RE: [PATCH] Retry infinitely for hypercall

2017-01-04 Thread Long Li
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpen...@oracle.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:48 PM > To: Long Li > Cc: KY Srinivasan ; Haiyang Zhang > ; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PAT

RE: [PATCH] Retry infinitely for hypercall

2017-01-04 Thread Long Li
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:51 PM > To: Long Li > Cc: KY Srinivasan ; Haiyang Zhang > ; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Retry infinitely f

Re: [PATCH] Retry infinitely for hypercall

2017-01-04 Thread Dan Carpenter
Fix the subsystem prefix in the subject. On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:39:31PM -0800, Long Li wrote: > From: Long Li > > Hyper-v host guarantees that a hypercall will succeed. Retry infinitely to > avoid returning transient failures to upper layer. > > Signed-off-by: Long Li > --- > drivers/hv/

Re: [PATCH] Retry infinitely for hypercall

2017-01-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:39:31PM -0800, Long Li wrote: > From: Long Li > > Hyper-v host guarantees that a hypercall will succeed. Retry infinitely to > avoid returning transient failures to upper layer. Please wrap your changelog at the proper column. And what happens when the hypercall does