Patch "drm/nouveau/tmr: ack interrupt before processing alarms" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "drm/nouveau/tmr: ack interrupt before processing alarms" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    drm/nouveau/tmr: ack interrupt before processing alarms

to the 4.4-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:
     drm-nouveau-tmr-ack-interrupt-before-processing-alarms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 3733bd8b407211739e72d051e5f30ad82a52c4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 16:53:42 +1000
Subject: drm/nouveau/tmr: ack interrupt before processing alarms

From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>

commit 3733bd8b407211739e72d051e5f30ad82a52c4bc upstream.

Fixes a race where we can miss an alarm that triggers while we're already
processing previous alarms.

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/nv04.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/nv04.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer/nv04.c
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ nv04_timer_intr(struct nvkm_timer *tmr)
 	u32 stat = nvkm_rd32(device, NV04_PTIMER_INTR_0);
 
 	if (stat & 0x00000001) {
-		nvkm_timer_alarm_trigger(tmr);
 		nvkm_wr32(device, NV04_PTIMER_INTR_0, 0x00000001);
+		nvkm_timer_alarm_trigger(tmr);
 		stat &= ~0x00000001;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-tmr-ack-interrupt-before-processing-alarms.patch
queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-tmr-fix-corruption-of-the-pending-list-when-rescheduling-an-alarm.patch
queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-tmr-avoid-processing-completed-alarms-when-adding-a-new-one.patch
queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-mmu-nv4a-use-nv04-mmu-rather-than-the-nv44-one.patch
queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-therm-remove-ineffective-workarounds-for-alarm-bugs.patch
queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-tmr-handle-races-with-hw-when-updating-the-next-alarm-time.patch