Patch "drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

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

drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs

to the 4.11-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-nouveau-therm-remove-ineffective-workarounds-for-alarm-bugs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

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

From: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:33:39 +1000
Subject: drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs

From: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>

commit e4311ee51d1e2676001b2d8fcefd92bdd79aad85 upstream.

These were ineffective due to touching the list without the alarm lock, but should no longer be required.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/base.c   |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fan.c    |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/fantog.c |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/therm/temp.c   |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ nvkm_therm_update(struct nvkm_therm *the
 		poll = false;
 	}
 
-	if (list_empty(&therm->alarm.head) && poll)
+	if (poll)
 		nvkm_timer_alarm(tmr, 1000000000ULL, &therm->alarm);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&therm->lock, flags);
 

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ nvkm_fan_update(struct nvkm_fan *fan, bo
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fan->lock, flags);
 
 	/* schedule next fan update, if not at target speed already */
-	if (list_empty(&fan->alarm.head) && target != duty) {
+	if (target != duty) {
 		u16 bump_period = fan->bios.bump_period;
 		u16 slow_down_period = fan->bios.slow_down_period;
 		u64 delay;

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ nvkm_fantog_update(struct nvkm_fantog *f
 	duty = !nvkm_gpio_get(gpio, 0, DCB_GPIO_FAN, 0xff);
 	nvkm_gpio_set(gpio, 0, DCB_GPIO_FAN, 0xff, duty);
 
-	if (list_empty(&fan->alarm.head) && percent != (duty * 100)) {
+	if (percent != (duty * 100)) {
 		u64 next_change = (percent * fan->period_us) / 100;
 		if (!duty)
 			next_change = fan->period_us - next_change;

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ alarm_timer_callback(struct nvkm_alarm *
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&therm->sensor.alarm_program_lock, flags);
 
 	/* schedule the next poll in one second */
-	if (therm->func->temp_get(therm) >= 0 && list_empty(&alarm->head))
+	if (therm->func->temp_get(therm) >= 0)
 		nvkm_timer_alarm(tmr, 1000000000ULL, alarm);
 }
 

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

queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-ack-interrupt-before-processing-alarms.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-fix-corruption-of-the-pending-list-when-rescheduling-an-alarm.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-avoid-processing-completed-alarms-when-adding-a-new-one.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-mmu-nv4a-use-nv04-mmu-rather-than-the-nv44-one.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-therm-remove-ineffective-workarounds-for-alarm-bugs.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-kms-nv50-skip-core-channel-cursor-update-on-position-only-changes.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-kms-nv50-fix-source-rect-only-plane-updates.patch queue-4.11/drm-nouveau-tmr-handle-races-with-hw-when-updating-the-next-alarm-time.patch