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virtio_scsi tries to do exception handling after the default 30 seconds timeout expires. However, it's better to let the host control the timeout, otherwise with a heavy I/O load it is likely that an abort will also timeout. This leads to fatal errors like filesystems going offline. Disable the 'sd' timeout and allow the host to do exception handling, following the precedent of the storvsc driver. Hannes has a proposal to introduce timeouts in virtio, but this provides an immediate solution for stable kernels too. [mkp: fixed typo] Reported-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.