RE: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Relax platform response timeout to 1 second.

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Fri Oct 15 2021 - 11:37:11 EST


> We observe that the waiting time for DDR error injection is about 10 ms
> and that for PCIe error injection is about 500 ms in Arm platfrom.
>
> In this patch, we relax the response timeout to 1 second and allow user to
> pass the time out value as a argument.

Spinning for 1ms was maybe ok. Spinning for up to 1s seems like a bad idea.

This code is executed inside a mutex ... so maybe it is safe to sleep instead of spin?

-Tony