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authorStuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@yahoo.com>2011-03-02 13:42:05 +0100
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2011-04-30 16:53:23 +0200
commit151a586bbc5ea9a24249bfc30c3d5ff97f587ee0 (patch)
tree66267ecde85bf7a32f4d2b2b59defbf81ce1cf5a /drivers
parent087210b8f062102ff79229bcec9a41fdb69edc68 (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> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-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 50a071f1c94..bfec8996232 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
@@ -264,8 +264,10 @@ static int 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),