[PATCH spi-next 3/3] spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: cache content of Interrupt Enable Register (IER)

From: Marc Kleine-Budde

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 07:28:32 EST


To improve performance avoid reading the Interrupt Enable Register (IER)
from the hardware, cache in struct fsl_lpspi_data::reg_ier.

Introduce struct fsl_lpspi_data::reg_ier, to cache the current value.
Extend fsl_lpspi_intctrl() to update the cache and replace the open coded
writing of the IRQ register in fsl_lpspi_prepare_message() with
fsl_lpspi_intctrl().

In fsl_lpspi_isr() don't read the IER from the hardware, but use the cached
value from struct fsl_lpspi_data::reg_ier.

Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c
index b25f94b2ef73..5b158b0cb5af 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct fsl_lpspi_data {
void (*rx)(struct fsl_lpspi_data *fsl_lpspi);

u32 remain;
+ u32 reg_ier;
u8 watermark;
u8 txfifosize;
u8 rxfifosize;
@@ -199,6 +200,7 @@ LPSPI_BUF_TX(u32)
static void fsl_lpspi_intctrl(struct fsl_lpspi_data *fsl_lpspi,
unsigned int enable)
{
+ fsl_lpspi->reg_ier = enable;
writel(enable, fsl_lpspi->base + IMX7ULP_IER);
}

@@ -525,7 +527,7 @@ static int fsl_lpspi_prepare_message(struct spi_controller *controller,
fsl_lpspi_set_cmd(fsl_lpspi);

/* No IRQs */
- writel(0, fsl_lpspi->base + IMX7ULP_IER);
+ fsl_lpspi_intctrl(fsl_lpspi, 0);

/* Controller disable, clear FIFOs, clear status */
writel(CR_RRF | CR_RTF, fsl_lpspi->base + IMX7ULP_CR);
@@ -808,7 +810,7 @@ static irqreturn_t fsl_lpspi_isr(int irq, void *dev_id)
u32 temp_SR, temp_IER;
struct fsl_lpspi_data *fsl_lpspi = dev_id;

- temp_IER = readl(fsl_lpspi->base + IMX7ULP_IER);
+ temp_IER = fsl_lpspi->reg_ier;
fsl_lpspi_intctrl(fsl_lpspi, 0);
temp_SR = readl(fsl_lpspi->base + IMX7ULP_SR);


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