Re: [PATCH 115/206] Staging: hv: Use completion abstraction instruct netvsc_device

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 03:07:00 EST


> - net_device->wait_condition = 0;
> ret = vmbus_sendpacket(device->channel, init_packet,
> sizeof(struct nvsp_message),
> (unsigned long)init_packet,
> @@ -272,10 +272,8 @@ static int netvsc_init_recv_buf(struct hv_device *device)
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> - wait_event_timeout(net_device->channel_init_wait,
> - net_device->wait_condition,
> - msecs_to_jiffies(1000));
> - BUG_ON(net_device->wait_condition == 0);
> + t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&net_device->channel_init_wait, HZ);
> + BUG_ON(t == 0);

I don't think you want a BUG_ON here, but rather fail the
initialization.

Also I think you really should add synchronous versions of
vmbus_sendpacket*, to the vmbus core so that all the synchronous waiting
can be consolidated into a few helpers instead of needing to opencode
it everywhere.

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