This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs to the 4.11-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-therm-remove-ineffective-workarounds-for-alarm-bugs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e4311ee51d1e2676001b2d8fcefd92bdd79aad85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:33:39 +1000 Subject: drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e4311ee51d1e2676001b2d8fcefd92bdd79aad85 upstream. These were ineffective due to touching the list without the alarm lock, but should no longer be required. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/base.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fan.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fantog.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/base.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/base.c @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ nvkm_therm_update(struct nvkm_therm *the poll = false; } - if (list_empty(&therm->alarm.head) && poll) + if (poll) nvkm_timer_alarm(tmr, 1000000000ULL, &therm->alarm); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&therm->lock, flags); --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fan.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fan.c @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ nvkm_fan_update(struct nvkm_fan *fan, bo spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fan->lock, flags); /* schedule next fan update, if not at target speed already */ - if (list_empty(&fan->alarm.head) && target != duty) { + if (target != duty) { u16 bump_period = fan->bios.bump_period; u16 slow_down_period = fan->bios.slow_down_period; u64 delay; --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fantog.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fantog.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ nvkm_fantog_update(struct nvkm_fantog *f duty = !nvkm_gpio_get(gpio, 0, DCB_GPIO_FAN, 0xff); nvkm_gpio_set(gpio, 0, DCB_GPIO_FAN, 0xff, duty); - if (list_empty(&fan->alarm.head) && percent != (duty * 100)) { + if (percent != (duty * 100)) { u64 next_change = (percent * fan->period_us) / 100; if (!duty) next_change = fan->period_us - next_change; --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ alarm_timer_callback(struct nvkm_alarm * spin_unlock_irqrestore(&therm->sensor.alarm_program_lock, flags); /* schedule the next poll in one second */ - if (therm->func->temp_get(therm) >= 0 && list_empty(&alarm->head)) + if (therm->func->temp_get(therm) >= 0) nvkm_timer_alarm(tmr, 1000000000ULL, alarm); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-ack-interrupt-before-processing-alarms.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-fix-corruption-of-the-pending-list-when-rescheduling-an-alarm.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-avoid-processing-completed-alarms-when-adding-a-new-one.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-mmu-nv4a-use-nv04-mmu-rather-than-the-nv44-one.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-therm-remove-ineffective-workarounds-for-alarm-bugs.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-kms-nv50-skip-core-channel-cursor-update-on-position-only-changes.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-kms-nv50-fix-source-rect-only-plane-updates.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-handle-races-with-hw-when-updating-the-next-alarm-time.patch