Here's the proof of concept for this one.  It converts scsi_wait_req to
do correct REQ_BLOCK_PC submission (and works nicely in my setup).

The final goal should be to eliminate struct scsi_request, but that
can't be done until the character submission paths of sg and st are also
modified.

There's some loss of functionality to this: retries are no longer
controllable (except by setting REQ_FASTFAIL) and the wait_req API needs
to be altered, but it looks very nice.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_init_io calls scsi_alloc_sgtable and then calls blk_rq_map_sg
to initialize the scatterlist structure.  blk_rq_map_sg() already
memset the structure for every new segment.  That makes the memset
in scsi_alloc_sgtable unnecessary.

Patch to delete the extra memset in scsi_alloc_sgtable.  Tested on
a x86_64 machine.  Looks stable to me.
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

The check in

627  		BUG_ON(index > SG_MEMPOOL_NR);

with SG_MEMPOOL_NR defined in

32   	#define SG_MEMPOOL_NR		(sizeof(scsi_sg_pools)/sizeof(struct scsi_host_sg_pool))

was not sufficient.

sgp, set in

629  		sgp = scsi_sg_pools + index;

is dereferenced in

630  		mempool_free(sgl, sgp->pool);
Signed-off-by: NZaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We never look at it except for the old megaraid driver that abuses it
for sending internal commands.  That usage can be fixed easily because
those internal commands are single-threaded by a mutex and we can easily
use a completion there.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

never checked anywhere
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Never used for anything but printing it out in debug routines.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Another rollup of patches which give various symbols static scope
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

scsi_queue_insert() has four callers.  Three callers call with
timer disabled and one (the second invocation in
scsi_dispatch_cmd()) calls with timer activated.
scsi_queue_insert() used to always call scsi_delete_timer()
and ignore the return value.  This results in race with timer
expiration.  Remove scsi_delete_timer() call from
scsi_queue_insert() and make the caller delete timer and check
the return value.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_queue_insert() used to use blk_insert_request() for requeueing
requests.  This depends on the unobvious behavior of
blk_insert_request() setting REQ_SPECIAL and REQ_SOFTBARRIER when
requeueing.  This patch makes scsi_queue_insert() use
blk_requeue_request().  As REQ_SPECIAL means special requests and
REQ_SOFTBARRIER is automatically handled by blk layer now, no flag
needs to be set.

Note that scsi_queue_insert() now calls scsi_run_queue() itself, and
the prototype of the function is added right above
scsi_queue_insert().  This is temporary, as later requeue path
consolidation patchset removes scsi_queue_insert().  By adding
temporary prototype, we can do away with unnecessarily moving
functions.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_requeue_request() used to use blk_insert_request() for requeueing
requests.  This depends on the unobvious behavior of
blk_insert_request() setting REQ_SPECIAL and REQ_SOFTBARRIER when
requeueing.  This patch makes scsi_queue_insert() use
blk_requeue_request().  As REQ_SPECIAL means special requests and
REQ_SOFTBARRIER is automatically handled by blk layer now, no flag
needs to be set.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

blk_insert_request() has a unobivous feature of requeuing a
request setting REQ_SPECIAL|REQ_SOFTBARRIER.  SCSI midlayer
was the only user and as previous patches removed the usage,
remove the feature from blk_insert_request().  Only special
requests should be queued with blk_insert_request().  All
requeueing should go through blk_requeue_request().
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_init_io() used to set REQ_SPECIAL when it fails sg
allocation before requeueing the request by returning
BLKPREP_DEFER.  REQ_SPECIAL is being updated to mean special
requests.  So, remove REQ_SPECIAL setting.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_cmnd->serial_number_at_timeout doesn't serve any purpose
anymore.  All serial_number == serial_number_at_timeout tests
are always true in abort callbacks.  Kill the field.  Also, as
->pid always equals ->serial_number and ->serial_number
doesn't have any special meaning anymore, update comments
above ->serial_number accordingly.  Once we remove all uses of
this field from all lldd's, this field should go.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_cmnd->internal_timeout field doesn't have any meaning
anymore.  Kill the field.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_cmnd->serial_number_at_timeout doesn't serve any purpose
anymore.  All serial_number == serial_number_at_timeout tests
are always true in abort callbacks.  Kill the field.  Also, as
->pid always equals ->serial_number and ->serial_number
doesn't have any special meaning anymore, update comments
above ->serial_number accordingly.  Once we remove all uses of
this field from all lldd's, this field should go.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

scsi_cmnd->internal_timeout field doesn't have any meaning
anymore.  Kill the field.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

The current problem seen is that the queue lock is actually in the
SCSI device structure, so when that structure is freed on device
release, we go boom if the queue tries to access the lock again.

The fix here is to move the lock from the scsi_device to the queue.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!