netdev - [PATCH net 1/4] nfp: ignore signals when communicating with management FW

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:47:35 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/4] nfp: ignore signals when communicating with management FW

We currently allow signals to interrupt the wait for management FW
commands.  Exiting the wait should not cause trouble, the FW will
just finish executing the command in the background and new commands
will wait for the old one to finish.

However, this may not be what users expect (Ctrl-C not actually stopping
the command).  Moreover some systems routinely request link information
with signals pending (Ubuntu 14.04 runs a landscape-sysinfo python tool
from MOTD) worrying users with errors like these:

nfp 0000:04:00.0: nfp_nsp: Error -512 waiting for code 0x0007 to start
nfp 0000:04:00.0: nfp: reading port table failed -512

Make the wait for management FW responses non-interruptible.

Fixes: 1a64821c6af7 ("nfp: add support for service processor access")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@...ronome.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
index 99bb679a9801..2abee0fe3a7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
@@ -281,8 +281,7 @@ nfp_nsp_wait_reg(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, u64 *reg, u32 nsp_cpp, u64 addr,
 		if ((*reg & mask) == val)
 			return 0;
 
-		if (msleep_interruptible(25))
-			return -ERESTARTSYS;
+		msleep(25);
 
 		if (time_after(start_time, wait_until))
 			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-- 
2.16.2