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Davidlohr Bueso
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This adds support for handling background operations, as defined in the CXL 3.0 spec. Commands that can take too long (over ~2 seconds) can run in the background asynchronously (to the hardware). The driver will deal with such commands synchronously, blocking all other incoming commands for a specified period of time, allowing time-slicing the command such that the caller can send incremental requests to avoid monopolizing the driver/device. Any out of sync (timeout) between the driver and hardware is just disregarded as an invalid state until the next successful submission. Such timeouts are considered a rare occurrence, either a real device problem or a driver issue that needs to reduce the size of the background operation to fit the timeout. On devices where mbox interrupts are supported, this will still use a poller that will wakeup in the specified wait intervals. The irq handler will simply awake the blocked cmd, which is also safe vs a task that is either waking (timing out) or already awoken. Similarly any irq setup error during the probing falls back to polling, thus avoids unnecessarily erroring out. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523170927.20685-5-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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