Re: [PATCH V11 3/8] PCI: Create PCI library functions in support of DOE mailboxes.

[Ira Weiny]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:53:29AM +0800, Li, Ming wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/11/2022 4:22 AM, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 

[snip]

> > +
> > +/**
> > + * pci_doe_submit_task() - Submit a task to be processed by the state machine
> > + *
> > + * @doe_mb: DOE mailbox capability to submit to
> > + * @task: task to be queued
> > + *
> > + * Submit a DOE task (request/response) to the DOE mailbox to be processed.
> > + * Returns upon queueing the task object.  If the queue is full this function
> > + * will sleep until there is room in the queue.
> > + *
> > + * task->complete will be called when the state machine is done processing this
> > + * task.
> > + *
> > + * Excess data will be discarded.
> > + *
> > + * RETURNS: 0 when task has been successful queued, -ERRNO on error
> > + */
> > +int pci_doe_submit_task(struct pci_doe_mb *doe_mb, struct pci_doe_task *task)
> > +{
> > +	if (!pci_doe_supports_prot(doe_mb, task->prot.vid, task->prot.type))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	/* DOE requests must be a whole number of DW */
> > +	if (task->request_pl_sz % sizeof(u32))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +again:
> > +	spin_lock(&doe_mb->task_lock);
> > +	if (doe_mb->cur_task) {
> > +		spin_unlock(&doe_mb->task_lock);
> > +		wait_event_interruptible(doe_mb->wq, doe_mb->cur_task == NULL);
> Hi,
> do we need to check the returned value of wait_event_interruptible() here? if the returned value is -ERESTARTSYS, I think we should not try it again, just return.
> 

I'm not 100% sure it is necessary.  However, I don't think there is a point in
trying to continue if a system thread is interrupted.  So yea I think this is
a good idea.

Ira