an be held for the entire time traversing the link list objects, and the bitmask was set to indicate which device handles need blocking. Oustide the lock the ioc->blocking_handles bitmask is traversed, with the respective device handle the scsi mid layer is called for moving devices into blocking state. Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama Signed-off-by: James Bottomley _Û]¿’