From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com (e31.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e31.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C380F67C17 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:22:11 +1100 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBDLM9SS006547 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:22:09 -0500 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kBDLM7XS551416 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:22:07 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kBDLM6sD024382 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:22:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:22:04 -0600 To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 11/14] Spidernet Memory barrier Message-ID: <20061213212204.GK1915@austin.ibm.com> References: <20061213210010.GR4329@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20061213210010.GR4329@austin.ibm.com> From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Cc: Arnd Bergmann , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens Osterkamp , jgarzik@pobox.com, James K Lewis List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Add memory barrier to make sure that the rest of the RX descriptor state is flushed to memory before we tell the hardware that its ready to go. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas Cc: James K Lewis Cc: Arnd Bergmann ---- drivers/net/spider_net.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.19-git7.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-12-13 14:28:19.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.19-git7/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-12-13 14:28:23.000000000 -0600 @@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(struct spide card->spider_stats.rx_iommu_map_error++; descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE; } else { + wmb(); descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED | SPIDER_NET_DMAC_NOINTR_COMPLETE; }