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Message-Id: <1358586155-23322-4-git-send-email-jon.mason@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:02:17 -0700
From: Jon Mason <jon.mason@...el.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Subject: [PATCH 03/21] NTB: correct memory barrier
mmiowb is not sufficient to flush the data and is causing data
corruption. Change to wmb and the data corruption is no more.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@...el.com>
---
drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
index 1d17857..e9666bd 100644
--- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ static void ntb_tx_copy_task(struct ntb_transport_qp *qp,
hdr->ver = qp->tx_pkts;
/* Ensure that the data is fully copied out before setting the flag */
- mmiowb();
+ wmb();
hdr->flags = entry->flags | DESC_DONE_FLAG;
ntb_ring_sdb(qp->ndev, qp->qp_num);
--
1.7.9.5
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