[SCSI] aacraid: Re-start helper thread if it dies

Received from Mark Salyzyn

Since the helper thread for the driver can be killed unceremoniously by
an application, we detect the loss of the helper and restart it.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
index 47fefca72695d02f3959b7a4e5c846a9c611c9bf..9f75144e5247e1a9a4ed5501fd0ffc6d9d3c4304 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -293,6 +295,16 @@ return_fib:
                status = 0;
        } else {
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->fib_lock, flags);
+               /* If someone killed the AIF aacraid thread, restart it */
+               status = !dev->aif_thread;
+               if (status && dev->queues && dev->fsa_dev) {
+                       /* Be paranoid, be very paranoid! */
+                       kthread_stop(dev->thread);
+                       ssleep(1);
+                       dev->aif_thread = 0;
+                       dev->thread = kthread_run(aac_command_thread, dev, dev->name);
+                       ssleep(1);
+               }
                if (f.wait) {
                        if(down_interruptible(&fibctx->wait_sem) < 0) {
                                status = -EINTR;