[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL NVRAM driver OPAL_BUSY loops

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 21:49:33 AEST 2018


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: 628daa8d5abfd ("powerpc/powernv: Add RTC and NVRAM support plus RTAS fallbacks")
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c
index ba2ff06a2c98..1bceb95f422d 100644
--- 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>
@@ -56,8 +57,12 @@ static ssize_t opal_nvram_write(char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *index)
 
 	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)
-- 
2.17.0



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