This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dcdbas-force-smi-to-happen-when-expected.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From dd65c736d1b5312c80c88a64bf521db4959eded5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Hayes <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:42:05 +0100
Subject: dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
From: Stuart Hayes <[email protected]>
commit dd65c736d1b5312c80c88a64bf521db4959eded5 upstream.
The dcdbas driver can do an I/O write to cause a SMI to occur. The SMI handler
looks at certain registers and memory locations, so the SMI needs to happen
immediately. On some systems I/O writes are posted, though, causing the SMI to
happen well after the "outb" occurred, which causes random failures. Following
the "outb" with an "inb" forces the write to go through even if it is posted.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Doug Warzecha <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ int dcdbas_smi_request(struct smi_cmd *s
}
/* generate SMI */
+ /* inb to force posted write through and make SMI happen now */
asm volatile (
- "outb %b0,%w1"
+ "outb %b0,%w1\n"
+ "inb %w1"
: /* no output args */
: "a" (smi_cmd->command_code),
"d" (smi_cmd->command_address),
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from
[email protected] are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/dcdbas-force-smi-to-happen-when-expected.patch
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