Re: [PATCH] Revert "apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes"

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 02:38:00PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 07:35:45PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > Commit 4eebd5a4e726 ("apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb
> > changes") amended this driver's ->probe hook to lock decoding of normal
> > (non-legacy) I/O space accesses to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU
> > MacBook Pros.  The lock stays in place until the driver is unbound.
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > So let's revert commit 4eebd5a4e726 please.  Users experiencing the
> > issue with the proprietary nvidia driver can comment out the above-
> > quoted problematic code as a workaround (or try updating the BIOS).
> > 
> > Cc: Petri Hodju <petrihodju@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> > Cc: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
> > Cc: Andy Ritger <aritger@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>
> 
> I presume we'd like to see this applied to linux-stable as well?

I haven't heard back, but from what I've seen in this thread, this appears to me
to be in need of porting back to stable releases. I'm pushing this to testing,
and then shortly to for-next, and then to Linus.

Please let me know if this isn't what everyone is expecting.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center