linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] spi: bcm2835: Enable shared interrupt support

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:04:46 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, lukas@...ner.de,
        "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:SPI SUBSYSTEM" <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "maintainer:BROADCOM BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE..." 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Martin Sperl <kernel@...tin.sperl.org>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] spi: bcm2835: Enable shared interrupt support



On 6/15/2020 10:00 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:34:58AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
>> OK, so this has been dropped for spi/for-next right? How do we move from
>> there?
> 
> Well, I actually have it queued up for applying so unless I pull it
> before my scripts get that far through the stuff I queued over the merge
> window it'll go in (I dropped it due to it not being a bugfix).  If it
> were me I'd go with the two instruction hit from checking the flag TBH
> but otherwise I guess __always_inline should work for compilers that
> misoptimize.  None of this is getting in the way of the framework so if
> everyone involved in the driver is happy to spend time optimising it
> and dealing with the fragility then it's fine by me.

OK, how about I send you an increment patch (would a fixup be okay?)
that adds __always_inline since we know from this thread that some
compilers may mis-optimize the function inlining?
-- 
Florian