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From: Risto Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fwd: [PATCH 001/002] de2104x: force correct order when writing to rx ring
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:27:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46e1c7760902082327w38719aa9j97e7158b045bc0f9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46e1c7760902071330u10427d33p3f49e82a2e4b1ddc@mail.gmail.com>

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Risto Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/2/7
Subject: [PATCH 001/002] de2104x: force correct order when writing to rx ring
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>


DescOwn should not be set, thus allowing the chip to use the descriptor, before
everything else is set up correctly.

Signed-off-by: Risto Suominen <Risto.Suominen@gmail.com>
---
The testing is done on kernel version 2.6.18.

--- drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c.org     2006-09-20 06:42:06.000000000 +0300
+++ drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c 2009-02-07 15:04:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -465,13 +465,14 @@ static void de_rx (struct de_private *de
                       drop = 1;

 rx_next:
-               de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts1 = cpu_to_le32(DescOwn);
               if (rx_tail == (DE_RX_RING_SIZE - 1))
                       de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts2 =
                               cpu_to_le32(RingEnd | de->rx_buf_sz);
               else
                       de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts2 = cpu_to_le32(de->rx_buf_sz);
               de->rx_ring[rx_tail].addr1 = cpu_to_le32(mapping);
+               wmb();
+               de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts1 = cpu_to_le32(DescOwn);
               rx_tail = NEXT_RX(rx_tail);
       }

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DescOwn should not be set, thus allowing the chip to use the descriptor, before
everything else is set up correctly.

Signed-off-by: Risto Suominen <Risto.Suominen@gmail.com>
---
The testing is done on kernel version 2.6.18.

--- drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c.org	2006-09-20 06:42:06.000000000 +0300
+++ drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c	2009-02-07 15:04:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -465,13 +465,14 @@ static void de_rx (struct de_private *de
 			drop = 1;
 
 rx_next:
-		de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts1 = cpu_to_le32(DescOwn);
 		if (rx_tail == (DE_RX_RING_SIZE - 1))
 			de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts2 =
 				cpu_to_le32(RingEnd | de->rx_buf_sz);
 		else
 			de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts2 = cpu_to_le32(de->rx_buf_sz);
 		de->rx_ring[rx_tail].addr1 = cpu_to_le32(mapping);
+		wmb();
+		de->rx_ring[rx_tail].opts1 = cpu_to_le32(DescOwn);
 		rx_tail = NEXT_RX(rx_tail);
 	}
 

           reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09  7:27 UTC|newest]

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