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Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:11:06 -0600
From:   Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] ipmi: kill off 'timespec' usage again
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 09:34:27PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 'struct timespec' is getting removed from the kernel. The usage in ipmi
> was fixed before in commit 48862ea2ce86 ("ipmi: Update timespec usage
> to timespec64"), but unfortunately it crept back in.
> 
> The busy looping code can better use ktime_t anyway, so use that
> there to simplify the implementation.

Thanks, this is a big improvement.  I have this queued, but if you
are going to submit this, I can remove it, and:

Reviewed-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>

Do you think this should go in to 5.4?

-corey

> 
> Fixes: cbb19cb1eef0 ("ipmi_si: Convert timespec64 to timespec")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 40 +++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 6b9a0593d2eb..c7cc8538b84a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -265,10 +265,10 @@ static void cleanup_ipmi_si(void);
>  #ifdef DEBUG_TIMING
>  void debug_timestamp(char *msg)
>  {
> -	struct timespec t;
> +	struct timespec64 t;
>  
> -	ktime_get_ts(&t);
> -	pr_debug("**%s: %ld.%9.9ld\n", msg, (long) t.tv_sec, t.tv_nsec);
> +	ktime_get_ts64(&t);
> +	pr_debug("**%s: %lld.%9.9ld\n", msg, t.tv_sec, t.tv_nsec);
>  }
>  #else
>  #define debug_timestamp(x)
> @@ -935,38 +935,25 @@ static void set_run_to_completion(void *send_info, bool i_run_to_completion)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * Use -1 in the nsec value of the busy waiting timespec to tell that
> - * we are spinning in kipmid looking for something and not delaying
> - * between checks
> + * Use -1 as a special constant to tell that we are spinning in kipmid
> + * looking for something and not delaying between checks
>   */
> -static inline void ipmi_si_set_not_busy(struct timespec *ts)
> -{
> -	ts->tv_nsec = -1;
> -}
> -static inline int ipmi_si_is_busy(struct timespec *ts)
> -{
> -	return ts->tv_nsec != -1;
> -}
> -
> +#define IPMI_TIME_NOT_BUSY ns_to_ktime(-1ull)
>  static inline bool ipmi_thread_busy_wait(enum si_sm_result smi_result,
>  					 const struct smi_info *smi_info,
> -					 struct timespec *busy_until)
> +					 ktime_t *busy_until)
>  {
>  	unsigned int max_busy_us = 0;
>  
>  	if (smi_info->si_num < num_max_busy_us)
>  		max_busy_us = kipmid_max_busy_us[smi_info->si_num];
>  	if (max_busy_us == 0 || smi_result != SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY)
> -		ipmi_si_set_not_busy(busy_until);
> -	else if (!ipmi_si_is_busy(busy_until)) {
> -		ktime_get_ts(busy_until);
> -		timespec_add_ns(busy_until, max_busy_us * NSEC_PER_USEC);
> +		*busy_until = IPMI_TIME_NOT_BUSY;
> +	else if (*busy_until == IPMI_TIME_NOT_BUSY) {
> +		*busy_until = ktime_get() + max_busy_us * NSEC_PER_USEC;
>  	} else {
> -		struct timespec now;
> -
> -		ktime_get_ts(&now);
> -		if (unlikely(timespec_compare(&now, busy_until) > 0)) {
> -			ipmi_si_set_not_busy(busy_until);
> +		if (unlikely(ktime_get() > *busy_until)) {
> +			*busy_until = IPMI_TIME_NOT_BUSY;
>  			return false;
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -988,9 +975,8 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
>  	struct smi_info *smi_info = data;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	enum si_sm_result smi_result;
> -	struct timespec busy_until = { 0, 0 };
> +	ktime_t busy_until = IPMI_TIME_NOT_BUSY;
>  
> -	ipmi_si_set_not_busy(&busy_until);
>  	set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
>  	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>  		int busy_wait;
> -- 
> 2.20.0
>