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authorClaudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>2014-03-24 10:22:55 (GMT)
committerMatthew Weigel <Matthew.Weigel@freescale.com>2014-12-11 18:37:58 (GMT)
commit8c8e0182d2ac7aa4e8fb9424414788db935648cd (patch)
tree956844cf73ce7caaf2e470a3504d714ce8af7bee /drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
parent46fc094f93b41b935291736ef7caa2f97a5d6bc7 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-8c8e0182d2ac7aa4e8fb9424414788db935648cd.tar.xz
gianfar: Replace eieio with wmb for non-PPC archs
Replace PPC specific eieio() with arch independent wmb() for other architectures, i.e. ARM. The eieio() macro is not defined on ARM and generates build error. Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com> --- Cherry-picked from commit: d55398ba81139bc826a8c2417a01280e99f08cf3 --- Change-Id: I6cd072cf6e28fc81a686afab8bc42921da2e5020 Reviewed-on: http://git.am.freescale.net:8181/21172 Tested-by: Review Code-CDREVIEW <CDREVIEW@freescale.com> Reviewed-by: Zhengxiong Jin <Jason.Jin@freescale.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c11
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index 9f49f30..798cb3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -2543,18 +2543,11 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
lstatus |= BD_LFLAG(TXBD_CRC | TXBD_READY) | skb_headlen(skb);
}
- /* The powerpc-specific eieio() is used, as wmb() has too strong
- * semantics (it requires synchronization between cacheable and
- * uncacheable mappings, which eieio doesn't provide and which we
- * don't need), thus requiring a more expensive sync instruction. At
- * some point, the set of architecture-independent barrier functions
- * should be expanded to include weaker barriers.
- */
- eieio();
+ gfar_wmb();
txbdp_start->lstatus = lstatus;
- eieio(); /* force lstatus write before tx_skbuff */
+ gfar_wmb(); /* force lstatus write before tx_skbuff */
tx_queue->tx_skbuff[tx_queue->skb_curtx] = skb;