[PATCH 09/14 v5] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use double-buffered writes

Daniel Kurtz djkurtz at chromium.org
Wed Mar 28 05:51:52 PDT 2012


The GMBUS controller GMBUS3 register is double-buffered.  Take advantage
of this  by writing two 4-byte words before the first wait for HW_RDY.
This helps keep the GMBUS controller from becoming idle during long writes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c
index 99a04f8..f02e52a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c
@@ -262,13 +262,6 @@ gmbus_xfer_write(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, struct i2c_msg *msg,
 		   GMBUS_SLAVE_WRITE | GMBUS_SW_RDY);
 	POSTING_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset);
 	while (len) {
-		if (wait_for(I915_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset) &
-			     (GMBUS_SATOER | GMBUS_HW_RDY),
-			     50))
-			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-		if (I915_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset) & GMBUS_SATOER)
-			return -ENXIO;
-
 		val = loop = 0;
 		do {
 			val |= *buf++ << (8 * loop);
@@ -276,6 +269,13 @@ gmbus_xfer_write(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, struct i2c_msg *msg,
 
 		I915_WRITE(GMBUS3 + reg_offset, val);
 		POSTING_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset);
+
+		if (wait_for(I915_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset) &
+			     (GMBUS_SATOER | GMBUS_HW_RDY),
+			     50))
+			return -ETIMEDOUT;
+		if (I915_READ(GMBUS2 + reg_offset) & GMBUS_SATOER)
+			return -ENXIO;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.7.3



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