Re: [PATCH] ipmi: looped device detection

[Patrick Venture]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:52 PM Patrick Venture <venture@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Try to get the device ID repeatedly during initialization before giving up.
> The BMC isn't always responsive, and this allows it to be slightly flaky
> during early boot.
>
> Tested: Installed on a system with the BMC software disabled
> such that it was non-responsive.  The driver correctly detected this
> and gave up as expected.  Then I re-enabled the BMC software unloaded
> and reloaded the driver and it was detected properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Venture <venture@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 90ec010bffbd..a1ca34af7698 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -1918,11 +1918,14 @@ int ipmi_si_add_smi(struct si_sm_io *io)
>   * held, primarily to keep smi_num consistent, we only one to do these
>   * one at a time.
>   */
> +#define GET_DEVICE_ID_ATTEMPTS 5
>  static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi)
>  {
>         int rv = 0;
>         int i;
>         char *init_name = NULL;
> +       bool platform_device_registered = false;

platform_device_registered -- looks like I accidentally included a
variable from my branch.

> +       unsigned long sleep_rm;
>
>         pr_info(PFX "Trying %s-specified %s state machine at %s address 0x%lx, slave address 0x%x, irq %d\n",
>                 ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->io.addr_source),
> @@ -2003,7 +2006,26 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi)
>          * Attempt a get device id command.  If it fails, we probably
>          * don't have a BMC here.
>          */
> -       rv = try_get_dev_id(new_smi);
> +       for (i = 0; i < GET_DEVICE_ID_ATTEMPTS; i++) {
> +               pr_info(PFX "Attempting to read BMC device ID\n");
> +               rv = try_get_dev_id(new_smi);
> +               /* If it succeeded, stop trying */
> +               if (!rv)
> +                       break;
> +
> +               /* Sleep for ~0.25s before trying again instead of hammering
> +                * the BMC.
> +                */
> +               sleep_rm = msleep_interruptible(250);
> +               if (sleep_rm != 0) {
> +                       pr_info(PFX "Find BMC interrupted\n");
> +                       rv = -EINTR;
> +                       goto out_err;
> +               }
> +       }
> +
> +       /* If we exited the loop above and rv is non-zero we ran out of tries.
> +        */
>         if (rv) {
>                 if (new_smi->io.addr_source)
>                         dev_err(new_smi->io.dev,
> --
> 2.19.0.rc2.392.g5ba43deb5a-goog
>