From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:37204 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728141AbeJNX1h (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:27:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Nicholas Piggin" , "Michael Ellerman" Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:25:41 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.16 133/366] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL NVRAM driver OPAL_BUSY loops In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.16.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nicholas Piggin commit 3b8070335f751aac9f1526ae2e012e6f5b8b0f21 upstream. The OPAL NVRAM driver does not sleep in case it gets OPAL_BUSY or OPAL_BUSY_EVENT from firmware, which causes large scheduling latencies, and various lockup errors to trigger (again, BMC reboot can cause it). Fix this by converting it to the standard form OPAL_BUSY loop that sleeps. Fixes: 628daa8d5abf ("powerpc/powernv: Add RTC and NVRAM support plus RTAS fallbacks") Depends-on: 34dd25de9fe3 ("powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry loops") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #define DEBUG +#include #include #include #include @@ -55,8 +56,12 @@ static ssize_t opal_nvram_write(char *bu while (rc == OPAL_BUSY || rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { rc = opal_write_nvram(__pa(buf), count, off); - if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) + if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); opal_poll_events(NULL); + } else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) { + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); + } } if (rc)