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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-11-14 13:33:52 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2008-12-29 11:24:17 -0600
commit5919ce29085f4ca080054fde5feef8f8b3405261 (patch)
tree22f7b2620d0128fdd91e0244ae6fb73b443c6ba3 /drivers/scsi
parent4081b77c3a86151d2eaeed9d568a34dd0982ed52 (diff)
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix command timeouts due to cached CRQ access
The CRQs used by the ibmvfc driver are read and written by both the client and the server. Therefore, we need to mark them volatile so that we do not cache their contents when handling an interrupt. This fixes a problem which can surface as occasional command timeouts. No commands were actually timing out, but due to accessing cached data for the CRQ in the interrupt handler, the interrupt was not processing all command completions as it should. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.h16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.h b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.h
index f0c0212a746..526bca743c8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.h
@@ -523,10 +523,10 @@ enum ibmvfc_async_event {
};
struct ibmvfc_crq {
- u8 valid;
- u8 format;
+ volatile u8 valid;
+ volatile u8 format;
u8 reserved[6];
- u64 ioba;
+ volatile u64 ioba;
}__attribute__((packed, aligned (8)));
struct ibmvfc_crq_queue {
@@ -536,13 +536,13 @@ struct ibmvfc_crq_queue {
};
struct ibmvfc_async_crq {
- u8 valid;
+ volatile u8 valid;
u8 pad[3];
u32 pad2;
- u64 event;
- u64 scsi_id;
- u64 wwpn;
- u64 node_name;
+ volatile u64 event;
+ volatile u64 scsi_id;
+ volatile u64 wwpn;
+ volatile u64 node_name;
u64 reserved;
}__attribute__((packed, aligned (8)));