[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "mei: me: drop harmful wait optimization" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 15 21:29:23 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mei: me: drop harmful wait optimization

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e4ed4c120875bd80f792c9f6bdff1ad5b0b604df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:19:40 +0300
Subject: mei: me: drop harmful wait optimization

commit 07cd7be3d92eeeae1f92a017f2cfe4fdd9256526 upstream.

It my take time till ME_RDY will be cleared after the reset,
so we cannot check the bit before we got the interrupt

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c
index f285dc1..4835edc 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ static int mei_me_hw_reset(struct mei_device *dev, bool intr_enable)
 	else
 		hcsr &= ~H_IE;

+	dev->recvd_hw_ready = false;
 	mei_me_reg_write(hw, H_CSR, hcsr);

 	if (dev->dev_state == MEI_DEV_POWER_DOWN)
@@ -237,10 +238,7 @@ static bool mei_me_hw_is_ready(struct mei_device *dev)
 static int mei_me_hw_ready_wait(struct mei_device *dev)
 {
 	int err;
-	if (mei_me_hw_is_ready(dev))
-		return 0;

-	dev->recvd_hw_ready = false;
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->device_lock);
 	err = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(dev->wait_hw_ready,
 			dev->recvd_hw_ready,
--
1.9.1





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