Re: Bug in in spi-bcm53xx (rcu_sched) exposed by 0461a41 ("spi: Pump transfers inside calling context for spi_sync()")

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> Unfortunately the bug in spi-bcm53xx isn't obvious for me. I kept
> looking at its code for a bit but couldn't find anything.

> Knowing the commit that exposed this bug, does it give you any hint
> what may be wrong with spi-bcm53xx?

It's most likely just hammering the CPU for a very long time without
scheduling due to doing a long PIO transfers.  That change just removes
some needless context switching.

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