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authorStuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@yahoo.com>2011-03-02 13:42:05 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-27 11:36:39 -0700
commit0dc58dee18c289cbbaa6fb4b5746d6b503ae5642 (patch)
tree0a92689480b642a333dd46b56101fd23fdeb97d7 /drivers/firmware
parentc9da0558d0b82ac448d12af27c6f743b86aecf66 (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/firmware')
-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 69ad529d92f..ea5ac2dc123 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),