Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] MTD: xway: remove endless loop

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:14:08 +0200
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> wrote:

> From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
> 
> The reset loop logic could run into a endless loop. Lets fix it as
> requested.
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-September/044240.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c
> index 346781a..61176c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/xway_nand.c
> @@ -73,16 +73,22 @@ struct xway_nand_data {
>  static void xway_reset_chip(struct nand_chip *chip)
>  {
>  	unsigned long nandaddr = (unsigned long) chip->IO_ADDR_W;
> +	unsigned long timeout;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	nandaddr &= ~NAND_WRITE_ADDR;
>  	nandaddr |= NAND_WRITE_CMD;
>  
>  	/* finish with a reset */
> +	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(20);
> +
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&ebu_lock, flags);
>  	writeb(NAND_WRITE_CMD_RESET, (void __iomem *) nandaddr);
> -	while ((ltq_ebu_r32(EBU_NAND_WAIT) & NAND_WAIT_WR_C) == 0)
> -		;
> +	do {
> +		if ((ltq_ebu_r32(EBU_NAND_WAIT) & NAND_WAIT_WR_C) == 0)
> +			break;
> +		cond_resched();
> +	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, timeout));
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ebu_lock, flags);
>  }
>  

AFAICS, this function is doing exactly what
->cmdfunc(NAND_CMD_RESET, -1 , -1) does, except for the NAND_WAIT_WR_C
test? What is this bit representing?

I'd really prefer if you kill this function and just call ->cmdfunc()
instead.