Greg Kurz
6ccb4ac2bf
There's a bug in skiboot that causes the OPAL_XIVE_ALLOCATE_IRQ call
to return the 32-bit value 0xffffffff when OPAL has run out of IRQs.
Unfortunatelty, OPAL return values are signed 64-bit entities and
errors are supposed to be negative. If that happens, the linux code
confusingly treats 0xffffffff as a valid IRQ number and panics at some
point.
A fix was recently merged in skiboot:
e97391ae2bb5 ("xive: fix return value of opal_xive_allocate_irq()")
but we need a workaround anyway to support older skiboots already
in the field.
Internally convert 0xffffffff to OPAL_RESOURCE which is the usual error
returned upon resource exhaustion.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821713818.1985334.14123187368108582810.stgit@bahia.lan
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