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authorStuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@yahoo.com>2011-03-02 13:42:05 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-28 07:31:23 -0700
commitecf63042d77be3fd68519499399064db35bc91cd (patch)
tree0c9e00cc9b1da380afa665270058c04469b7e837
parenta44ba30a832efbf9e48af31a5db8dc75f5a6663a (diff)
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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>
-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 18d65fb42ee7..3abb51577a52 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ 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),