matroxfb: perform a dummy read of M_STATUS
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 15 May 2014 10:58:24 +0000 (06:58 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Jul 2014 03:09:42 +0000 (20:09 -0700)
commit031767d310d44ec8e1e244ad8e8d0f5564f4a49a
tree1607a52954c183d634866367a141c4af66c6fef3
parentdc10f332a7fce531cd44fc5984286369a6bb71f0
matroxfb: perform a dummy read of M_STATUS

commit 972754cfaee94d6e25acf94a497bc0a864d91b7e upstream.

I had occasional screen corruption with the matrox framebuffer driver and
I found out that the reason for the corruption is that the hardware
blitter accesses the videoram while it is being written to.

The matrox driver has a macro WaitTillIdle() that should wait until the
blitter is idle, but it sometimes doesn't work. I added a dummy read
mga_inl(M_STATUS) to WaitTillIdle() to fix the problem. The dummy read
will flush the write buffer in the PCI chipset, and the next read of
M_STATUS will return the hardware status.

Since applying this patch, I had no screen corruption at all.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h