On 8/30/2023 6:14 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> It's possible for the polling loop in busy_loop() to get scheduled away
> for a long time.
>
> status = ipc_read_status(scu);
> <long time scheduled away>
> if (!(status & IPC_STATUS_BUSY))
>
> If this happens, then the status bit could change and this function
> would never test it again after checking the jiffies against the timeout
> limit. Polling code should check the condition one more time after the
> timeout in case this happens.
I think it is not checking the condition, but reading the status one more
time to reflect the latest status.
>
> The read_poll_timeout() helper implements this logic, and is shorter, so
> simply use that helper here.
>
> Cc: Prashant Malani <pmalani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: e7b7ab3847c9 ("platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Sleeping is fine when polling")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Otherwise code looks fine to me.
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c
> index 6851d10d6582..5a37becc65aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> +#include <linux/iopoll.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
>
> @@ -231,19 +232,15 @@ static inline u32 ipc_data_readl(struct intel_scu_ipc_dev *scu, u32 offset)
> /* Wait till scu status is busy */
> static inline int busy_loop(struct intel_scu_ipc_dev *scu)
> {
> - unsigned long end = jiffies + IPC_TIMEOUT;
> -
> - do {
> - u32 status;
> -
> - status = ipc_read_status(scu);
> - if (!(status & IPC_STATUS_BUSY))
> - return (status & IPC_STATUS_ERR) ? -EIO : 0;
> + u8 status;
> + int err;
>
> - usleep_range(50, 100);
> - } while (time_before(jiffies, end));
> + err = read_poll_timeout(ipc_read_status, status, !(status & IPC_STATUS_BUSY),
> + 100, jiffies_to_usecs(IPC_TIMEOUT), false, scu);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
>
> - return -ETIMEDOUT;
> + return (status & IPC_STATUS_ERR) ? -EIO : 0;
> }
>
> /* Wait till ipc ioc interrupt is received or timeout in 10 HZ */
--
Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer
