Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests v2 6/6] lib: s390x: smp: Remove smp_sigp_retry

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On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 18:38 +0100, Eric Farman wrote:
> The SIGP instruction presents a CC0 when an order is accepted,
> though the work for the order may be performed asynchronously.
> While any such work is outstanding, nearly any other SIGP order
> sent to the same CPU will be returned with a CC2.
> 
> Currently, there are two library functions that perform a SIGP,
> one which retries a SIGP that gets a CC2, and one which doesn't.
> In practice, the users of this functionality want the CC2 to be
> handled by the library itself, rather than determine whether it
> needs to retry the request or not.
> 
> To avoid confusion, let's convert the smp_sigp() routine to
> perform the sigp_retry() logic, and then convert any users of
> smp_sigp_retry() to smp_sigp(). This of course means that the
> external _retry() interface can be removed for simplicity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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