igbvf: Make next_to_watch a pointer and adjust memory barriers to avoid races
commit3eb1a40f4b6d0c41feb60e55b53d11f70fc8ee8e
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:15:51 +0000 (31 07:15 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:46:51 +0000 (15 21:46 -0800)
tree832de933f9b809bb53ec4071442ebb9d7e300aeb
parente792cd916cf74315bddb2c8b2323ef498cd7bfde
igbvf: Make next_to_watch a pointer and adjust memory barriers to avoid races

This change is meant to address several race issues that become possible
because next_to_watch could possibly be set to a value that shows that the
descriptor is done when it is not.  In order to correct that we instead make
next_to_watch a pointer that is set to NULL during cleanup, and set to the
eop_desc after the descriptor rings have been written.

To enforce proper ordering the next_to_watch pointer is not set until after
a wmb writing the values to the last descriptor in a transmit.  In order to
guarantee that the descriptor is not read until after the eop_desc we use the
read_barrier_depends which is only really necessary on the alpha architecture.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/igbvf.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c