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scsi: mpt3sas: Perform additional retries if doorbell read returns 0
authorRanjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:00:19 +0000 (14:30 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:22:51 +0000 (12:22 +0200)
commit8f4edcd655348beb97a21bb91e23c18126fe3855
treee6100eaa757fac38a6cad91e133ce4408d8817ac
parent58388f2958f6e9a7bd9d4ed6f29f722815b5cc52
scsi: mpt3sas: Perform additional retries if doorbell read returns 0

commit 4ca10f3e31745d35249a727ecd108eb58f0a8c5e upstream.

The driver retries certain register reads 3 times if the returned value is
0. This was done because the controller could return 0 for certain
registers if other registers were being accessed concurrently by the BMC.

In certain systems with increased BMC interactions, the register values
returned can be 0 for longer than 3 retries. Change the retry count from 3
to 30 for the affected registers to prevent problems with out-of-band
management.

Fixes: b899202901a8 ("scsi: mpt3sas: Add separate function for aero doorbell reads")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ranjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230829090020.5417-2-ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h