Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't timeout during the initial connection with host
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:59:58 +0000 (11:59 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:27:34 +0000 (08:27 -0800)
When the guest attempts to connect with the host when there may already be a
connection with the host (as would be the case during the kdump/kexec path),
it is difficult to guarantee timely response from the host. Starting with
WS2012 R2, the host supports this ability to re-connect with the host
(explicitly to support kexec). Prior to responding to the guest, the host
needs to ensure that device states based on the previous connection to
the host have been properly torn down. This may introduce unbounded delays.
To deal with this issue, don't do a timed wait during the initial connect
with the host.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/connection.c

index 855bbda9964d9262ec2d2ab0d61d680ce8dfc233..f2d7bf90c9fe5b319d85bf1372a1c0cec36aa91c 100644 (file)
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ static int vmbus_negotiate_version(struct vmbus_channel_msginfo *msginfo,
        int ret = 0;
        struct vmbus_channel_initiate_contact *msg;
        unsigned long flags;
-       int t;
 
        init_completion(&msginfo->waitevent);
 
@@ -102,15 +101,7 @@ static int vmbus_negotiate_version(struct vmbus_channel_msginfo *msginfo,
        }
 
        /* Wait for the connection response */
-       t =  wait_for_completion_timeout(&msginfo->waitevent, 5*HZ);
-       if (t == 0) {
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&vmbus_connection.channelmsg_lock,
-                               flags);
-               list_del(&msginfo->msglistentry);
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vmbus_connection.channelmsg_lock,
-                                       flags);
-               return -ETIMEDOUT;
-       }
+       wait_for_completion(&msginfo->waitevent);
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&vmbus_connection.channelmsg_lock, flags);
        list_del(&msginfo->msglistentry);