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rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
authorStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 01:50:16 +0000 (11:50 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:44:59 +0000 (15:44 +0100)
commit99863c1bfdbf08d9a9001ac2c7c4d4e66fcdab6d
tree9db9d3582e1db37786afd41ed093eb860f81c186
parent0bb10b1679e2b5c817ad11354345c1d73121997b
rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops

commit 5b8b58063029f02da573120ef4dc9079822e3cda upstream.

According to the OPAL docs:
  skiboot-5.2.5/doc/opal-api/opal-rtc-read-3.txt
  skiboot-5.2.5/doc/opal-api/opal-rtc-write-4.txt

OPAL_HARDWARE may be returned from OPAL_RTC_READ or OPAL_RTC_WRITE and
this indicates either a transient or permanent error.

Prior to this patch, Linux was not dealing with OPAL_HARDWARE being a
permanent error particularly well, in that you could end up in a busy
loop.

This was not too hard to trigger on an AMI BMC based OpenPOWER machine
doing a continuous "ipmitool mc reset cold" to the BMC, the result of
that being that we'd get stuck in an infinite loop in
opal_get_rtc_time().

We now retry a few times before returning the error higher up the
stack.

Fixes: 16b1d26e77b1 ("rtc/tpo: Driver to support rtc and wakeup on PowerNV platform")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c