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

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed May 25 2022 - 13:55:30 EST


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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