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[2/2] drm/vmwgfx: Fix a potential infinite spin waiting for fifo idle

Message ID 1409567605-4636-2-git-send-email-thellstrom@vmware.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Thomas Hellstrom Sept. 1, 2014, 10:33 a.m. UTC 
The code waiting for fifo idle was incorrect and could possibly spin
forever under certain circumstances.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Reported-by: Mark Sheldon <markshel@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
Reivewed-by: Mark Sheldon <markshel@vmware.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
index 6ccd993..6eae14d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fifo.c
@@ -180,8 +180,9 @@  void vmw_fifo_release(struct vmw_private *dev_priv, struct vmw_fifo_state *fifo)
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->hw_mutex);
 
+	vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_SYNC, SVGA_SYNC_GENERIC);
 	while (vmw_read(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_BUSY) != 0)
-		vmw_write(dev_priv, SVGA_REG_SYNC, SVGA_SYNC_GENERIC);
+		;
 
 	dev_priv->last_read_seqno = ioread32(fifo_mem + SVGA_FIFO_FENCE);