From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Hellstrom , Mark Sheldon , Jakob Bornecrantz Subject: [PATCH 3.10 032/143] drm/vmwgfx: Fix a potential infinite spin waiting for fifo idle Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:33:47 -0700 Message-Id: <20141003213315.454290944@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20141003213314.470709810@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141003213314.470709810@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Hellstrom commit f01ea0c3d9db536c64d47922716d8b3b8f21d850 upstream. The code waiting for fifo idle was incorrect and could possibly spin forever under certain circumstances. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Reported-by: Mark Sheldon Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz Reivewed-by: Mark Sheldon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c @@ -163,8 +163,9 @@ void vmw_fifo_release(struct vmw_private mutex_lock(&dev_priv->hw_mutex); + vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_SYNC, SVGA_SYNC_GENERIC); while (vmw_read(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_BUSY) != 0) - vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_SYNC, SVGA_SYNC_GENERIC); + ; dev_priv->last_read_seqno = ioread32(fifo_mem + SVGA_FIFO_FENCE);