Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sound/core/rawmidi.c b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
index 08d5662039e3..ee601d7f0926 100644
--- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
@@ -1236,6 +1236,28 @@ int snd_rawmidi_transmit(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_rawmidi_transmit);
 
+/**
+ * snd_rawmidi_proceed - Discard the all pending bytes and proceed
+ * @substream: rawmidi substream
+ *
+ * Return: the number of discarded bytes
+ */
+int snd_rawmidi_proceed(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream)
+{
+	struct snd_rawmidi_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int count = 0;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&runtime->lock, flags);
+	if (runtime->avail < runtime->buffer_size) {
+		count = runtime->buffer_size - runtime->avail;
+		__snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack(substream, count);
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&runtime->lock, flags);
+	return count;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_rawmidi_proceed);
+
 static long snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream,
 				      const unsigned char __user *userbuf,
 				      const unsigned char *kernelbuf,