Subject: [PATCH 1/6] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver

From: [email-masked] (David Brown)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:51:08 -0700

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]> writes:

>> +static int ssbi_wait_mask(struct msm_ssbi *ssbi, u32 set_mask, u32 clr_mask)
>> +{
>> +	u32 timeout = SSBI_TIMEOUT_US;
>> +	u32 val;
>> +
>> +	while (timeout--) {
>> +		val = ssbi_readl(ssbi, SSBI2_STATUS);
>> +		if (((val & set_mask) == set_mask) && ((val & clr_mask) == 0))
>> +			return 0;
>> +		udelay(1);
>
> Busy loop?  Really?

Finally was able to dig up some of the reason for this.  The
transactions typically take about 5us.  In the case of contention with
another CPU, it could take as much as 20us.

Would it be sufficient to just explain this in a comment?

David