scsi_unblock_requests(9)

💅 scsi_unblock_requests(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, the section 9 girlies know and love 💖 you're about to learn scsi_unblock_requests, and honestly? she's a small function with main character energy.

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✨ NAME ✨

scsi_unblock_requests — a utility function the low-level drivers use so they can let more commands get queued to the device again. the gates reopen, the queue breathes, the vibes resume 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void scsi_unblock_requests(struct Scsi_Host *shost);

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• shost — the host in question, i.e. the host you're unblocking. that's the whole argument, she's low maintenance 💅

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

bestie, listen. there is no timer, and there is genuinely no other means by which those requests get unblocked — the only thing that does it is the low-level driver calling scsi_unblock_requests itself. no cap, no secret backup mechanism, no fairy godmother 🧚

so why is it an API function instead of just vibes? because this way, when the internals of the scsi mid-layer change, the drivers that use this feature don't need wholesale changes of their own. the internals stay in their lane, the drivers stay in theirs ✨ iconic design choice, honestly 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

kernel file ./drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c, plus the whole friend group 💜

• __scsi_queue_insert(9)
• scsi_queue_insert(9)
• scsi_failures_reset_retries(9)
• scsi_check_passthrough(9)
• scsi_execute_cmd(9)
• scsi_run_queue(9)
• scsi_result_to_blk_status(9)
• scsi_rq_err_bytes(9)
• scsi_io_completion(9)
• scsi_alloc_sgtables(9)
• scsi_initialize_rq(9)
• scsi_alloc_request(9)
• scsi_dispatch_cmd(9)
• scsi_get_internal_cmd(9)
• scsi_put_internal_cmd(9)
• scsi_device_from_queue(9)
• scsi_block_requests(9) ← her literal counterpart, the block/unblock duo 🫶
• scsi_mode_select(9)
• scsi_mode_sense(9)
• scsi_test_unit_ready(9)
• scsi_device_set_state(9)
• scsi_evt_emit(9)
• scsi_evt_thread(9)
• sdev_evt_send(9)
• sdev_evt_alloc(9)
• sdev_evt_send_simple(9)
• scsi_device_quiesce(9)
• scsi_device_resume(9)
• scsi_internal_device_block_nowait(9)
• scsi_device_block(9)
• scsi_internal_device_unblock_nowait(9)
• scsi_internal_device_unblock(9)
• scsi_block_targets(9)
• scsi_host_block(9)
• scsi_kmap_atomic_sg(9)
• scsi_kunmap_atomic_sg(9)
• scsi_vpd_lun_id(9)
• scsi_vpd_lun_serial(9)
• scsi_vpd_tpg_id(9)
• scsi_build_sense(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and she ate 💅

this has been scsi_unblock_requests(9) from the ./drivers/scsi directory, dated October 2026 🌈 go unblock some requests, ily, mwah 🫶💖