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Stewart Smith authored
commit 5b8b5806 upstream. According to the OPAL docs: skiboot-5.2.5/doc/opal-api/opal-rtc-read-3.txt skiboot-5.2.5/doc/opal-api/opal-rtc-write-4.txt OPAL_HARDWARE may be returned from OPAL_RTC_READ or OPAL_RTC_WRITE and this indicates either a transient or permanent error. Prior to this patch, Linux was not dealing with OPAL_HARDWARE being a permanent error particularly well, in that you could end up in a busy loop. This was not too hard to trigger on an AMI BMC based OpenPOWER machine doing a continuous "ipmitool mc reset cold" to the BMC, the result of that being that we'd get stuck in an infinite loop in opal_get_rtc_time(). We now retry a few times before returning the error higher up the stack. Fixes: 16b1d26e ("rtc/tpo: Driver to support rtc and wakeup on PowerNV platform") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+ Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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