linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: fsi: Fix spurious timeout

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Date:   Wed, 25 May 2022 18:55:18 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: fsi: Fix spurious timeout

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:58:51AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:

>  I have one concern still, that if the kernel is very busy, it may
>  schedule other work for the entire timeout period between assigning
>  "end" and checking if timed out in the do/while loop... Is it worth
>  worrying about this case?

I'm not sure we can entirely avoid there being a gap, but with it being
a busy loop you'd have to be very unlucky to hit that case.  If you come
up with a fix that'd be nice.

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