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Message-Id: <1371704337-46108-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:58:57 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	kys@...rosoft.com, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drivers: hv: check interrupt mask before read_index

This patches add a read barriers to force the driver to check the interrupt mask
before read_index. Otherwise we may lost a kick to host.

Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
index 791f45d..26c93cf 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static bool hv_need_to_signal(u32 old_write, struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi)
 	if (rbi->ring_buffer->interrupt_mask)
 		return false;
 
+	/* check interrupt_mask before read_index */
+	rmb();
 	/*
 	 * This is the only case we need to signal when the
 	 * ring transitions from being empty to non-empty.
-- 
1.7.1

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