spi: atmel: Prevent spi transfers from being killed
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: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Tested-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205083102.16946-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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