matroxfb: perform a dummy read of M_STATUS
commit 972754cf 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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