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authorStuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@yahoo.com>2011-03-02 13:42:05 +0100
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-03-31 11:58:48 -0700
commitcef20fc68de94ffc279b8f56205d47cd591dd42b (patch)
treecd7cc58ec9936b06f250f91ce82eaee4224e7d2a
parent0fce96e0a736b60c49c4a1f8a37be56fe02d02b7 (diff)
dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
commit dd65c736d1b5312c80c88a64bf521db4959eded5 upstream. The dcdbas driver can do an I/O write to cause a SMI to occur. The SMI handler looks at certain registers and memory locations, so the SMI needs to happen immediately. On some systems I/O writes are posted, though, causing the SMI to happen well after the "outb" occurred, which causes random failures. Following the "outb" with an "inb" forces the write to go through even if it is posted. Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Doug Warzecha <douglas_warzecha@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
index aa9bc9e980e..dad21fddf55 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
@@ -268,8 +268,10 @@ int dcdbas_smi_request(struct smi_cmd *smi_cmd)
}
/* generate SMI */
+ /* inb to force posted write through and make SMI happen now */
asm volatile (
- "outb %b0,%w1"
+ "outb %b0,%w1\n"
+ "inb %w1"
: /* no output args */
: "a" (smi_cmd->command_code),
"d" (smi_cmd->command_address),