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Bart Van Assche f049cf1a7b scsi: sd: Rely on the driver core for asynchronous probing
As explained during the 2018 LSF/MM session about increasing SCSI disk
probing concurrency, the problems with the current probing approach are as
follows:

 - The driver core is unaware of asynchronous SCSI LUN probing.
   wait_for_device_probe() waits for all asynchronous probes except
   asynchronous SCSI disk probes.

 - There is unnecessary serialization between sd_probe() and sd_remove().
   This can lead to a deadlock.

Hence this patch that modifies the sd driver such that it uses the driver
core framework for asynchronous probing. The async domain and
get_device()/put_device() pairs that became superfluous due to this change
are removed.

This patch does not affect the time needed for loading the scsi_debug
kernel module with parameters delay=0 and max_luns=256.

This patch depends on commit ef0ff68351 ("driver core: Probe devices
asynchronously instead of the driver") that went upstream in kernel version
v5.1-rc1.

Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-06-18 19:46:17 -04:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.