Patch "Disable write buffering on Toshiba ToPIC95" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Disable write buffering on Toshiba ToPIC95

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     disable-write-buffering-on-toshiba-topic95.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2fb22a8042fe96b4220843f79241c116d90922c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis@icequake.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:07:09 -0800
Subject: Disable write buffering on Toshiba ToPIC95

From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis@icequake.net>

commit 2fb22a8042fe96b4220843f79241c116d90922c4 upstream.

Disable write buffering on the Toshiba ToPIC95 if it is enabled by
somebody (it is not supposed to be a power-on default according to
the datasheet). On the ToPIC95, practically no 32-bit Cardbus card
will work under heavy load without locking up the whole system if
this is left enabled. I tried about a dozen. It does not affect
16-bit cards. This is similar to the O2 bugs in early controller
revisions it seems.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55961
Signed-off-by: Ryan C. Underwood <nemesis@icequake.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/pcmcia/topic.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/pcmcia/topic.h
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/topic.h
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@
 #define TOPIC_EXCA_IF_CONTROL		0x3e	/* 8 bit */
 #define TOPIC_EXCA_IFC_33V_ENA		0x01
 
+#define TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN		0x3e	/* 16-bit */
+#define TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN_WBEN	0x0400
+
 static void topic97_zoom_video(struct pcmcia_socket *sock, int onoff)
 {
 	struct yenta_socket *socket = container_of(sock, struct yenta_socket, socket);
@@ -138,6 +141,7 @@ static int topic97_override(struct yenta
 static int topic95_override(struct yenta_socket *socket)
 {
 	u8 fctrl;
+	u16 ppbcn;
 
 	/* enable 3.3V support for 16bit cards */
 	fctrl = exca_readb(socket, TOPIC_EXCA_IF_CONTROL);
@@ -146,6 +150,18 @@ static int topic95_override(struct yenta
 	/* tell yenta to use exca registers to power 16bit cards */
 	socket->flags |= YENTA_16BIT_POWER_EXCA | YENTA_16BIT_POWER_DF;
 
+	/* Disable write buffers to prevent lockups under load with numerous
+	   Cardbus cards, observed on Tecra 500CDT and reported elsewhere on the
+	   net.  This is not a power-on default according to the datasheet
+	   but some BIOSes seem to set it. */
+	if (pci_read_config_word(socket->dev, TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN, &ppbcn) == 0
+	    && socket->dev->revision <= 7
+	    && (ppbcn & TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN_WBEN)) {
+		ppbcn &= ~TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN_WBEN;
+		pci_write_config_word(socket->dev, TOPIC_PCI_CFG_PPBCN, ppbcn);
+		dev_info(&socket->dev->dev, "Disabled ToPIC95 Cardbus write buffers.\n");
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nemesis@icequake.net are

queue-4.0/disable-write-buffering-on-toshiba-topic95.patch