[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Fix incorrect write to read-only register v2:" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    drm/vmwgfx: Fix incorrect write to read-only register v2:

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 69fb9b97a8bfc697add7595d6a2cedbd8bed65d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:47:04 +0200
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix incorrect write to read-only register v2:

commit 4e578080ed3262ed2c3985868539bc66218d25c0 upstream.

Commit "drm/vmwgfx: correct fb_fix_screeninfo.line_length", while fixing a
vmwgfx fbdev bug, also writes the pitch to a supposedly read-only register:
SVGA_REG_BYTES_PER_LINE, while it should be (and also in fact is) written to
SVGA_REG_PITCHLOCK.

This patch is Cc'd stable because of the unknown effects writing to this
register might have, particularly on older device versions.

v2: Updated log message.

Cc: Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
index 021b5227e783..1b0f34bd3a03 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ static int vmw_fb_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
 		vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_POSITION_Y, info->var.yoffset);
 		vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_WIDTH, info->var.xres);
 		vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_HEIGHT, info->var.yres);
-		vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_BYTES_PER_LINE, info->fix.line_length);
 		vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_ID, SVGA_ID_INVALID);
 	}

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