Patch "sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()" has been added to the 3.12-stable tree

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

    sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()

to the 3.12-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:
     sfc-refactor-efx_mcdi_poll-by-introducing-efx_mcdi_poll_once.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

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


>From foo@baz Mon Jan 13 09:44:41 PST 2014
From: Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:52:43 +0100
Subject: sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()

From: Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 5731d7b35e5b87157a9b9973cc2eff70c50aec58 ]

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct efx_mcdi_async_param {
 static void efx_mcdi_timeout_async(unsigned long context);
 static int efx_mcdi_drv_attach(struct efx_nic *efx, bool driver_operating,
 			       bool *was_attached_out);
+static bool efx_mcdi_poll_once(struct efx_nic *efx);
 
 static inline struct efx_mcdi_iface *efx_mcdi(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
@@ -237,6 +238,21 @@ static void efx_mcdi_read_response_heade
 	}
 }
 
+static bool efx_mcdi_poll_once(struct efx_nic *efx)
+{
+	struct efx_mcdi_iface *mcdi = efx_mcdi(efx);
+
+	rmb();
+	if (!efx->type->mcdi_poll_response(efx))
+		return false;
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
+	efx_mcdi_read_response_header(efx);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 static int efx_mcdi_poll(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
 	struct efx_mcdi_iface *mcdi = efx_mcdi(efx);
@@ -272,18 +288,13 @@ static int efx_mcdi_poll(struct efx_nic
 
 		time = jiffies;
 
-		rmb();
-		if (efx->type->mcdi_poll_response(efx))
+		if (efx_mcdi_poll_once(efx))
 			break;
 
 		if (time_after(time, finish))
 			return -ETIMEDOUT;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
-	efx_mcdi_read_response_header(efx);
-	spin_unlock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
-
 	/* Return rc=0 like wait_event_timeout() */
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rstonehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.12/sfc-refactor-efx_mcdi_poll-by-introducing-efx_mcdi_poll_once.patch
queue-3.12/sfc-poll-for-mcdi-completion-once-before-timeout-occurs.patch
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