[Skiboot] [PATCH] p8-i2c: Limit number of retry attempts

[Stewart Smith]

Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com> writes:
> Current we will attempt to start an I2C transaction until it succeeds.
> In the event that the OCC does not release the lock on an I2C bus this
> results in an async token being held forever and the kernel thread that
> started the transaction will block forever while waiting for an async
> completion message. Fix this by limiting the number of attempts to
> start the transaction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>
> ---
>  hw/p8-i2c.c   | 12 ++++++++++--
>  include/i2c.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks, merged to master as of c2e404aedd52da91fdf605e24b9d1ae7894974c5.


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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.