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    [SCSI] scsi scan: don't fail scans when host is in recovery · 76e4e12f
    Mike Christie authored
    
    
    The problem is that if we are doing a scsi scan then the device goes
    into recovery then we will wait for the recovery to complete. It waits
    because scsi-ml will send inquiries or report luns and the queueing code
    will have been blocked due to the host not being ready. However, if we
    are in recovery and then a scan is started the scan will silently fail
    and some devices will not be added.
    
    It is easy to hit the problem where devices do not show up with
    FC where we are doing tests that disrupt the target controllers.
    When the controller is disruprted (reboot, or setting firmware, etc),
    and we cause the dev loss tmo to fire then devices will be removed
    Then when the problem has been fixed, the rport will be scanned and
    devices should be added back. But if we cause another disruption before
    scanning has started then devices will not get added back. If the problem
    is not started until the scan is started then the devices will be added
    back.
    
    This patch fixes that problem by not failing scans when the host
    is in recovery. We will let scsi-ml send the IO and let the queueing
    and scsi error handling deal with it like is done if we went into
    recovery while scanning.
    
    For recovery cases where the host is being torn down then with the
    patch we will still fail the scan since there is not point in scanning.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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