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    spi: atmel: Prevent spi transfers from being killed · 890188d2
    Miquel Raynal authored
    Upstream commit e0205d62 ("spi: atmel: Prevent false timeouts on
    long transfers") has tried to mitigate the problem of getting spi
    transfers canceled because they were lasting too long. On slow buses,
    transfers in the MiB range can take more than one second and thus a
    calculation was added to progressively increment the timeout value. In
    order to not be too problematic from a user point of view (waiting dozen
    of seconds or even minutes), the wait call was turned interruptible.
    
    Turning the wait interruptible was a mistake as what we really wanted to
    do was to be able to kill a transfer. Any signal interrupting our
    transfer would not be suitable at all so a second attempt was made at
    turning the wait killable instead.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20231127095842.389631-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com/
    
    All being well, it was reported that JFFS2 was showing a splat when
    interrupting a transfer. After some more debate about whether JFFS2
    should be fixed and how, it was also pointed out that the whole
    consistency of the filesystem in case of parallel I/O would be
    compromised. Changing JFFS2 behavior would in theory be possible but
    nobody has the energy and time and knowledge to do this now, so better
    prevent spi transfers to be interrupted by the user.
    
    Partially revert the blamed commit to no longer use the interruptible
    nor the killable variant of wait_for_completion().
    
    Fixes: e0205d62 ("spi: atmel: Prevent false timeouts on long transfers")
    Cc:  <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarRonald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205083102.16946-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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