[PATCH v2 2/3] hv: vmbus_post_msg: retry the hypercall on some transient errors

[Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID on Hyper-V 2008 R2 when keeping running
"rmmod hv_netvsc; modprobe hv_netvsc; rmmod hv_utils; modprobe hv_utils"
in a Linux guest. Looks the host has some kind of throttling mechanism if
some kinds of hypercalls are sent too frequently.
Without the patch, the driver can occasionally fail to load.

Also let's retry HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY, though we didn't get it
before.

Removed 'case -ENOMEM', since the hypervisor doesn't return this.

CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

v2:
  updated the subject and changelog
  on HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID: ret =  -EAGAIN;
  added HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY
  removed unreachable -ENOMEM
  changed the delay from 100ms to 1000ms
  
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h |  2 ++
 drivers/hv/connection.c            | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h
index 90c458e..ce6068d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h
@@ -225,6 +225,8 @@
 #define HV_STATUS_INVALID_HYPERCALL_CODE	2
 #define HV_STATUS_INVALID_HYPERCALL_INPUT	3
 #define HV_STATUS_INVALID_ALIGNMENT		4
+#define HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY		11
+#define HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID		18
 #define HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS		19
 
 typedef struct _HV_REFERENCE_TSC_PAGE {
diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index c4acd1c..af2388f 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -440,9 +440,16 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
 		ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
 
 		switch (ret) {
+		case HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID:
+			/*
+			 * We could get this if we send messages too
+			 * frequently.
+			 */
+			ret = -EAGAIN;
+			break;
+		case HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY:
 		case HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS:
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
-		case -ENOMEM:
 			break;
 		case HV_STATUS_SUCCESS:
 			return ret;
@@ -452,7 +459,7 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
 		}
 
 		retries++;
-		msleep(100);
+		msleep(1000);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.9.1

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