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

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 26 10:35:12 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-3.11.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 9460747ce90535e7765545ffec4de62f6a3efe99 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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 3412adcdaeb0..6cba26d9465f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ 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)
@@ -233,10 +234,7 @@ 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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