From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] megaraid_sas: add an i/o barrier Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:41:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20160201204150.GB18440@kroah.com> References: <56AF67B4.2010702@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42091 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932158AbcBAUlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:41:52 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079D620B8A for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:41:52 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56AF67B4.2010702@redhat.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Henzl Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" , "Sumit.Saxena@avagotech.com" , "Desai, Kashyap" , Uday Lingala , stable@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 03:12:04PM +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote: > A barrier should be added to ensure proper > ordering of memory mapped writes. > > V2: - added the barrier also to megasas_fire_cmd_skinny, > as suggested by Kashyap Desai > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl > --- > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 1 + > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.