[PATCH RFC] s390/sclp: pass timeout as HZ independent value

Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-27T17:04:43Z

schedule_timeout takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
passing in a constant SDIAS_SLEEP_TICKS which sounds like it should be
in jiffies but it is actually not and thus makes this timeout HZ
dependent, to fix this it is passed through msecs_to_jiffies().

patch was not even compile tested as s390 toolchain from kernel.org
failed for me (on a debian wheezy x86_64) with:
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option '-mtune=zEC12'

Patch is against 4.0-rc5 (localversion-next is -next-20150527)

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
---

As there is no documentation of the intended timeout it might be wrong
to convert it with msecs_to_jiffies() since the effective timeout is
at least a factor 10 smaller than it is now - so someone that knows this
driver needs to check on the actual value - but in any case it needs to
be passed in a HZ independent way.

drivers/s390/char/sclp_sdias.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_sdias.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_sdias.c
index eb7cb07..ab92a75 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_sdias.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_sdias.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int sdias_sclp_send(struct sclp_req *req)
/* not initiated, wait some time and retry */
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
TRACE("add request failed: rc = %i\n",rc);
- schedule_timeout(SDIAS_SLEEP_TICKS);
+ schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(SDIAS_SLEEP_TICKS));
continue;
}
/* initiated, wait for completion of service call */
--
1.7.10.4