Re: [PATCH] tcm_qla2xxx: pass timeout as HZ independent value

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

Hi Nicholas,

On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 18:04 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> API compliance scanning with coccinelle flagged:
> ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c:407:2-29:
>          WARNING: timeout is HZ dependent
> 
> This was introduced in 'commit 75f8c1f693ee ("[SCSI] tcm_qla2xxx: Add >=
> 24xx series fabric module for target-core")'. wait_for_completion_timeout()
> expects a timeout in jiffies so the numeric constant makes the effective 
> timeout HZ dependent. Resolved by converting it to CONST * HZ.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> As the intended timeout is not documented I'm guessing that it should be
> 3000 milliseconds but someone that knows the driver needs to check if that
> is a reasonable guess.
> 
> Further its not clear why the timeout event if it were to occure does not
> produce some debug message and/or pass it up through the return value.
> 
> Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y,
> CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS=y, CONFIG_TARGET_CORE=m, CONFIG_LIBFC=m,
> CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_FC=m, CONFIG_TCM_QLA2XXX=m
> 
> Patch is against 4.2-rc1 (localversion-next is -next-20150706)
> 
>  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
> index d9a8c60..33364b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c
> @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static int tcm_qla2xxx_write_pending_status(struct se_cmd *se_cmd)
>  	    se_cmd->t_state == TRANSPORT_COMPLETE_QF_WP) {
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_cmd->t_state_lock, flags);
>  		wait_for_completion_timeout(&se_cmd->t_transport_stop_comp,
> -						3000);
> +					    3 * HZ);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se_cmd->t_state_lock, flags);

Applied to target-pending/master, and will include in the next v4.2-rc
fixes PULL request.

Thanks!

--nab


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