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Commit e0332629 authored by Harald Freudenberger's avatar Harald Freudenberger Committed by Vasily Gorbik
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s390/ap/zcrypt: revisit ap and zcrypt error handling



Revisit the ap queue error handling: Based on discussions and
evaluatios with the firmware folk here is now a rework of the response
code handling for all the AP instructions. The idea is to distinguish
between failures because of some kind of invalid request where a retry
does not make any sense and a failure where another attempt to send
the very same request may succeed. The first case is handled by
returning EINVAL to the userspace application. The second case results
in retries within the zcrypt API controlled by a per message retry
counter.

Revisit the zcrpyt error handling: Similar here, based on discussions
with the firmware people here comes a rework of the handling of all
the reply codes.  Main point here is that there are only very few
cases left, where a zcrypt device queue is switched to offline. It
should never be the case that an AP reply message is 'unknown' to the
device driver as it indicates a total mismatch between device driver
and crypto card firmware. In all other cases, the code distinguishes
between failure because of invalid message (see above - EINVAL) or
failures of the infrastructure (see above - EAGAIN).

Signed-off-by: default avatarHarald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
parent 5caa2af9
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