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Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Fix potential Rx ring corruption

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Just letting you know that this patch seems to have resolved an rx
corruption I was seeing when cpu went 100% sirq constantly for several
seconds. I have tested now for about an hour and have not been able to
reproduce the corruption so it seems very promising. I should note
that this is on an ARMv8 processor in case you're interested.

Thanks,
Pushpal

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
<vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When replenishing Rx buffers driver updates the address of the
> buffer and the index of rx buffer in rx ring to the firmware.
> Change in order by CPU can cause rx ring corruption. Add memory
> barrier before updating rx buffer index to guarantee the order.
>
> This could fix some instances of rx ring corruption due to done
> bit in rx attention flag not set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
> index 9c782a4..baa1c44 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ static int __ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n(struct ath10k_htt *htt, int num)
>         }
>
>  fail:
> +       /*
> +        * Make sure the rx buffer is updated before available buffer
> +        * index to avoid any potential rx ring corruption.
> +        */
> +       mb();
>         *htt->rx_ring.alloc_idx.vaddr = __cpu_to_le32(idx);
>         return ret;
>  }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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