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[SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock
authornagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:07:14 +0000 (15:37 +0530)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:49:11 +0000 (11:49 -0500)
commit69f1643510148250c862535bb6be773a6fda0bae
treee7d94739f667a27e0664785ab7553f9c3711c10b
parentcbf9e6a3a7da687e9a525b4da85440ba50ac062c
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock

Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock.

The deadlock is between two spin locks, between the shost->host_lock
and driver ioc->sas_device_lock.

The fix is to rearrange the code in the  FW/Driver device removal
handshake so the ioc->sas_device_lock is not occurring when the
shost->host_lock is taken.

[jejb: zero initialise sas_address to fix spurious compiler warning]
Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c