From: Mohammad Heib The TX path currently writes descriptors and then immediately writes to the MMIO doorbell register to notify the NIC. On weakly ordered architectures, descriptor writes may still be pending in CPU or DMA write buffers when the doorbell is issued, leading to the device fetching stale or incomplete descriptors. Add a dma_wmb() in ionic_txq_post() to ensure all descriptor writes are visible to the device before the doorbell MMIO write. Fixes: 0f3154e6bcb3 ("ionic: Add Tx and Rx handling") Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib --- drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c index d10b58ebf603..2e571d0a0d8a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ static void ionic_tx_clean(struct ionic_queue *q, static inline void ionic_txq_post(struct ionic_queue *q, bool ring_dbell) { + /* Ensure TX descriptor writes reach memory before NIC reads them. + * Prevents device from fetching stale descriptors. + */ + dma_wmb(); ionic_q_post(q, ring_dbell); } -- 2.50.1