Re: please fix FUSION (Was:[v3.13][v3.14][Regression]kthread:makekthread_create()killable)

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 09:04 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > But then systemd/udev mutters:
> > > 
> > >    "You migh be able to work around the timeout with udev rules and
> > >     OPTIONS+="event_timeout=120", but that code was maybe never used
> > >     or tested, so it might not work correctly." [1]
> > > 
> > > AFAICT from the ubuntu bug system [2] nobody bothered even to try that.
> > > 
> > > And if the udev/systemd event_timeout option is broken it's way better
> > > to fix that one instead of hacking random heuristics into the kernel.
> > 
> > I haven't tried the event_timeout= option but I think it will not work.
> > The timeout is hard coded as shown below and there will be no chance for taking
> > the event_timeout= option into account.
> > 
> > ---------- systemd-204/src/udev/udevd.c start ----------
> > (...snipped...)
> >                         /* check for hanging events */
> >                         udev_list_node_foreach(loop, &worker_list) {
> >                                 struct worker *worker = node_to_worker(loop);
> > 
> >                                 if (worker->state != WORKER_RUNNING)
> >                                         continue;
> > 
> >                                 if ((now(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) - worker->event_start_usec) > 30 * 1000 * 1000) {
> 
> And because systemd has an immutable hardcoded random timeout we add
> another hardcoded random timeout into kthread_create() to work around
> that.
> 
> How broken is that?
> 
> And it seems other people have solved it:
> 
>     http://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2013-September/msg00036.html

I agree with Thomas.  A hardcoded timeout is a systemd bug.  However,
could I get confirmation, while you can use this bug to do it, that the
patch back in this thread actually fixes the crash when scsi_alloc_host
fails, that's the serious SCSI bug, in my view?

Thanks,

James