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sfc: Insert read memory barrier after checking MAC statistics flag
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:50:08 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:54:40 +0000 (18:54 -0400)
This prevents speculative reading of the statistics before the
completion flag.

From: Neil Turton <nturton@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c

index 70c681ecdabe69daceef77b06e70e440e5d30bb9..3a5289fe8d1d45768d57a25e4176e1a6c5cf7f6e 100644 (file)
@@ -1953,8 +1953,10 @@ int falcon_dma_stats(struct efx_nic *efx, unsigned int done_offset)
 
        /* Wait for transfer to complete */
        for (i = 0; i < 400; i++) {
-               if (*(volatile u32 *)dma_done == FALCON_STATS_DONE)
+               if (*(volatile u32 *)dma_done == FALCON_STATS_DONE) {
+                       rmb(); /* Ensure the stats are valid. */
                        return 0;
+               }
                udelay(10);
        }