From 34dd25de9fe3f60bfdb31b473bf04b28262d0896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:49:31 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry loops This is the start of an effort to tidy up and standardise all the delays. Existing loops have a range of delay/sleep periods from 1ms to 20ms, and some have no delay. They all loop forever except rtc, which times out after 10 retries, and that uses 10ms delays. So use 10ms as our standard delay. The OPAL maintainer agrees 10ms is a reasonable starting point. The idea is to use the same recipe everywhere, once this is proven to work then it will be documented as an OPAL API standard. Then both firmware and OS can agree, and if a particular call needs something else, then that can be documented with reasoning. This is not the end-all of this effort, it's just a relatively easy change that fixes some existing high latency delays. There should be provision for standardising timeouts and/or interruptible loops where possible, so non-fatal firmware errors don't cause hangs. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h index 7159e1a6a61a..03e1a920491e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ /* We calculate number of sg entries based on PAGE_SIZE */ #define SG_ENTRIES_PER_NODE ((PAGE_SIZE - 16) / sizeof(struct opal_sg_entry)) +/* Default time to sleep or delay between OPAL_BUSY/OPAL_BUSY_EVENT loops */ +#define OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS 10 + /* /sys/firmware/opal */ extern struct kobject *opal_kobj; -- 2.45.2