nfit, address-range-scrub: rework and simplify ARS state machine
ARS is an operation that can take 10s to 100s of seconds to find media errors that should rarely be present. If the platform crashes due to media errors in persistent memory, the expectation is that the BIOS will report those known errors in a 'short' ARS request. A 'short' ARS request asks platform firmware to return an ARS payload with all known errors, but without issuing a 'long' scrub. At driver init a short request is issued to all PMEM ranges before registering regions. Then, in the background, a long ARS is scheduled for each region. The ARS implementation is simplified to centralize ARS completion work in the ars_complete() helper. The timeout is removed since there is no facility to cancel ARS, and this otherwise arranges for system init to never be blocked waiting for a 'long' ARS. The ars_state flags are used to coordinate ARS requests from driver init, ARS requests from userspace, and ARS requests in response to media error notifications. Given that there is no notification of ARS completion the implementation still needs to poll. It backs off exponentially to a maximum poll period of 30 minutes. Suggested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Co-developed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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