From 4c418ba9695a24917a1fcfa48f7db3fd76337eb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Doe, YiCheng" Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:00:21 -0600 Subject: ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems This patch fixes an issue in OpenIPMI module where sometimes an ABORT command is sent after sending an IPMI request to BMC causing the IPMI request to fail. Signed-off-by: YiCheng Doe Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Tom Mingarelli Tested-by: Andy Cress Tested-by: Mika Lansirine Tested-by: Brian De Wolf Cc: Jean Michel Audet Cc: Jozef Sudelsky Acked-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/char') diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 7855f9f45b8..62787e30d50 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -900,6 +900,14 @@ static void sender(void *send_info, printk("**Enqueue: %d.%9.9d\n", t.tv_sec, t.tv_usec); #endif + /* + * last_timeout_jiffies is updated here to avoid + * smi_timeout() handler passing very large time_diff + * value to smi_event_handler() that causes + * the send command to abort. + */ + smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies; + mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); if (smi_info->thread) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2