Re: [PATCH 01/10] spi: dw: Add support for polled operation via no IRQ specified in DT

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 10:56:00 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:03 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With this change a SPI controller can be added without having a IRQ
> associated, and causing all transfers to be polled. For SPI controllers
> without DMA, this can significantly improve performance by less
> interrupt handling overhead.

...

> +#define VALID_IRQ(i) (i >= 0)

drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c:95:#define is_valid_irq(n) ((n) > 0)

Candidate to be in include/linux/irq.h ?

...

> + if (VALID_IRQ(dws->irq))
> + free_irq(dws->irq, master);

Isn't free_irq() aware of invalid ones (not found IRQ in the tree or
any other backend container won't do anything)?


> err_free_master:
> spi_controller_put(master);
> return ret;
> --
> 2.26.2



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko