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authorSinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>2018-03-25 10:39:17 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-26 12:47:55 -0400
commitedd874235ac20a04483f15b27251203e9508dec5 (patch)
treeba3bfae798e8789e352faeb9d66fe352aff1a48a /drivers
parentf9442ac498a86b1b0ec383a332be2635fbb1ed98 (diff)
bnx2x: Replace doorbell barrier() with wmb()
barrier() doesn't guarantee memory writes to be observed by the hardware on all architectures. barrier() only tells compiler not to move this code with respect to other read/writes. If memory write needs to be observed by the HW, wmb() is the right choice. Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index d7c98e807ca8..0f86f1850de8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -4153,7 +4153,8 @@ netdev_tx_t bnx2x_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
wmb();
txdata->tx_db.data.prod += nbd;
- barrier();
+ /* make sure descriptor update is observed by HW */
+ wmb();
DOORBELL(bp, txdata->cid, txdata->tx_db.raw);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
index 1e33abde4a3e..39af4f85379d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
@@ -2591,7 +2591,8 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode)
wmb();
txdata->tx_db.data.prod += 2;
- barrier();
+ /* make sure descriptor update is observed by the HW */
+ wmb();
DOORBELL(bp, txdata->cid, txdata->tx_db.raw);
mmiowb();