scsi: sd: Rely on the driver core for asynchronous probing
As explained during the 2018 LSF/MM session about increasing SCSI disk probing concurrency, the problems with the current probing approach are as follows: - The driver core is unaware of asynchronous SCSI LUN probing. wait_for_device_probe() waits for all asynchronous probes except asynchronous SCSI disk probes. - There is unnecessary serialization between sd_probe() and sd_remove(). This can lead to a deadlock. Hence this patch that modifies the sd driver such that it uses the driver core framework for asynchronous probing. The async domain and get_device()/put_device() pairs that became superfluous due to this change are removed. This patch does not affect the time needed for loading the scsi_debug kernel module with parameters delay=0 and max_luns=256. This patch depends on commit ef0ff683 ("driver core: Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver") that went upstream in kernel version v5.1-rc1. Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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