stmmac: add memory barriers at appropriate places
authorShiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:54:08 +0000 (20:54 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:47:24 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
This patch, provided by ST SPEAr developers,
has fixed a problem raised on ARM CA9 where
happened that the dma_transmission was enabled before
the dma descriptors were properly filled. To guarantee this
data memory barriers have been explicity used in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c

index d4adc80..c8c9e5b 100644 (file)
@@ -1045,6 +1045,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                                          len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
                priv->tx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
                priv->hw->desc->prepare_tx_desc(desc, 0, len, csum_insertion);
+               wmb();
                priv->hw->desc->set_tx_owner(desc);
        }
 
@@ -1056,6 +1057,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t stmmac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        if (likely(priv->tm->enable))
                priv->hw->desc->clear_tx_ic(desc);
 #endif
+
+       wmb();
+
        /* To avoid raise condition */
        priv->hw->desc->set_tx_owner(first);
 
@@ -1118,6 +1122,7 @@ static inline void stmmac_rx_refill(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
                        }
                        RX_DBG(KERN_INFO "\trefill entry #%d\n", entry);
                }
+               wmb();
                priv->hw->desc->set_rx_owner(p + entry);
        }
 }