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* [18/82] x86, olpc: Dont retry EC commands forever
@ 2010-11-19 21:55 Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2010-11-19 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, stable
  Cc: stable-review, torvalds, akpm, alan, Daniel Drake, dilinger,
	Ingo Molnar

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>

commit 286e5b97eb22baab9d9a41ca76c6b933a484252c upstream.

Avoids a potential infinite loop.

It was observed once, during an EC hacking/debugging
session - not in regular operation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: dilinger@queued.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int olpc_ec_cmd(unsigned char cmd, unsig
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret = -EIO;
 	int i;
+	int restarts = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ec_lock, flags);
 
@@ -173,7 +174,9 @@ restart:
 			if (wait_on_obf(0x6c, 1)) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR "olpc-ec:  timeout waiting for"
 						" EC to provide data!\n");
-				goto restart;
+				if (restarts++ < 10)
+					goto restart;
+				goto err;
 			}
 			outbuf[i] = inb(0x68);
 			printk(KERN_DEBUG "olpc-ec:  received 0x%x\n",



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