Patch "drm/amd/powerplay: need to notify system bios pcie device ready" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

drm/amd/powerplay: need to notify system bios pcie device ready

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
drm-amd-powerplay-need-to-notify-system-bios-pcie-device-ready.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Rex Zhu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:36:36 +0800
Subject: drm/amd/powerplay: need to notify system bios pcie device ready

From: Rex Zhu <[email protected]>

commit 0a4fef559b69ae2e682c98f31d53a225fbda78bd upstream.

before request performance state.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/hwmgr/pp_acpi.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/inc/pp_acpi.h   |    1 +
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ bool acpi_atcs_functions_supported(void
 	return result == 0 ? (output_buf.function_bits & (1 << (index - 1))) != 0 : false;
 }
 
+bool acpi_atcs_notify_pcie_device_ready(void *device)
+{
+	int32_t temp_buffer = 1;
+
+	return cgs_call_acpi_method(device, CGS_ACPI_METHOD_ATCS,
+				ATCS_FUNCTION_PCIE_DEVICE_READY_NOTIFICATION,
+						&temp_buffer,
+						NULL,
+						0,
+						sizeof(temp_buffer),
+						0);
+}
+
+
 int acpi_pcie_perf_request(void *device, uint8_t perf_req, bool advertise)
 {
 	struct atcs_pref_req_input atcs_input;

@@ -29,7 +43,7 @@ int acpi_pcie_perf_request(void *device,
 	int result;
 	struct cgs_system_info info = {0};
 
-	if (!acpi_atcs_functions_supported(device, ATCS_FUNCTION_PCIE_PERFORMANCE_REQUEST))
+	if( 0 != acpi_atcs_notify_pcie_device_ready(device))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	info.size = sizeof(struct cgs_system_info);

@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ extern bool acpi_atcs_functions_supporte
 extern int acpi_pcie_perf_request(void *device,
 						uint8_t perf_req,
 						bool advertise);
+extern bool acpi_atcs_notify_pcie_device_ready(void *device);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.6/drm-amd-powerplay-fix-logic-error.patch queue-4.6/drm-amd-powerplay-fix-bug-that-function-parameter-was-incorect.patch queue-4.6/drm-amd-powerplay-need-to-notify-system-bios-pcie-device-ready.patch queue-4.6/drm-amd-powerplay-incorrectly-use-of-the-function-return-value.patch