On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 11:53 -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> This solves a problem observed in kexec'ed kernel where 200ms timeout is
> too short and bootconsole fails to initialize. Console did eventually
> become workable but much later into the boot process.
>
> Observed timeout was around 260ms, but I decided to make it a little bigger
> for more reliability.
>
> This has been tested on Power7 machine with Petitboot as a primary
> bootloader and PowerNV firmware.
Thanks !
I've been carrying a patch like that in my test stuff, the only reason I
hadn't merged it yet was that I though there might be a problem under
the hood, such as us maybe not actually polling the FSP fast enough or
something, but so far it looks like it's just slow to respond.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <surove...@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
> index 3396eb9..ac27671 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvsi_lib.c
> @@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ void hvsilib_establish(struct hvsi_priv *pv)
>
> pr_devel("HVSI@%x: ... waiting handshake\n", pv->termno);
>
> - /* Try for up to 200s */
> - for (timeout = 0; timeout < 20; timeout++) {
> + /* Try for up to 400ms */
> + for (timeout = 0; timeout < 40; timeout++) {
> if (pv->established)
> goto established;
> if (!hvsi_get_packet(pv))
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