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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c46
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index b7efd3c1a882..9c4069151955 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ struct smi_info {
/* The timer for this si. */
struct timer_list si_timer;
+ /* This flag is set, if the timer is running (timer_pending() isn't enough) */
+ bool timer_running;
+
/* The time (in jiffies) the last timeout occurred at. */
unsigned long last_timeout_jiffies;
@@ -434,6 +437,13 @@ static void start_clear_flags(struct smi_info *smi_info)
smi_info->si_state = SI_CLEARING_FLAGS;
}
+static void smi_mod_timer(struct smi_info *smi_info, unsigned long new_val)
+{
+ smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
+ mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, new_val);
+ smi_info->timer_running = true;
+}
+
/*
* When we have a situtaion where we run out of memory and cannot
* allocate messages, we just leave them in the BMC and run the system
@@ -446,8 +456,7 @@ static inline void disable_si_irq(struct smi_info *smi_info)
start_disable_irq(smi_info);
smi_info->interrupt_disabled = 1;
if (!atomic_read(&smi_info->stop_operation))
- mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer,
- jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
+ smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
}
}
@@ -907,15 +916,7 @@ static void sender(void *send_info,
list_add_tail(&msg->link, &smi_info->xmit_msgs);
if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) {
- /*
- * last_timeout_jiffies is updated here to avoid
- * smi_timeout() handler passing very large time_diff
- * value to smi_event_handler() that causes
- * the send command to abort.
- */
- smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
-
- mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
+ smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
if (smi_info->thread)
wake_up_process(smi_info->thread);
@@ -1004,6 +1005,17 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
spin_lock_irqsave(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
smi_result = smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * If the driver is doing something, there is a possible
+ * race with the timer. If the timer handler see idle,
+ * and the thread here sees something else, the timer
+ * handler won't restart the timer even though it is
+ * required. So start it here if necessary.
+ */
+ if (smi_result != SI_SM_IDLE && !smi_info->timer_running)
+ smi_mod_timer(smi_info, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
+
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
busy_wait = ipmi_thread_busy_wait(smi_result, smi_info,
&busy_until);
@@ -1073,10 +1085,6 @@ static void smi_timeout(unsigned long data)
* SI_USEC_PER_JIFFY);
smi_result = smi_event_handler(smi_info, time_diff);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
-
- smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies_now;
-
if ((smi_info->irq) && (!smi_info->interrupt_disabled)) {
/* Running with interrupts, only do long timeouts. */
timeout = jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES;
@@ -1098,7 +1106,10 @@ static void smi_timeout(unsigned long data)
do_mod_timer:
if (smi_result != SI_SM_IDLE)
- mod_timer(&(smi_info->si_timer), timeout);
+ smi_mod_timer(smi_info, timeout);
+ else
+ smi_info->timer_running = false;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(smi_info->si_lock), flags);
}
static irqreturn_t si_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
@@ -1146,8 +1157,7 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void *send_info,
/* Set up the timer that drives the interface. */
setup_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, smi_timeout, (long)new_smi);
- new_smi->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
- mod_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
+ smi_mod_timer(new_smi, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
/*
* Check if the user forcefully enabled the daemon.