[PATCH 3.4 17/43] matroxfb: perform a dummy read of M_STATUS

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 972754cfaee94d6e25acf94a497bc0a864d91b7e upstream.

I had occasional screen corruption with the matrox framebuffer driver and
I found out that the reason for the corruption is that the hardware
blitter accesses the videoram while it is being written to.

The matrox driver has a macro WaitTillIdle() that should wait until the
blitter is idle, but it sometimes doesn't work. I added a dummy read
mga_inl(M_STATUS) to WaitTillIdle() to fix the problem. The dummy read
will flush the write buffer in the PCI chipset, and the next read of
M_STATUS will return the hardware status.

Since applying this patch, I had no screen corruption at all.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h
+++ b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ void matroxfb_unregister_driver(struct m
 
 #define mga_fifo(n)	do {} while ((mga_inl(M_FIFOSTATUS) & 0xFF) < (n))
 
-#define WaitTillIdle()	do {} while (mga_inl(M_STATUS) & 0x10000)
+#define WaitTillIdle()	do { mga_inl(M_STATUS); do {} while (mga_inl(M_STATUS) & 0x10000); } while (0)
 
 /* code speedup */
 #ifdef CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM


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