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Message-ID: <af23852b836c9740e01ad88d0d7ebc54ea71f57c.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:48:35 +0000
From:   "Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>
To:     "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     "airlied@...hat.com" <airlied@...hat.com>,
        "Lubart, Vitaly" <vitaly.lubart@...el.com>,
        "Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        "joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com" <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com" <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com>,
        "intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com" <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        "daniel@...ll.ch" <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 0/2] mei: add timeout to send

On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 18:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:20:28AM -0500, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 02:47:33PM +0200, Alexander Usyskin wrote:
> > > When driver wakes up the firmware from the low power state,
> > > it is sending a memory ready message.
> > > The send is done via synchronous/blocking function to ensure
> > > that firmware is in ready state. However, in case of firmware
> > > undergoing reset send might be block forever.
> > > To address this issue a timeout is added to blocking
> > > write command on the internal bus.
> > > 
> > > Introduce the __mei_cl_send_timeout function to use instead of
> > > __mei_cl_send in cases where timeout is required.
> > > The mei_cl_write has only two callers and there is no need to
> > > split
> > > it into two functions.
> > > 
> > > V2: address review comments:
> > >  - split __mei_cl_send and __mei_cl_send_timeout
> > >  - add units to timeout KDoc
> > >  - use MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT to squash wait to one macro
> > > 
> > > V3: - split the state fix into separate patch
> > >     - document define unit
> > >     - expand timeout KDoc
> > 
> > These 2 patches looks good to me now.
> > 
> > Greg, whenever you review it, please let me know if it is
> > okay to me to push these through the drm-fixes, or if you
> > prefer these to the mei branches.
> 
> These have been in my tree for over a week now, sorry.  No one told
> me
> not to take them...
> 
> {sigh}

no worries at all. The important thing is that the users will get the
fix.
We can keep them in our topic/core-for-CI while our branches are out-
of-sync.

Thanks a lot,
Rodrigo.

> 
> greg k-h

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