[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/nv4c/mc: disable msi" 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/nv4c/mc: disable msi

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt5.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 553d2a9eb734b5c30933fdeec9b2c0046d1ab627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:55:38 -0500
Subject: drm/nv4c/mc: disable msi

commit 4761703bd04bbdf56396d264903cc5a1fdcb3c01 upstream.

Several users have, over time, reported issues with MSI on these IGPs.
They're old, rarely available, and MSI doesn't provide such huge
advantages on them. Just disable.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87361
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74492
Fixes: fa8c9ac72fe ("drm/nv4c/mc: nv4x igp's have a different msi rearm register")
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/nv4c.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/nv4c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/nv4c.c
index a75c35ccf25c..165401c4045c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/nv4c.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/nv4c.c
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@

 #include "nv04.h"

-static void
-nv4c_mc_msi_rearm(struct nouveau_mc *pmc)
-{
-	struct nv04_mc_priv *priv = (void *)pmc;
-	nv_wr08(priv, 0x088050, 0xff);
-}
-
 struct nouveau_oclass *
 nv4c_mc_oclass = &(struct nouveau_mc_oclass) {
 	.base.handle = NV_SUBDEV(MC, 0x4c),
@@ -41,5 +34,4 @@ nv4c_mc_oclass = &(struct nouveau_mc_oclass) {
 		.fini = _nouveau_mc_fini,
 	},
 	.intr = nv04_mc_intr,
-	.msi_rearm = nv4c_mc_msi_rearm,
 }.base;
--
2.1.4