regmap: introduce fast_io busses, and use a spinlock for them

Some bus types have very fast IO. For these, acquiring a mutex for every
IO operation is a significant overhead. Allow busses to indicate their IO
is fast, and enhance regmap to use a spinlock for those busses.

[Currently limited to native endian registers -- broonie]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/regmap.h b/include/linux/regmap.h
index 8fd341e613d6..f14588a96eaf 100644
--- a/include/linux/regmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/regmap.h
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ typedef void (*regmap_hw_free_context)(void *context);
 /**
  * Description of a hardware bus for the register map infrastructure.
  *
+ * @fast_io: Register IO is fast. Use a spinlock instead of a mutex
+ *           to perform locking.
  * @write: Write operation.
  * @gather_write: Write operation with split register/value, return -ENOTSUPP
  *                if not implemented  on a given device.
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ typedef void (*regmap_hw_free_context)(void *context);
  *                  a read.
  */
 struct regmap_bus {
+	bool fast_io;
 	regmap_hw_write write;
 	regmap_hw_gather_write gather_write;
 	regmap_hw_read read;