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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html