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Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:45:55 +0200
From:   Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To:     Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>
Cc:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: aardvark: Don't rely on jiffies while holding
 spinlock
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:55:02 +0200
Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt> wrote:

> advk_pcie_wait_pio() can be called while holding a spinlock (from
> pci_bus_read_config_dword()), then depends on jiffies in order to
> timeout while polling on PIO state registers. In the case the PIO
> transaction failed, the timeout will never happen and will also cause
> the cpu to stall.
> 
> This decrements a variable and wait instead of using jiffies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

Thanks!

Thomas
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