powerpc/rtas: handle extended delays safely in early boot
Some code that runs early in boot calls RTAS functions that can return -2 or 990x statuses, which mean the caller should retry. An example is pSeries_cmo_feature_init(), which invokes ibm,get-system-parameter but treats these benign statuses as errors instead of retrying. pSeries_cmo_feature_init() and similar code should be made to retry until they succeed or receive a real error, using the usual pattern: do { rc = rtas_call(token, etc...); } while (rtas_busy_delay(rc)); But rtas_busy_delay() will perform a timed sleep on any 990x status. This isn't safe so early in boot, before the CPU scheduler and timer subsystem have initialized. The -2 RTAS status is much more likely to occur during single-threaded boot than 990x in practice, at least on PowerVM. This is because -2 usually means that RTAS made progress but exhausted its self-imposed timeslice, while 990x is associated with concurrent requests from the OS causing internal contention. Regardless, according to the language in PAPR, the OS should be prepared to handle either type of status at any time. Add a fallback path to rtas_busy_delay() to handle this as safely as possible, performing a small delay on 990x. Include a counter to detect retry loops that aren't making progress and bail out. Add __ref to rtas_busy_delay() since it now conditionally calls an __init function. This was found by inspection and I'm not aware of any real failures. However, the implementation of rtas_busy_delay() before commit 38f7b706 ("powerpc/rtas: rtas_busy_delay() improvements") was not susceptible to this problem, so let's treat this as a regression. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: 38f7b706 ("powerpc/rtas: rtas_busy_delay() improvements") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125-b4-powerpc-rtas-queue-v3-1-26929c8cce78@linux.ibm.com
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