[SCSI] sd: improve logic and efficiecy of media-change detection

This patch (as1415) improves the formerly incomprehensible logic in
sd_media_changed() (the current code refers to "changed" as a state,
whereas in fact it is a relation between two states).  It also adds a
big comment so that everyone can understand what is really going on.

The patch also improves efficiency by not reporting a media change
when no medium was ever present.  If no medium was present the last
time we checked and there's still no medium, it's not necessary to
tell the caller that a change occurred.  Doing so merely causes the
caller to attempt to revalidate a non-existent disk, which is a waste
of time.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 956496182c8..26f9d54a9c9 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static int sd_prep_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 		 * quietly refuse to do anything to a changed disc until 
 		 * the changed bit has been reset
 		 */
-		/* printk("SCSI disk has been changed. Prohibiting further I/O.\n"); */
+		/* printk("SCSI disk has been changed or is not present. Prohibiting further I/O.\n"); */
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1023,7 +1023,6 @@ static int sd_media_changed(struct gendisk *disk)
 	 */
 	if (!scsi_device_online(sdp)) {
 		set_media_not_present(sdkp);
-		retval = 1;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1054,7 +1053,6 @@ static int sd_media_changed(struct gendisk *disk)
 		       /* 0x3a is medium not present */
 		       sshdr->asc == 0x3a)) {
 		set_media_not_present(sdkp);
-		retval = 1;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1065,12 +1063,27 @@ static int sd_media_changed(struct gendisk *disk)
 	 */
 	sdkp->media_present = 1;
 
-	retval = sdp->changed;
-	sdp->changed = 0;
 out:
-	if (retval != sdkp->previous_state)
+	/*
+	 * Report a media change under the following conditions:
+	 *
+	 *	Medium is present now and wasn't present before.
+	 *	Medium wasn't present before and is present now.
+	 *	Medium was present at all times, but it changed while
+	 *		we weren't looking (sdp->changed is set).
+	 *
+	 * If there was no medium before and there is no medium now then
+	 * don't report a change, even if a medium was inserted and removed
+	 * while we weren't looking.
+	 */
+	retval = (sdkp->media_present != sdkp->previous_state ||
+			(sdkp->media_present && sdp->changed));
+	if (retval)
 		sdev_evt_send_simple(sdp, SDEV_EVT_MEDIA_CHANGE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	sdkp->previous_state = retval;
+	sdkp->previous_state = sdkp->media_present;
+
+	/* sdp->changed indicates medium was changed or is not present */
+	sdp->changed = !sdkp->media_present;
 	kfree(sshdr);
 	return retval;
 }