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

    sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()

to the 3.12-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:
     sfc-refactor-efx_mcdi_poll-by-introducing-efx_mcdi_poll_once.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

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


>From foo@baz Mon Jan 13 09:44:41 PST 2014
From: Robert Stonehouse <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:52:43 +0100
Subject: sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()

From: Robert Stonehouse <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 5731d7b35e5b87157a9b9973cc2eff70c50aec58 ]

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct efx_mcdi_async_param {
 static void efx_mcdi_timeout_async(unsigned long context);
 static int efx_mcdi_drv_attach(struct efx_nic *efx, bool driver_operating,
                               bool *was_attached_out);
+static bool efx_mcdi_poll_once(struct efx_nic *efx);
 
 static inline struct efx_mcdi_iface *efx_mcdi(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
@@ -237,6 +238,21 @@ static void efx_mcdi_read_response_heade
        }
 }
 
+static bool efx_mcdi_poll_once(struct efx_nic *efx)
+{
+       struct efx_mcdi_iface *mcdi = efx_mcdi(efx);
+
+       rmb();
+       if (!efx->type->mcdi_poll_response(efx))
+               return false;
+
+       spin_lock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
+       efx_mcdi_read_response_header(efx);
+       spin_unlock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
+
+       return true;
+}
+
 static int efx_mcdi_poll(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
        struct efx_mcdi_iface *mcdi = efx_mcdi(efx);
@@ -272,18 +288,13 @@ static int efx_mcdi_poll(struct efx_nic
 
                time = jiffies;
 
-               rmb();
-               if (efx->type->mcdi_poll_response(efx))
+               if (efx_mcdi_poll_once(efx))
                        break;
 
                if (time_after(time, finish))
                        return -ETIMEDOUT;
        }
 
-       spin_lock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
-       efx_mcdi_read_response_header(efx);
-       spin_unlock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
-
        /* Return rc=0 like wait_event_timeout() */
        return 0;
 }


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

queue-3.12/sfc-refactor-efx_mcdi_poll-by-introducing-efx_mcdi_poll_once.patch
queue-3.12/sfc-poll-for-mcdi-completion-once-before-timeout-occurs.patch
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