Commit 794867ee authored by Heiner Kallweit's avatar Heiner Kallweit Committed by David S. Miller

r8169: change wmb to smb_wmb in rtl8169_start_xmit

A barrier is needed here to ensure that rtl_tx sees the descriptor
changes (DescOwn set) before the updated tp->cur_tx value. Else it may
wrongly assume that the transfer has been finished already. For this
purpose smp_wmb() is sufficient.

No separate barrier is needed for ordering the descriptor changes
with the MMIO doorbell write. The needed barrier is included in
the non-relaxed writel() used by rtl8169_doorbell().
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 82ebc889
......@@ -4249,8 +4249,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
txd_first->opts1 |= cpu_to_le32(DescOwn | FirstFrag);
/* Force all memory writes to complete before notifying device */
wmb();
/* rtl_tx needs to see descriptor changes before updated tp->cur_tx */
smp_wmb();
tp->cur_tx += frags + 1;
......
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