linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 053/183] cxl: Add timeout to process element commands

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:06:15 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 053/183] cxl: Add timeout to process element commands

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

commit a98e6e9f4e0224d85b4d951edc44af16dfe6094a upstream.

In the event that something goes wrong in the hardware and it is unable
to complete a process element comment we would end up polling forever,
effectively making the associated process unkillable.

This patch adds a timeout to the process element command code path, so
that we will give up if the hardware does not respond in a reasonable
time.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/misc/cxl/native.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int do_process_element_cmd(struct
 				  u64 cmd, u64 pe_state)
 {
 	u64 state;
+	unsigned long timeout = jiffies + (HZ * CXL_TIMEOUT);
 
 	WARN_ON(!ctx->afu->enabled);
 
@@ -286,6 +287,10 @@ static int do_process_element_cmd(struct
 	smp_mb();
 	cxl_p1n_write(ctx->afu, CXL_PSL_LLCMD_An, cmd | ctx->pe);
 	while (1) {
+		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, timeout)) {
+			dev_warn(&ctx->afu->dev, "WARNING: Process Element Command timed out!\n");
+			return -EBUSY;
+		}
 		state = be64_to_cpup(ctx->afu->sw_command_status);
 		if (state == ~0ULL) {
 			pr_err("cxl: Error adding process element to AFU\n");


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