Re: [PATCH] PCI: aardvark: Don't rely on jiffies while holding spinlock

[Andrew Murray]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 04:23:03PM +0200, Remi Pommarel wrote:
> advk_pcie_wait_pio() can be called while holding a spinlock (from
> pci_bus_read_config_dword()), then depends on jiffies in order to
> timeout while polling on PIO state registers. In the case the PIO
> transaction failed, the timeout will never happen and will also cause
> the cpu to stall.
> 
> This decrements a variable and wait instead of using jiffies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
> index fc0fe4d4de49..1fa6d04ad7aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,8 @@
>  	(PCIE_CONF_BUS(bus) | PCIE_CONF_DEV(PCI_SLOT(devfn))	| \
>  	 PCIE_CONF_FUNC(PCI_FUNC(devfn)) | PCIE_CONF_REG(where))
>  
> -#define PIO_TIMEOUT_MS			1
> +#define PIO_RETRY_CNT			10
> +#define PIO_RETRY_DELAY			100 /* 100 us*/
>  
>  #define LINK_WAIT_MAX_RETRIES		10
>  #define LINK_WAIT_USLEEP_MIN		90000
> @@ -383,17 +384,16 @@ static void advk_pcie_check_pio_status(struct advk_pcie *pcie)
>  static int advk_pcie_wait_pio(struct advk_pcie *pcie)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev = &pcie->pdev->dev;
> -	unsigned long timeout;
> +	size_t i;
>  
> -	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(PIO_TIMEOUT_MS);
> -
> -	while (time_before(jiffies, timeout)) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < PIO_RETRY_CNT; ++i) {
>  		u32 start, isr;
>  
>  		start = advk_readl(pcie, PIO_START);
>  		isr = advk_readl(pcie, PIO_ISR);
>  		if (!start && isr)
>  			return 0;
> +		udelay(PIO_RETRY_DELAY);
>  	}
>  
>  	dev_err(dev, "config read/write timed out\n");
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>