Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_post_msg()

commit fdeebcc62279119dbeafbc1a2e39e773839025fd 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: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
K. Y. Srinivasan 2014-08-27 16:25:31 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 71e82363fb
commit 55a5b2114b
1 changed files with 14 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -393,10 +393,21 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
* insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of
* times before giving up.
*/
while (retries < 3) {
ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
if (ret != HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS)
while (retries < 10) {
ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
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);
}