Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:27:02 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] nfit/ars: Allow root to busy-poll the ARS state machine |
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:23 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > > The ARS implementation implements exponential back-off on the poll > interval to prevent high-frequency access to the DIMM / platform > interface. Depending on when the ARS completes the poll interval may > exceed the completion event by minutes. Allow root to reset the timeout > each time it probes the status. A one-second timeout is still enforced, > but root can otherwise can control the poll interval. > > Reported-by: Erwin Tsaur <erwin.tsaur@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> > --- > drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c > index 934be96dc149..5ec0e19760ea 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c > @@ -1328,6 +1328,12 @@ static ssize_t scrub_show(struct device *dev, > rc = sprintf(buf, "%d%s", acpi_desc->scrub_count, > acpi_desc->scrub_busy > && !acpi_desc->cancel ? "+\n" : "\n"); > + /* Allow an admin to poll the busy state at a higher rate */ > + if (acpi_desc->scrub_busy && !acpi_desc->cancel > + && capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) { > + acpi_desc->scrub_tmo = 1; > + queue_delayed_work(nfit_wq, &acpi_desc->dwork, HZ);
Whoops, just realized this should be mod_delayed_work(). queue_delayed_work() is a nop if the work is already scheduled. v2 inbound.
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