linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 05/10] power/reset: xgene: Use mdelay instead of jiffies based timeout

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:48:31 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Loc Ho <lho@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 05/10] power/reset: xgene: Use mdelay instead of jiffies based timeout

jiffies are not running at this stage of system shutdown, meaning an
error in the reset function would never be reported. Replace with mdelay().

Cc: Loc Ho <lho@....com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
---
 drivers/power/reset/xgene-reboot.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/xgene-reboot.c b/drivers/power/reset/xgene-reboot.c
index 1bab003..ae470b8 100644
--- a/drivers/power/reset/xgene-reboot.c
+++ b/drivers/power/reset/xgene-reboot.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  * For system shutdown, this is board specify. If a board designer
  * implements GPIO shutdown, use the gpio-poweroff.c driver.
  */
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/of_address.h>
@@ -43,15 +44,12 @@ static struct xgene_reboot_context *xgene_restart_ctx;
 static void xgene_restart(char str, const char *cmd)
 {
 	struct xgene_reboot_context *ctx = xgene_restart_ctx;
-	unsigned long timeout;
 
 	/* Issue the reboot */
 	if (ctx)
 		writel(ctx->mask, ctx->csr);
 
-	timeout = jiffies + HZ;
-	while (time_before(jiffies, timeout))
-		cpu_relax();
+	mdelay(1000);
 
 	dev_emerg(ctx->dev, "Unable to restart system\n");
 }
-- 
1.9.1

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