Timeout Handler

The HBA driver should be prepared to time out the command if it is not complete within a specified time unless a zero timeout was specified in the scsi_pkt(9S) structure.

When a command times out, the HBA driver should mark the scsi_pkt(9S) with pkt_reason set to CMD_TIMEOUT and pkt_statistics OR'd with STAT_TIMEOUT. The HBA driver should also attempt to recover the target and/or bus and, if this recovery can be performed successfully, mark the scsi_pkt(9S) with pkt_statistics OR'd with either STAT_BUS_RESET or STAT_DEV_RESET.

Once the command has timed out and the target and bus recovery attempt has completed, the HBA driver should call the command completion callback.

If recovery was unsuccessful or not attempted, the target driver may attempt to recover from the timeout by calling scsi_reset(9F).

The ISP hardware manages command timeout directly and returns timed-out commands with the necessary status, so the isp sample driver timeout handler checks active commands for timeout state only once every 60 seconds.

The isp sample driver uses the timeout(9F) facility to arrange for the kernel to call the timeout handler every 60 seconds. The caddr_t argument is the parameter set up when the timeout is initialized at attach(9E) time. In this case, the caddr_t argument is a pointer to the state structure allocated per driver instance.

If the driver discovers timed-out commands that have not been returned as timed-out by the ISP hardware, the hardware is not functioning correctly and needs to be reset.