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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: fix wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return handling
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:43:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160726064334.GA30333@osadl.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160725205402.GC1698@katana>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:54:03PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:21:50PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return 0 on timeout and 
> > -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted. The check for 
> > !wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() would report an interrupt
> > as timeout. Further, while HZ/50 will work most of the time it could 
> 
> Wouldn't it interpret -ERESTARTSYS as *no timeout*?
>

yup - actually the current code just treats the -ERESTARTSYS 
case as success.
 
> Anyway, the plain !0 comparison for me clearly shows that
> 'interruptible' was more copy&pasted then really planned or supported.
> If it was, it would need to cancel something. Also, 20ms is pretty hard
> to cancel for a user ;) Given all that and the troubles we had with
> 'interruptible' in the I2C subsystem, I'd much vote for dropping
> interruptible here.
> 
> > fail for HZ < 50, so this is switched to msecs_to_jiffies(20).
> 
> Rest looks good, thanks!
> 

thx!
hofrat

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25 19:21 [PATCH] staging: ks7010: fix wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout return handling Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-07-25 20:54 ` Wolfram Sang
2016-07-26  6:43   ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]

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