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Bart Van Assche eb3e975ac2 scsi: ide: Do not set the RQF_PREEMPT flag for sense requests
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RQF_PREEMPT is used for two different purposes in the legacy IDE code:

 1. To mark power management requests.

 2. To mark requests that should preempt another request. An (old)
    explanation of that feature is as follows: "The IDE driver in the Linux
    kernel normally uses a series of busywait delays during its
    initialization. When the driver executes these busywaits, the kernel
    does nothing for the duration of the wait. The time spent in these
    waits could be used for other initialization activities, if they could
    be run concurrently with these waits.

    More specifically, busywait-style delays such as udelay() in module
    init functions inhibit kernel preemption because the Big Kernel Lock is
    held, while yielding APIs such as schedule_timeout() allow
    preemption. This is true because the kernel handles the BKL specially
    and releases and reacquires it across reschedules allowed by the
    current thread.

    This IDE-preempt specification requires that the driver eliminate these
    busywaits and replace them with a mechanism that allows other work to
    proceed while the IDE driver is initializing."

Since I haven't found an implementation of (2), do not set the PREEMPT flag
for sense requests. This patch causes sense requests to be postponed while
a drive is suspended instead of being submitted to ide_queue_rq().

If it would ever be necessary to restore the IDE PREEMPT functionality,
that can be done by introducing a new flag in struct ide_request.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209052951.16136-4-bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Can Guo <cang@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@mediatek.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-01-12 20:16:09 +01:00
arch um: ubd: Submit all data segments atomically 2021-01-06 14:48:40 +01:00
block scsi: block: Fix a race in the runtime power management code 2021-01-06 14:48:37 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: ecdh - avoid unaligned accesses in ecdh_set_secret() 2020-12-30 11:51:35 +01:00
Documentation x86/CPU/AMD: Save AMD NodeId as cpu_die_id 2020-12-30 11:51:47 +01:00
drivers scsi: ide: Do not set the RQF_PREEMPT flag for sense requests 2021-01-12 20:16:09 +01:00
fs exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore 2021-01-09 13:44:55 +01:00
include exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore 2021-01-09 13:44:55 +01:00
init exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore 2021-01-09 13:44:55 +01:00
ipc
kernel workqueue: Kick a worker based on the actual activation of delayed works 2021-01-12 20:16:09 +01:00
lib lib/syscall: fix syscall registers retrieval on 32-bit platforms 2020-12-11 13:23:32 +01:00
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net net/sched: sch_taprio: reset child qdiscs before freeing them 2021-01-06 14:48:35 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix lwt_len_hist reusing previous BPF map 2020-12-30 11:51:12 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if() 2020-12-30 11:51:29 +01:00
security ima: Don't modify file descriptor mode on the fly 2020-12-30 11:51:39 +01:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Clear the full allocated memory at hw_params 2021-01-06 14:48:40 +01:00
tools tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/const.h with the kernel headers 2021-01-06 14:48:37 +01:00
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