[PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: improve wait-till-ready timeout loop

[Huang Shijie]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:32:03AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> There are a few small issues with the timeout loop in
> spi_nor_wait_till_ready():
> 
>  * The first operation should not be a reschedule; we should check the
>    status register at least once to see if we're complete!
> 
>  * We should check the status register one last time after declaring the
>    deadline has passed, to prevent a premature timeout erro (this is
>    theoretically possible if we sleep for a long time after the previous
>    status register check).
> 
>  * Add an error message, so it's obvious if we ever hit a timeout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> index 5e3a1d363895..d0dcaa1372ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> @@ -202,19 +202,24 @@ static int spi_nor_ready(struct spi_nor *nor)
>  static int spi_nor_wait_till_ready(struct spi_nor *nor)
>  {
>  	unsigned long deadline;
> -	int ret;
> +	int timeout = 0, ret;
>  
>  	deadline = jiffies + MAX_READY_WAIT_JIFFIES;
>  
> -	do {
> -		cond_resched();
> +	while (!timeout) {
> +		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline))
> +			timeout = 1;
>  
>  		ret = spi_nor_ready(nor);
>  		if (ret < 0)
>  			return ret;
>  		if (ret)
>  			return 0;
> -	} while (!time_after_eq(jiffies, deadline));
> +
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}
> +
> +	dev_err(nor->dev, "flash operation timed out\n");
>  
>  	return -ETIMEDOUT;
>  }
look good.

Acked-by: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang at intel.com>