The patch titled Spidernet: Memory barrier has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was spidernet-memory-barrier.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Spidernet: Memory barrier From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add memory barrier to make sure that the rest of the RX descriptor state is flushed to memory before we tell the hardware that its ready to go. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/spider_net.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-memory-barrier drivers/net/spider_net.c --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-memory-barrier +++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c @@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(struct spide card->spider_stats.rx_iommu_map_error++; descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE; } else { + wmb(); descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED | SPIDER_NET_DMAC_NOINTR_COMPLETE; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are git-netdev-all.patch spidernet-rework-rx-linked-list.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html