In some rare cases I see the following 'task blocked' information. It looks like the PIO transfer has some problems and never succeeds. Make use of wait_for_completion_timeout(..) to detect this case and return -ETIMEDOUT. v2: remove backtrace from commit message Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c index 50769078..d2b96b1 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c @@ -1050,6 +1050,8 @@ static int spi_imx_pio_transfer(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_transfer *transfer) { struct spi_imx_data *spi_imx = spi_master_get_devdata(spi->master); + unsigned long transfer_timeout; + unsigned long timeout; spi_imx->tx_buf = transfer->tx_buf; spi_imx->rx_buf = transfer->rx_buf; @@ -1062,7 +1064,15 @@ static int spi_imx_pio_transfer(struct spi_device *spi, spi_imx->devtype_data->intctrl(spi_imx, MXC_INT_TE); - wait_for_completion(&spi_imx->xfer_done); + transfer_timeout = spi_imx_calculate_timeout(spi_imx, transfer->len); + + timeout = wait_for_completion_timeout(&spi_imx->xfer_done, + transfer_timeout); + if (!timeout) { + dev_err(&spi->dev, "I/O Error in PIO\n"); + spi_imx->devtype_data->reset(spi_imx); + return -ETIMEDOUT; + } return transfer->len; } -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html