linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] NVMe changes for 4.5-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:58:18 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] NVMe changes for 4.5-rc1

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com> wrote:
>
> Note that pulling this in will conflict with master, since the code was
> forked off pretty early, and we had a good chunk of nvme fixes later in
> the 4.4 cycle.

Not just conflict, but conflict in bad ways. I don't think I'll be
able to fix it up sanely.

In particular, commit b5875222de2f ("NVMe: IO ending fixes on surprise
removal") by Keith Busch added this to nvme_dev_remove():

    if (nvme_io_incapable(dev)) {
        /*
         * If the device is not capable of IO (surprise hot-removal,
         * for example), we need to quiesce prior to deleting the
         * namespaces. This will end outstanding requests and prevent
         * attempts to sync dirty data.
         */
        nvme_dev_shutdown(dev);
    }

and in your branch we now have:

 - nvme_dev_shutdown() is now nvme_dev_disable(dev, false). Fine.

 - nvme_dev_remove() got renamed to nvme_remove_namespaces(), but also
lost the "dev" argument (it takes "struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl" now).

I think I will end up doing the merge by just dropping that part of
the surprise removal commit, and letting you and Keith work out what
the real solution is..

                 Linus