The patch titled spi: limit reaches -1, tested 0 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spi-limit-reaches-1-tested-0.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: spi: limit reaches -1, tested 0 From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> With a postfix decrement limit will reach -1 rather than 0, so the warning will not be issued. Also, add a cpu_relax() into the busy-wait loop. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mariusz Ceier <mceier@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi_imx.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/spi/spi_imx.c~spi-limit-reaches-1-tested-0 drivers/spi/spi_imx.c --- a/drivers/spi/spi_imx.c~spi-limit-reaches-1-tested-0 +++ a/drivers/spi/spi_imx.c @@ -779,7 +779,8 @@ static irqreturn_t interrupt_transfer(st /* Read trailing bytes */ limit = loops_per_jiffy << 1; - while ((read(drv_data) == 0) && limit--); + while ((read(drv_data) == 0) && --limit) + cpu_relax(); if (limit == 0) dev_err(&drv_data->pdev->dev, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drm-fix-lock_test_with_return-macro.patch dvb-negative-internal-sub_range-wont-get-noticed.patch leds-fix-confusion.patch paride-pgc-xs-confusion.patch mm-get_nid_for_pfn-returns-int.patch alpha-fix-macros.patch spi-limit-reaches-1-tested-0.patch rtc-wm8350-retries-will-reach-1.patch ufs-sector_t-cannot-be-negative.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html