dpaa2-eth: Avoid unbounded while loops

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Throughout the driver there are several places where we wait
indefinitely for DPIO portal commands to be executed, while
the portal returns a busy response code.

Even though in theory we are guaranteed the portals become
available eventually, in practice the QBMan hardware module
may become unresponsive in various corner cases.

Make sure we can never get stuck in an infinite while loop
by adding a retry counter for all portal commands.

Signed-off-by: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Ioana Radulescu 2019-10-07 14:38:28 +03:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.h

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