On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:14:57 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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. > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/1] rtc: cmos: avoid taking rtc_lock for extended period of time https://git.kernel.org/abelloni/c/0a6efab33eab Best regards, -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com