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The current implementation of the driver holds a spin lock for the duration of the transfer, releasing it only to enable interrupts for short periods of time. As this would prevent any interrupt from happening, this could cause system performance issues every time a SPI message is sent. Since the spi core now handles message syncronization we can reduce the amount of time the spin-lock is held to the regions where both the calling thread and the interrupt might interract. Signed-off-by: Dan Sneddon <dan.sneddon@microchip.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602160816.4890-2-dan.sneddon@microchip.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.