Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c: Improve the failure processing for __xenbus_switch_state()

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 09/14/2014 06:52 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> When failure occurs, need return failure code instead of 0, or the upper
> caller will misunderstand.
>
> Also when retry for EAGAIN reason, better to schedule out for a while,
> so can let others have chance to continue their tasks (especially,
> their tasks are related EAGAIN under UP kernel).
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 9 ++++++---
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
> index 620ffd2..fc8699b 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>   #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>   #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>   #include <linux/export.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
>   #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
>   #include <asm/xen/page.h>
>   #include <xen/interface/xen.h>
> @@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ again:
>   	err = xenbus_transaction_start(&xbt);
>   	if (err) {
>   		xenbus_switch_fatal(dev, depth, err, "starting transaction");
> -		return 0;
> +		return err;
>   	}
>   
>   	err = xenbus_scanf(xbt, dev->nodename, "state", "%d", &current_state);
> @@ -213,13 +214,15 @@ again:
>   abort:
>   	err = xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, abort);
>   	if (err) {
> -		if (err == -EAGAIN && !abort)
> +		if (err == -EAGAIN && !abort) {
> +			msleep(20);

I'd suggest you use schedule() here.

-boris

>   			goto again;
> +		}
>   		xenbus_switch_fatal(dev, depth, err, "ending transaction");
>   	} else
>   		dev->state = state;
>   
> -	return 0;
> +	return err;
>   }
>   
>   /**