Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Fail IPC send if still busy

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:39:36PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> It's possible for interrupts to get significantly delayed to the point
> that callers of intel_scu_ipc_dev_command() and friends can call the
> function once, hit a timeout, and call it again while the interrupt
> still hasn't been processed. This driver will get seriously confused if
> the interrupt is finally processed after the second IPC has been sent
> with ipc_command(). It won't know which IPC has been completed. This
> could be quite disastrous if calling code assumes something has happened
> upon return from intel_scu_ipc_dev_simple_command() when it actually
> hasn't.
> 
> Let's avoid this scenario by simply returning -EBUSY in this case.
> Hopefully higher layers will know to back off or fail gracefully when
> this happens. It's all highly unlikely anyway, but it's better to be
> correct here as we have no way to know which IPC the status register is
> telling us about if we send a second IPC while the previous IPC is still
> processing.
> 
> Cc: Prashant Malani <pmalani@chromium.org>
> Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>