previous patches of this
series. I think this patch would benefit from a more complete patch
description.
Thanks,
Bart.
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