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Re: [PATCH 7/8] rtlwifi: Use write barrier when assigning ownership

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On 05/23/2011 08:54 AM, Mike McCormack wrote:
Make sure all updates to a descriptor are flushed to memory
before assigning ownship to hardware.

Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack<mikem@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c |    2 ++
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c
index 54b2bd5..06d9ddb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ void rtl92ce_set_desc(u8 *pdesc, bool istx, u8 desc_name, u8 *val)
  	if (istx == true) {
  		switch (desc_name) {
  		case HW_DESC_OWN:
+			wmb();
  			SET_TX_DESC_OWN(pdesc, 1);
  			break;
  		case HW_DESC_TX_NEXTDESC_ADDR:
@@ -945,6 +946,7 @@ void rtl92ce_set_desc(u8 *pdesc, bool istx, u8 desc_name, u8 *val)
  	} else {
  		switch (desc_name) {
  		case HW_DESC_RXOWN:
+			wmb();
  			SET_RX_DESC_OWN(pdesc, 1);
  			break;
  		case HW_DESC_RXBUFF_ADDR:

A similar change needs to be applied to rtl8192se. I'll take care of it.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Larry

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