linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 133/366] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL NVRAM driver OPAL

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Message-ID: <lsq.1539530741.831448628@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:25:41 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "Michael Ellerman" <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 133/366] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL NVRAM driver
 OPAL_BUSY loops

3.16.60-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>

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 <npiggin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 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 <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
@@ -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)