4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 3b8070335f751aac9f1526ae2e012e6f5b8b0f21 upstream.
The OPAL NVRAM driver does not sleep in case it gets OPAL_BUSY or
OPAL_BUSY_EVENT from firmware, which causes large scheduling
latencies, and various lockup errors to trigger (again, BMC reboot
can cause it).
Fix this by converting it to the standard form OPAL_BUSY loop that
sleeps.
Fixes: 628daa8d5abf ("powerpc/powernv: Add RTC and NVRAM support plus RTAS fallbacks")
Depends-on: 34dd25de9fe3 ("powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry loops")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.2+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#define DEBUG
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
@@ -56,8 +57,12 @@ static ssize_t opal_nvram_write(char *bu
while (rc == OPAL_BUSY || rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) {
rc = opal_write_nvram(__pa(buf), count, off);
- if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT)
+ if (rc == OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) {
+ msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS);
opal_poll_events(NULL);
+ } else if (rc == OPAL_BUSY) {
+ msleep(OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS);
+ }
}
if (rc)