On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 08:01:37AM +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote:
> Dnia 24 października 2024 22:37:08 CEST, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> napisał/a:
> >On my device reading entirety of /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/cmos_nvram0/nvmem
> >takes about 9 msec during which time interrupts are off on the CPU that
> >does the read and the thread that performs the read can not be migrated
> >or preempted by another higher priority thread (RT or not).
> >
> >Allow readers and writers be preempted by taking and releasing rtc_lock
> >spinlock for each individual byte read or written rather than once per
> >read/write request.
>
> Hello,
> A nice idea!
> (sorry for any formatting problems, I'm on a train right now)
>
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >---
> > drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 31 +++++++++++++++----------------
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> >index 35dca2accbb8..e8f2fe0d8560 100644
> >--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> >+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> >@@ -645,18 +645,17 @@ static int cmos_nvram_read(void *priv, unsigned int off, void *val,
> > unsigned char *buf = val;
> >
> > off += NVRAM_OFFSET;
> >- spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);
> >- for (; count; count--, off++) {
> >+ for (; count; count--, off++, buf++) {
> >+ guard(spinlock_irq)(&rtc_lock);
> > if (off < 128)
> >- *buf++ = CMOS_READ(off);
> >+ *buf = CMOS_READ(off);
> > else if (can_bank2)
> >- *buf++ = cmos_read_bank2(off);
> >+ *buf = cmos_read_bank2(off);
> > else
> >- break;
> >+ return -EIO;
> > }
> >- spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock);
> >
> >- return count ? -EIO : 0;
> >+ return count;
>
> return 0;
Oh, yes, of course, thank you.
--
Dmitry
