Re: [PATCH 1/5] spi: spi-mem: Add support for panic mem writes

From: Mark Brown

Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 07:51:25 EST


On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 10:25:07AM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> Le jeudi 08 octobre 2026 à 10:32 +0200, Mark Brown a écrit :

> > This also needs to ensure that the queue is idle - we'll still execute
> > spi_mem_access_start() which flushes the queue, and we've got runtime PM
> > operations there which might be a bit challenging in a panic situation.

> Does it though? The kernel is panicking so the queue won't be processed anymore,
> it should be fine to just ignore it.

Do the other CPUs know they're panicing yet, and what state is the
hardware in? I'm a bit nervous about assuming panic got things into a
good state.

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