mtd: fix timeout in M25P80 driver

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Fri May 8 08:59:01 EDT 2009


Gitweb:     http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cd1a6de7d4a492bf3405a6c070075a4cb8c90262
Commit:     cd1a6de7d4a492bf3405a6c070075a4cb8c90262
Parent:     3f33b0aaac4e208579fe5aa2964857d4e9ba10c5
Author:     Peter Horton <zero at colonel-panic.org>
AuthorDate: Fri May 8 13:51:53 2009 +0100
Committer:  David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
CommitDate: Fri May 8 13:51:53 2009 +0100

    mtd: fix timeout in M25P80 driver
    
    Extend erase timeout in M25P80 SPI Flash driver.
    
    The M25P80 drivers fails erasing sectors on a M25P128 because the ready
    wait timeout is too short. Change the timeout from a simple loop count to a
    suitable number of seconds.
    
    Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero at colonel-panic.org>
    Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
index dfadef8..cc6369e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 #define	SR_SRWD			0x80	/* SR write protect */
 
 /* Define max times to check status register before we give up. */
-#define	MAX_READY_WAIT_COUNT	1000000
+#define	MAX_READY_WAIT_JIFFIES	(10 * HZ)	/* eg. M25P128 specs 6s max sector erase */
 #define	CMD_SIZE		4
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_M25PXX_USE_FAST_READ
@@ -139,20 +139,20 @@ static inline int write_enable(struct m25p *flash)
  */
 static int wait_till_ready(struct m25p *flash)
 {
-	int count;
+	unsigned long deadline;
 	int sr;
 
-	/* one chip guarantees max 5 msec wait here after page writes,
-	 * but potentially three seconds (!) after page erase.
-	 */
-	for (count = 0; count < MAX_READY_WAIT_COUNT; count++) {
+	deadline = jiffies + MAX_READY_WAIT_JIFFIES;
+
+	do {
 		if ((sr = read_sr(flash)) < 0)
 			break;
 		else if (!(sr & SR_WIP))
 			return 0;
 
-		/* REVISIT sometimes sleeping would be best */
-	}
+		cond_resched();
+
+	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline));
 
 	return 1;
 }



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