OPAL can only manage one flash access at a time and will return an
OPAL_BUSY error for each concurrent access to the flash. The simplest
way to prevent this from happening is with a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com>
---
This is to address https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/issues/80


 drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c 
b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
index a9a20c00687c..7b41af06f4fe 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 struct powernv_flash {
        struct mtd_info mtd;
+       struct mutex lock;
        u32 id;
 };
 
@@ -59,12 +60,15 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, 
enum flash_op op,
        dev_dbg(dev, "%s(op=%d, offset=0x%llx, len=%zu)\n",
                        __func__, op, offset, len);
 
+       mutex_lock(&info->lock);
+
        token = opal_async_get_token_interruptible();
        if (token < 0) {
                if (token != -ERESTARTSYS)
                        dev_err(dev, "Failed to get an async token\n");
 
-               return token;
+               rc = token;
+               goto out;
        }
 
        switch (op) {
@@ -79,18 +83,21 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, 
enum flash_op op,
                break;
        default:
                WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
-               return -EIO;
+               rc = -EIO;
+               goto out;
        }
 
        if (rc != OPAL_ASYNC_COMPLETION) {
                dev_err(dev, "opal_flash_async_op(op=%d) failed (rc %d)\n",
                                op, rc);
                opal_async_release_token(token);
-               return -EIO;
+               rc = -EIO;
+               goto out;
        }
 
        rc = opal_async_wait_response(token, &msg);
        opal_async_release_token(token);
+       mutex_unlock(&info->lock);
        if (rc) {
                dev_err(dev, "opal async wait failed (rc %d)\n", rc);
                return -EIO;
@@ -106,6 +113,9 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, 
enum flash_op op,
        }
 
        return rc;
+out:
+       mutex_unlock(&info->lock);
+       return rc;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -237,6 +247,8 @@ static int powernv_flash_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        if (ret)
                goto out;
 
+       mutex_init(&data->lock);
+
        dev_set_drvdata(dev, data);
 
        /*
-- 
2.13.0

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