As currently written, if the driver checks for more work (via gve_tx_poll or gve_rx_poll) before the device posts work and the irq doorbell is not unmasked (via iowrite32be(GVE_IRQ_ACK | GVE_IRQ_EVENT, ...)) before the device attempts to raise an interrupt, an interrupt is lost and this could potentially lead to the traffic being completely halted. For example, if a tx queue has already been stopped, the driver won't get the chance to complete work and egress will be halted. We need a full memory barrier in the poll routine to ensure that the irq doorbell is unmasked before the driver checks for more work. Fixes: f5cedc84a30d ("gve: Add transmit and receive support") Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Awogbemila <awogbemila@google.com> Acked-by: Willem de Brujin <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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