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ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems

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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 <yicheng.doe@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Tom Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Tested-by: Andy Cress <andy.cress@us.kontron.com>
Tested-by: Mika Lansirine <Mika.Lansirinne@stonesoft.com>
Tested-by: Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>
Cc: Jean Michel Audet <Jean-Michel.Audet@ca.Kontron.com>
Cc: Jozef Sudelsky <jozef.sudolsky@elbiahosting.sk>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Doe, YiCheng 2011-03-10 14:00:21 -06:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4afcc10a65
commit 4c418ba969
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drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
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@ -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)