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    RDMA/nes: Remove volatile qualifier from struct nes_hw_cq.cq_vbase · 31d1e340
    Roland Dreier authored
    Remove the volatile qualifier from the cq_vbase member of struct
    nes_hw_cq, and add an rmb() in the one place where it looks like
    access order might make a difference.  As usual, removing a volatile
    qualifier in a declaration is actually a bug fix, since a volatile
    qualifier is not sufficient to make sure that aggressively
    out-of-order CPUs don't reorder things and cause incorrect results.
    
    For example, a CPU might speculatively execute reads of other cqe
    fields before the NIC hardware has written those fields and before it
    has set the NES_CQE_VALID bit (even though those reads come after the
    test of the NES_CQE_VALID bit in program order), but then when the CPU
    actually executes the conditional test of the NES_CQE_VALID, the bit
    has been set, and the CPU will proceed with the results of the earlier
    speculative execution and end up using bogus data.
    
    This also gets rid of the warning:
    
        drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c: In function 'nes_destroy_cq':
        drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c:1978: warning: passing argument 3 of 'pci_free_consistent' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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