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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 01/16] spi: dw: Add Tx/Rx finish wait methods to the MID DMA
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:52:35PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:13:40PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > > Changelog v4:
> > > - Get back ndelay() method to wait for an SPI transfer completion.
> > > spi_delay_exec() isn't suitable for the atomic context.

> > OTOH we may teach spi_delay_exec() to perform atomic sleeps.

> Please, see it's implementation. It does atomic delay when the delay value
> is less than 10us. But selectively gets to the usleep_range() if value is
> greater than that.

Yes, I hadn't realised this was in atomic context - _delay_exec() is
just not safe to use there, it'll swich to a sleeping delay if the time
is long enough.

> > > + while (dw_spi_dma_tx_busy(dws) && retry--)
> > > + ndelay(ns);

> > I might be mistaken, but I think I told that this one misses to keep power
> > management in mind.

> Here we already in nearly atomic context due to the callback executed in the
> tasklet. What power management could be during a tasklet execution? Again we
> can't call sleeping methods in here. What do you suggest in substitution?

You'd typically have a cpu_relax() in there as well as the ndelay().
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