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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)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:28:23 +0000 (10:28 -0500)
commitefe28dcf96e1f38864e7102e31a598336e48ea3e
tree28a02a9e46ef0a92b87f5b86bd7e04e6d9d8d9ed
parentb0e2ce066eac73903e0b47faef5cdc2267dc7039
rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops

[ Upstream commit 5b8b58063029f02da573120ef4dc9079822e3cda ]

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: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c