Re: [RFT patch, regression fix] firewire: deadline for PHY configtransmission

[Stefan Richter]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> I briefly tested the patch with 7 different working controllers and the
> packet callback seems to complete() always before the arbitrarily
> chosen timeout of 10ms plus rounding.
...
>  void fw_send_phy_config(struct fw_card *card,
>  			int node_id, int generation, int gap_count)
>  {
> -	struct fw_phy_packet p;
> +	struct fw_phy_packet *p;
> +	long timeout = DIV_ROUND_UP(HZ, 100);
>  	u32 data = PHY_IDENTIFIER(PHY_PACKET_CONFIG) |
...
> +	card->driver->send_request(card, &p->packet);
> +	timeout = wait_for_completion_timeout(&p->done, timeout);
> +	kref_put(&p->kref, phy_packet_release);
>  
> -	card->driver->send_request(card, &p.packet);
> -	wait_for_completion(&p.done);
> +	/* will leak p if the callback is never executed */
> +	WARN_ON(timeout == 0);
>  }

The warning triggered on a VT6307 after cold boot.  I will retry later 
today with HZ/10.
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