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| author | Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-09-06 10:44:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2017-09-28 07:29:42 +0200 |
| commit | 81b050b564b814585e1515b218783c8ad56913f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 66087098513788356b2f24b03c0ea66120486e49 /drivers/s390 | |
| parent | 60f3eac3a1dc127541817af8042b6711e63dc6e1 (diff) | |
s390/cmf: simplify copy_block
cmf_copy_block tries to ensure data consistency by copying the
channel measurement block twice and comparing the data. This was
needed on very old machines only. Nowadays we guarantee
consistency by copying the data when the channel is idle.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/s390')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c b/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c index 7ed6c865501b..531861d005fd 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c +++ b/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c @@ -280,12 +280,9 @@ void retry_set_schib(struct ccw_device *cdev) static int cmf_copy_block(struct ccw_device *cdev) { - struct subchannel *sch; - void *reference_buf; - void *hw_block; + struct subchannel *sch = to_subchannel(cdev->dev.parent); struct cmb_data *cmb_data; - - sch = to_subchannel(cdev->dev.parent); + void *hw_block; if (cio_update_schib(sch)) return -ENODEV; @@ -300,19 +297,8 @@ static int cmf_copy_block(struct ccw_device *cdev) } cmb_data = cdev->private->cmb; hw_block = cmb_data->hw_block; - if (!memcmp(cmb_data->last_block, hw_block, cmb_data->size)) - /* No need to copy. */ - return 0; - reference_buf = kzalloc(cmb_data->size, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!reference_buf) - return -ENOMEM; - /* Ensure consistency of block copied from hardware. */ - do { - memcpy(cmb_data->last_block, hw_block, cmb_data->size); - memcpy(reference_buf, hw_block, cmb_data->size); - } while (memcmp(cmb_data->last_block, reference_buf, cmb_data->size)); + memcpy(cmb_data->last_block, hw_block, cmb_data->size); cmb_data->last_update = get_tod_clock(); - kfree(reference_buf); return 0; } |