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From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:45 -0600
Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
> driver, but the same issue exists with ixgbevf as well, as the code is
> very similar. read_barrier_depends is not sufficient to ensure
> loads following it are not speculatively loaded out of order
> by the CPU, which can result in stale data being loaded, causing
> potential system crashes.

Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>