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Re: [PATCH 2/2] cxl: Set VPD timeout to avoid access failures

From: Andrew Donnellan <hidden>
Date: 2016-11-22 00:32:28
Also in: linux-pci

On 22/11/16 08:10, Matthew R. Ochs wrote:
Some IBM CXL devices can take up to ~120ms to complete a VPD access
Which devices?
transaction when under heavy load. With an existing default VPD timeout
of 50ms, reads/writes can fail despite there not being an issue with the
underlying hardware.

To avoid these false failures, increase the VPD wait timeout for certain
CXL devices to a value that allows appropriate VPD access delay when faced
with a worst-case scenario.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <redacted>
Contingent on Bjorn applying patch 1, and with comment below:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <redacted>
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---
 drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
index e96be9c..56a67cf 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
@@ -1675,6 +1675,10 @@ bool cxl_slot_is_supported(struct pci_dev *dev, int flags)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cxl_slot_is_supported);

+static bool cxl_pci_is_slow_vpd_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	return dev->device == 0x0601;
Comment with device name.
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+}

 static int cxl_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 {
@@ -1692,6 +1696,9 @@ static int cxl_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}

+	if (cxl_pci_is_slow_vpd_device(dev))
+		pci_set_vpd_timeout(dev, msecs_to_jiffies(125));
+
 	if (cxl_verbose)
 		dump_cxl_config_space(dev);
-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited
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