Memory mapped flash access can be quite slow on older processors. For writing and erasing, we already call resched() indirectly to feed the watchdog, so let's do this when reading as well. This fixes an issue of short running watchdogs triggering on PowerPC, because kernel boot takes too long. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/nor/cfi_flash.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nor/cfi_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/nor/cfi_flash.c index f1555a72a42e..10542c710118 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nor/cfi_flash.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nor/cfi_flash.c @@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ #include <io.h> #include <errno.h> #include <progress.h> +#include <string.h> #include <linux/err.h> +#include <linux/sizes.h> #include <asm/unaligned.h> #include <linux/mtd/concat.h> #include "cfi_flash.h" @@ -891,10 +893,16 @@ static int cfi_mtd_read(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t *retlen, u8 *buf) { struct flash_info *info = container_of(mtd, struct flash_info, mtd); + const void *src = info->base + from; + size_t i; + + for (i = 0; i < len; i = size_add(i, SZ_1M)) { + buf = mempcpy(buf, src + i, min_t(size_t, len, SZ_1M)); + if (ctrlc()) + return -EINTR; + } - memcpy(buf, info->base + from, len); *retlen = len; - return 0; } -- 2.39.2