This patch looks fine, thanks!

Sarah Sharp

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:52:57PM +1100, Matt Evans wrote:
> On weakly-ordered systems, the reading of an event's content must occur
> after reading the event's validity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <m...@ozlabs.org>
> ---
> Segher, thanks for the comment; explanation added.
> 
>  drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
> index 45f3b77..d6aa880 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
> @@ -2152,6 +2152,11 @@ static void xhci_handle_event(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
>       }
>       xhci_dbg(xhci, "%s - OS owns TRB\n", __func__);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Barrier between reading the TRB_CYCLE (valid) flag above and any
> +      * speculative reads of the event's flags/data below.
> +      */
> +     rmb();
>       /* FIXME: Handle more event types. */
>       switch ((le32_to_cpu(event->event_cmd.flags) & TRB_TYPE_BITMASK)) {
>       case TRB_TYPE(TRB_COMPLETION):
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
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