Re: [PATCH] gpio: virtio: remove timeout

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Dec 20 2021 - 23:26:36 EST


On 20-12-21, 14:06, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
> The driver imposes an arbitrary one second timeout on virtio requests,
> but the specification doesn't prevent the virtio device from taking
> longer to process requests, so remove this timeout to support all
> systems and device implementations.
>
> Fixes: 3a29355a22c0275fe86 ("gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver")
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
> index 84f96b78f32a..9f4941bc5760 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
> @@ -100,11 +100,7 @@ static int _virtio_gpio_req(struct virtio_gpio *vgpio, u16 type, u16 gpio,
> virtqueue_kick(vgpio->request_vq);
> mutex_unlock(&vgpio->lock);
>
> - if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&line->completion, HZ)) {
> - dev_err(dev, "GPIO operation timed out\n");
> - ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> - goto out;
> - }
> + wait_for_completion(&line->completion);
>
> if (unlikely(res->status != VIRTIO_GPIO_STATUS_OK)) {
> dev_err(dev, "GPIO request failed: %d\n", gpio);

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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