Re: [PATCH 1/3] hwmon (occ): Store error condition for rate-limited polls
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Apr 16 2019 - 18:13:21 EST
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:43:48PM +0000, Eddie James wrote:
> The OCC driver limits the rate of sending poll commands to the OCC. If a
> user reads a hwmon entry after a poll response resulted in an error and
> is rate-limited, the error is invisible to the user. Fix this by storing
> the last error and returning that in the rate-limited case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied.
Thanks,
Guenter
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c | 4 ++++
> drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> index 9d197e9..13a6290 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
> @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ static int occ_poll(struct occ *occ)
> /* mutex should already be locked if necessary */
> rc = occ->send_cmd(occ, cmd);
> if (rc) {
> + occ->last_error = rc;
> if (occ->error_count++ > OCC_ERROR_COUNT_THRESHOLD)
> occ->error = rc;
>
> @@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ static int occ_poll(struct occ *occ)
>
> /* clear error since communication was successful */
> occ->error_count = 0;
> + occ->last_error = 0;
> occ->error = 0;
>
> /* check for safe state */
> @@ -210,6 +212,8 @@ int occ_update_response(struct occ *occ)
> if (time_after(jiffies, occ->last_update + OCC_UPDATE_FREQUENCY)) {
> rc = occ_poll(occ);
> occ->last_update = jiffies;
> + } else {
> + rc = occ->last_error;
> }
>
> mutex_unlock(&occ->lock);
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h
> index ed2cf42..fc13f3c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h
> @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ struct occ {
> struct attribute_group group;
> const struct attribute_group *groups[2];
>
> - int error; /* latest transfer error */
> + int error; /* final transfer error after retry */
> + int last_error; /* latest transfer error */
> unsigned int error_count; /* number of xfr errors observed */
> unsigned long last_safe; /* time OCC entered "safe" state */
>