From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Adriano Vero <litaliano00.contact@gmail.com>,
maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Adriano Vero <litaliano00.contact@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fadump: Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:36:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wlyjl8h1.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260406061542.22354-1-litaliano00.contact@gmail.com>
Adriano Vero <litaliano00.contact@gmail.com> writes:
> The ibm,configure-kernel-dump RTAS call sites in
> rtas_fadump_register(), rtas_fadump_unregister(), and
> rtas_fadump_invalidate() polled indefinitely while firmware returned
> a busy status. A misbehaving or hung firmware could stall these paths
> forever, blocking fadump registration at boot or preventing clean
> teardown.
Was there an issue which you encountered? Can you share the details of
the same please?
>
> Track the accumulated delay in a total_wait counter and bail out with
> -ETIMEDOUT if it reaches RTAS_FADUMP_MAX_WAIT_MS (60 seconds) before
> firmware signals completion. This follows the bounded busy-wait pattern
> used in rtas-rtc.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adriano Vero <litaliano00.contact@gmail.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 4:07 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-06 6:15 [PATCH] powerpc/fadump: Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops Adriano Vero
2026-04-07 4:06 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
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