Commit 7532dcfa authored by K. Y. Srinivasan's avatar K. Y. Srinivasan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_post_msg()

commit fdeebcc6 upstream.

Posting messages to the host can fail because of transient resource
related failures. Correctly deal with these failures and increase the
number of attempts to post the message before giving up.

In this version of the patch, I have normalized the error code to
Linux error code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent cfd702c9
......@@ -427,10 +427,21 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
* insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of
* times before giving up.
*/
while (retries < 3) {
while (retries < 10) {
ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
if (ret != HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS)
switch (ret) {
case HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS:
ret = -ENOMEM;
case -ENOMEM:
break;
case HV_STATUS_SUCCESS:
return ret;
default:
pr_err("hv_post_msg() failed; error code:%d\n", ret);
return -EINVAL;
}
retries++;
msleep(100);
}
......
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