Hi Nicholas, I would greatly appreciate a changelog and at least the cover letter because it is difficult to grasp how this relates to the previous patches you sent to the RTC mailing list. On 10/04/2018 21:49:32+1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > The OPAL RTC driver does not sleep in case it gets OPAL_BUSY or > OPAL_BUSY_EVENT from firmware, which causes large scheduling > latencies, up to 50 seconds have been observed here when RTC stops > responding (BMC reboot can do it). > > Fix this by converting it to the standard form OPAL_BUSY loop that > sleeps. > > Fixes 628daa8d5abfd ("powerpc/powernv: Add RTC and NVRAM support plus RTAS fallbacks" > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-rtc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c | 8 +++-- > drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c | 37 ++++++++++++++--------- >From what I understand, the changes in those files are fairly independent, they should probably be separated to ease merging. > 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c > index f8868864f373..aa2a5139462e 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c > @@ -48,10 +48,12 @@ unsigned long __init opal_get_boot_time(void) > > while (rc == OPAL_BUSY || rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > rc = opal_rtc_read(&__y_m_d, &__h_m_s_ms); > - if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) > + if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > + mdelay(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > opal_poll_events(NULL); > - else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) > - mdelay(10); > + } else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) { > + mdelay(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > + } > } > if (rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) > return 0; > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c > index 304e891e35fc..60f2250fd96b 100644 > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c > @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static void tm_to_opal(struct rtc_time *tm, u32 *y_m_d, u64 *h_m_s_ms) > > static int opal_get_rtc_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) > { > - long rc = OPAL_BUSY; > + s64 rc = OPAL_BUSY; > int retries = 10; > u32 y_m_d; > u64 h_m_s_ms; > @@ -66,13 +66,17 @@ static int opal_get_rtc_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) > > while (rc == OPAL_BUSY || rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > rc = opal_rtc_read(&__y_m_d, &__h_m_s_ms); > - if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) > + if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > opal_poll_events(NULL); > - else if (retries-- && (rc == OPAL_HARDWARE > - || rc == OPAL_INTERNAL_ERROR)) > - msleep(10); > - else if (rc != OPAL_BUSY && rc != OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) > - break; > + } else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) { > + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > + } else if (rc == OPAL_HARDWARE || rc == OPAL_INTERNAL_ERROR) { > + if (retries--) { > + msleep(10); /* Wait 10ms before retry */ > + rc = OPAL_BUSY; /* go around again */ > + } > + } > } > > if (rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) > @@ -87,21 +91,26 @@ static int opal_get_rtc_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) > > static int opal_set_rtc_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) > { > - long rc = OPAL_BUSY; > + s64 rc = OPAL_BUSY; > int retries = 10; > u32 y_m_d = 0; > u64 h_m_s_ms = 0; > > tm_to_opal(tm, &y_m_d, &h_m_s_ms); > + > while (rc == OPAL_BUSY || rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > rc = opal_rtc_write(y_m_d, h_m_s_ms); > - if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) > + if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { > + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > opal_poll_events(NULL); > - else if (retries-- && (rc == OPAL_HARDWARE > - || rc == OPAL_INTERNAL_ERROR)) > - msleep(10); > - else if (rc != OPAL_BUSY && rc != OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) > - break; > + } else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) { > + msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS); > + } else if (rc == OPAL_HARDWARE || rc == OPAL_INTERNAL_ERROR) { > + if (retries--) { > + msleep(10); /* Wait 10ms before retry */ > + rc = OPAL_BUSY; /* go around again */ > + } > + } > } > > return rc == OPAL_SUCCESS ? 0 : -EIO; > -- > 2.17.0 > -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com