| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.16 084/357] drm/vmwgfx: Fix a potential infinite spin waiting for fifo idle | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:27:50 -0700 |
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3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
commit f01ea0c3d9db536c64d47922716d8b3b8f21d850 upstream.
The code waiting for fifo idle was incorrect and could possibly spin forever under certain circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Reported-by: Mark Sheldon <markshel@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com> Reivewed-by: Mark Sheldon <markshel@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- 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 @@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ 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);
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