Stewart Smith c3bdd54704 rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
commit 5b8b580630 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: 16b1d26e77 ("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>
2018-02-22 15:42:25 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
…
2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
2018-02-16 20:23:12 +01:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
S
Description
No description provided
Readme
5.7 GiB
Languages
C 96.9%
Assembly 0.9%
Rust 0.6%
Shell 0.6%
Python 0.5%
Other 0.3%